Tamikrest has been played on NTS in shows including Floating Roofs, featured first on 23 July 2017. Songs played include Tisnant An Chatma, Erres Hin Atouan and Ehad Wad Nadorhan.

Tamikrest are a group of young Touareg musicians from the far north of Mali, where the parched landscape forms part of the Sahara desert. Their name means ‘the knot, junction or coalition’, a reference to the fact that the members hail from different regions, and ‘Adagh’ is another name for the Touareg, who are also referred to by their language, Tamashek.

They’re being dubbed ‘the spiritual sons of Tinariwen’ – the original exponents of the ‘Ishumar…