My 2014 photoshoot of Songhoy Blues in the Laffiabougou district of the Malian capital, Bamako, which yielding the cover shot of their hit debut ‘Music in Exile’.
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Finding The One – Songlines Review ***** (17/07/2014)
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CD SLEEVE NOTES – ‘Clychau Dibon’ by Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita
MUSIC AND JIHAD IN MALI – “Mali without music is an impossibility”
PHOTO ESSAY – Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita Live
BOMBINO – Revving up beyond the sand
What’s more extraordinary however is Bombino’s fame at home. He’s become a bona fide head-turning airtime-hogging star in his own country, not just amongst the Touareg, who mainly live in Niger’s northern deserts, but amongst the youth of the entire nation. That’s something that no other Touareg artists has ever managed to do, not even Tinariwen.
KINSHASA SYMPHONY – The art of Haydn and debrouillardise
SONGHOY BLUES – “Without patience, nothing is possible”
TINARIWEN – Guitar poets in Nueva York
PHOTO ESSAY – Tinariwen in New York, July 2011
In 2011 I was sent to New York to write a feature on Tinariwen for the Observer. It was one of the hottest summers in decades – wet hot, rather than dry hot. It was a time of extremes for everyone. Here are some photos I took. My feature ‘TINARIWEN – Guitar poets in Nueva York’ is posted on this site.