Kel Tinariwen: Vinyl LP Erland Cooper gender-fluid vocals and searing poetry

gender-fluid vocals and searing poetry to take centre stage

like a harpsichord on ‘Micro Cuts’ and Abbey Road recorded strings on ‘Citizen Erased’

but in building more robust ruminations sonically

“I don’t really care for songs that flow just right or have a perfect cadence—I’d rather there be some sort of unnerving element to them

Kel Tinariwen: Vinyl LP Erland Cooper gender-fluid vocals and searing poetryA revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on the bands already rich history. Not having yet developed the fuller band sound that they became internationally established with, Kel Tinariwen features their trademark hypnotic guitar lines and call and response vocals weaving in between raw drum machine rhythms and keyboard