Tag: World folk music

Tenniscoats: “They literally play themselves to sleep”

Dec 1, 2011

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Jon Wilks

in Interviews, Non-folk interviews, Writing

Back in 2008, I flew to Tokyo to meet Saya, the mercurial vocalist with Tenniscoats. We initially made contact in conjunction with our 4th Tada Sampler, and – truth be told – I’d become something of a Tenniscoats junkie in the interim. Though she’d been delightful in our email correspondence, I found myself vaguely nervous…
Tinariwen and ‘the great game of poesy’

Dec 3, 2010

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Jon Wilks

in Interviews, Non-folk interviews, Writing

‘We are singing about life, the great game of poesy. We are speaking of the truth from and at our eyes… the mode of nomadic life from the Tamashek people we love.’ – Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Tinariwen