ctrl LIVE: Imarhan [Algeria]

Imarhan have always ripped up the rulebook, and they’re coming to enforce this on Saturday, November 7, in Control. Since 2006, the band has challenged preconceptions about the Tuareg desert blues sound known as assouf, popularised by the likes of Tinariwen and Mdou Moctar, by blending its ancient poetry and rhythms with funk, psych-rock and pan-African rhythms. Across three albums, the Algerian g…