till Sverige och Oceanen 24 november och framför sin blandning av stoner-rock med influenser som
, som sammansmälts med traditionella ljudbilder och kapslar in soundet av den nya Tuareg-generationen.
Brussels based Touareg band Kel Assouf is back with a second album Tikounen that will shake the music scene worldwide. Their heavy rock sound – reminding us of
Black Sabbath
and
Queens of the Stone Age
– mixed with African trance rhythms, grinding guitars, vintage keys and the voice of
Toulou Kiki
is unheard. With the new album
Tikounen, which means astonishment, Kel Assouf expresses feelings of perplexity and rage towards a world in which war, injustice and pollution are omnipresent. With one foot in the dessert and the other in Europe,
Anana Harouna
, leader of the band, sings about the
Sahara
,
Niger
and
Europe
. With guitars and a wall of sound Kel Assouf wants to suffocate the sound of missiles and rockets. For the production of
Tikounen, Anana started working with Tunisian producer and musician
Sofyann Ben Youssef
(Bargou08) creating a distinctive tradi-modern sound – some call it a hyper-modern sound – that is both heavy and hypnotic. The new formation is further composed of bass player
Mat Mirol, drummer Olivier Penu
and singer Toulou Kiki, leading actress in Abderrahmane Sissako’s
film
Timbuktu, who enriches the band with a vital female element typical of the Tuareg culture.
LINE UP
Anana Harouna – voice, guitar
Toulou Kiki Bilal – voice, percussion
Sofyann Ben Youssef – keys, bendir
Mathieu Mirol – bass
Olivier Penu – drums
www.kelassouf.com
