In exile from his city in Northern Mali singer/songwriter Ahmed Ag Kaedy returns to the origins of Tuareg folk with sessions of stripped down solo acoustic guitar. Mellow pentatonic notes dance over plaintive vocals intimate and close mic d endearing in their simplicity. Drifting from melancholic ballads and pleas for peace Akaline Kidal is a politically charged and poignant recording for a community ripped apart by division and civil war.