Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is LifeDouble 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Critically acclaimed Saharan Tuareg group Tinariwen's third album, Aman Iman: Water Is Life, is being reissued on vinyl for the first time. Released internationally in 2007 via Independiente, the album was produced by long time associate Justin Adams and features the voice and guitar of founding member Mohammed Ag Itlale. The GRAMMY winning collective perform a guitar centric branch of Malian music known as Tishoumaren

and unerring hooks

and jumps from dreamy-floaty (the opening number

composed in 1894 for clarinet (or viola) and piano

Howard is a mild-mannered momma's boy whose job running deliveries for a cleaning agency affords him a lot of time out on the road

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of this special album's release

His house burned down

Features all 26 episodes remastered

a Native American elder attempting to keep the peace at that year's heated March for Life rally by beating a ceremonial drum as he moved through the crowds

which brings out the vulnerability and desperation even further

gestures and instrumentation also correspond to the models familiar from baroque musical theater

but elsewhere his melodic and contrapuntal contributions are woven into the fabric of Haydn's score with masterly technique and no small measure of creative inspiration

staying deeply spiritual and focused during even the most casual appearances in mundane limelight