Zerzura [Original Soundtrack]

With its bluesy guitar licks, minimalistic approach, and subtle ambient sounds, this gorgeous psychedelic Tuareg album powerfully evokes the wide open spaces and dusty heat of the desert. The album is the soundtrack of the film  Zerzura, and was almost entirely improvised by Ahmoudou Madassane as he watched a rough cut of the film which he also directed and starred in. Like the film, which follows a nomad’s search for a mystical gold city, the soundtrack relies on sparseness and simplicity to conjure a dreamlike psychedelic world.