Tamikrest

" ...Tamikrest is a cutting-edge 21st-century rock group that just happens to live in the middle of one of the world’s most remote deserts..."

“The heaviest desert rock-out yet … Tamikrest’s music blazes with a righteous intensity that is almost scary.”

Tamikrest is tamasheq for junction, connection. Since the group members come from different regions of the world, it’s an ideal word to describe the band. Their music is a tribute to the Touareg identity, spiced up with modern rock influences. Lyrics are about the never-ending longing to a free world. Through the message of their songs, Tamikrest wants to make Tamasheq poetry and culture accessible to inhabitants of a world larger than the immensity of the Saharian desert.

“A desert hosts us, a language unites us, a culture binds us.”