Tinariwen announce new album ‘Hoggar’, out March 13th

21.01.2026

Tuareg musical pioneers and Grammy Award–winners Tinariwen today announce their tenth studio album, Hoggar, due out March 13 via the band’s own label Wedge. On the album and more than 45 years into their storied career, the band return to the foundations of their sound. Fierce advocates for their people’s nomadic culture that exists in the desert borderlands between Mali and Algeria, Tinariwen’s bluesy, guitar-driven music has found global acclaim over the past two decades for its lively blend of Tamasheq-language politicism, syncopated rhythms and soaring melody.

On Hoggar, they now stake their claim as elders of this Tuareg musical tradition, going back to their early years of songwriting with acoustic guitars and communal singing around the desert campfire, while also passing the torch onto a younger generation of featured musicians who can continue to keep the flame of rebellion and defiance alive.

Alongside the announcement, Tinariwen also share Hoggar’s first single, “Sagherat Assani,” a traditional Sudanese song featuring soulful, melismatic vocals from Sudanese artist Sulafa Elyas.

“Sagherat Assan” is a traditional song carried from Sudan to the Sahara. Japonais (one of the band founders who died in 2021) and myself were in Al Kufrah (a city at the border between Sudan and Libya) in 1989. At that time, I was beginning to learn the guitar. We met a musician who was playing this song. We loved it so much that Japonais learned it, then played it again and again, allowing it to travel and endure. This version features Sulafa Elyas, an outstanding Sudanese singer and oud player now living in exile in France” - Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni