Group Inerane

Agadez

Group Inerane is a Tuareg electric guitar band from Agadez, Niger, led by the guitarist Ibrahim Bibi Ahmed. Their music is Tuareg guitar, or tishoumaren, called music of the unemployed by one writer, and it grew from the political cassette music of rebel musicians in Libyan refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s, per Sublime Frequencies. Their label is Sublime Frequencies of Seattle, whose co-founder Hisham Mayet recorded the band. An earlier line-up had two electric guitars, a drum kit and a chorus of vocalists.

Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger), catalog SF034, was their debut international release, a limited LP in 2007 with a CD in 2008. Most of it was recorded live in Agadez in 2004 and 2007; the first track alone comes from the band's archives. Guitars From Agadez Vol. 3 (SF061, 2010) was recorded in a studio in Niamey. In 2010 and 2011 the line-up was Ahmed, Koudede Maman on guitar, Abdulai Koutana Mohamed on bass and Mohamed Lalo Atchinguel on drums. The Wire announced their first European tour on September 6, 2011, and Koudede Maman died a few months afterwards, after which the band effectively ended. Marhajan Bianou, live from the 2011 tour, was released on August 1, 2025 as the first title in Sublime Frequencies' Archive Series.