The latest band to make the transition from the rich catalogue of Sublime Frequencies recordings to the live stages of Europe is perhaps the most anticipated of them all, the one we have been waiting for since Guitars From Agadez Vol. 1 first stormed from the speakers and sold out in record time four years ago: Group Inerane.
Simmering up from the rebel heart of the Tuareg guitar scene, Group Inerane are a rough-hewn, tranced-out psychedelic juggernaut careering off the path beaten to the West by their peers Tinariwen and Group Bombino, coursing instead along a thrillingly scuzzed-up parallel lineage to Link Wray, The Velvet Underground and even Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Centred around band leader and six-string god Bibi Ahmed, Inerane hail from Agadez, Niger, one of the most volatile zones in West Africa. Out of this vast, arid land long beset by political unrest comes the Inerane sound, fit to bring tumultuous joy to any party on the globe: ecstatic and electrified Saharan guitar modes entangle/disentangle themselves around mantric vocals and propulsive trap kit drum attack. Genuinely rocking and raw as hell, at points the fuzz descends and Inerane seem to bore their way to the mainline of rock and roll itself.
GROUP INERANE European Tour 2011
NOVEMBER
Fri 11 TRONDHEIM, FRI RESONANS
Sat 12 OSLO, BLA
Sun 13 GOTHENBURG, CLANDESTINO INSTITUT
Tue 15 MALMO, INKONST
Wed 16 COPENHAGEN, MAYHEM
Fri 18 KORTIJK, DE KREUN
Sat 19 KREFELD, SUEDBAHNHOF
Sun 20 ROTTERDAM, WORM
Mon 21 BERLIN, FESTSAAL KREUZBERG
Tue 22 LEIPZIG, NATO
Wed 23 GENEVA, USINE-KAB (ORGANISED BY CAVE12)
Thu 24 LYON, SONIC
Fri 25 PARIS, INSTANTS CHAVIRES
Sat 26 HASSELT, ZAAL BELGIE
Sun 27 UTRECHT, LE GUESS WHO
Tue 29 BRISTOL, THE CROFT
Wed 30 LONDON, PLAN B
DECEMBER
Thu 1 NEWCASTLE, CUMBERLAND ARMS
Fri 2 GLASGOW, KINNING PARK COMPLEX
Sat 3 LEEDS, ASSEMBLY ROOMS
Sun 4 MINEHEAD, ATP CURATED BY JEFF MANGUM
Booking contact: Qu Junktions
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