Terakaft 'a symbiosis of tradition and modernity

Anyone who has ever sniffed the air of the Sahara, the experience silence, kennen- the width of the supposedly hostile desert and love has learned and has gone with the wandering Tuaregs within touching distance, comes to the sounds of the group 'Terakaft' not around.
The band's name in the Tuareg language Tamashek means 'caravan'.
Members of the group from Mali sit down with their texts and notes for the rights of its proud people with a long history and tradition. Your weapons they wore as rebels as freedom fighters proud a few years ago, they replaced by guitars. Well Succeeded, in my opinion.

The disk surprised by the sounds of three guitars and a bass, are played masterfully and a bit of Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Touré with 'Talking Timbuktu' reminiscent. The rhythm is partly 'as the nightly bonfires in the desert is common' clapping hands or played on various percussion instruments.
Tamashek very interesting-sounding language of Lyriks exerts an almost magical-looking influence on the audience and raises suspicions of Sufi chants.
The lyrics tell of survival in the Sahara by the element of water, the love of the desert, the cohesion of the people with each other, the friendship and love. It is sung in addition to the fight for survival in the desert and the fight against the destruction of the people. The history of the Tuaregs, political borders, which restrict the roving nomadic people, and suppression by the single political regime here in the music expression and probably a valve.

What genre is it now 'Terakaft' associate? Desert Blues? World music? Revolutionary desert music?
Difficult to say. Anyway, the music is far from the mainstream. Well Succeeded is the rebel music at most: live on stage as well as audible on the CD 'Akh Issudar'.
Anyway - I let 'Terakaft' as the are, what it is: music, the ear and heart touching, brings us a piece of the African continent musical detail and draws attention to the problems of the same tribe.