Sahara-based ensemble Terakaft titled its 2008 disc “Akh Issudar,” which is drawn from a Temasheq-language proverb. The full phrase means, “Water is life. Milk is survival.” Such axioms about what ...

Launched in 2001 by Tuareg guitarists Keddou Ag Ossad and Sanou Ag Ahmed, founding members of the acclaimed world music outfit Tinariwen, Terakaft has honed a leaner, more stripped-down approach by ...

SOMERVILLE — Many moods spill together, like shifting sands, to create the sound of Terakaft. It feels old and new, peaceful but agitated, joyous and outraged. It is revolution rock born amid violent ...

Following Terakaft at the Speakeasy was Red Baraat, the hottest band in world music. It’s actually a Brooklyn band, but leader Sunny Jain has built their sound atop the traditional horns-and-drums ...

The music of Terakaft, the Saharan group fronted by Sanou Ag Ahmed and Liya “Diara” Ag Ablil, was born of turmoil. An offshoot of the celebrated desert blues outfit Tinariwen (Diara was a longtime ...

Terakaft are a Tuareg family band that play their trance-like desert blues both around campfires in the Sahara and at clubs around the world. The group, whose name means “caravan” in Tamasheq, was ...

Terakaft, the Tuareg desert rock group featuring two members of the pioneering Malian blues rockers Tinariwen, are set to play a one-off show at UPDATE – April 8: Electrowerkz on May 29. The band ...

Terakaft has perfected the songs that launched this desert rock rebellion, with tracks like Aratan N Azawad," which insists that children must study Tuareg language and history, which is written in ...

In the United States, blues music is literally dying as a social art form — we lost another master guitarist of the genre, Magic Slim, just last month. But in Saharan Africa, simultaneously stoked by ...