Bombino's blazing guitar transports Tuareg traditions into the future - a future that is exchanging guns for guitars. This young Tuareg guitarist and songwriter from Agadez, Niger, was raised during an era of armed struggles for independence and violent suppression by government forces. A spirit of young resistance and rebellion shines through on this mesmerizing album. Just thirty years old, Bombino has earned renown throughout the Sahara for his guitar wizardry, and bootleg tapes are traded among music fans like illicit treasures. He has recorded with Keith Richards and Charlie Watts. In his electrifying jams you can hear echoes of fellow Africans Tinariwen and Ali Farka Toure as well as guitar icons Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Page.