Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate. Ali’s sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, singing in local languages. The result was the creation of a groundbreaking new genre, now well known as the ‘desert blues’, earning him 3 Grammy awards, widespread reverence and the nickname of the ‘African John Lee Hooker’. Listen to his catalogue: worldcircuit.lnk.to/AFTCatalogue
'Voyageur' is out now on CD, LP and digital formats: worldcircuit.lnk.to/AFTVoyageur
Ali Farka Touré
Ali resisted being labeled simply as a “blues” musician in the Western sense. For him, what Westerners call the blues is deeply connected to traditional Songhai / Malian music — his music is “authentic,” and grounded in his heritage, not just an imitation of American blues.
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Words to live by.
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“A Very Important Meeting In the Realm At the Heart Of the Moon"
"Toumani is a child who was born in my hands. I knew Toumani as a child and I also worked a lot with his father, Sidiki Diabaté, who has contributed a lot to sharing traditional culture between Guinea and Mali. I know Toumani as an artist today, and he is someone I admire and whom I will keep on admiring."
Ali Farka Touré on Toumani Diabate
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Wishing a huge Happy Birthday to Ry Cooder, who turns 78 today.
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Ali and Toumani' was released on this day in 2010. Recorded over three afternoons at Livingston Studios, London, in 2005, with contributions from Orlando 'Cachaíto' López on bass, it was the successor to 'In the Heart of the Moon' and the last album recorded by both Ali Farka Touré and Cachaíto López. Nearly two decades later it stands strong as some of Ali's finest work.
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"Then came the collaboration with Ry Cooder. ‘I’ve never been so convinced by another artist,’ Touré says. ‘I’m trying to get him to come to Timbuktu for the New Year. I want to stage an African-American concert to see in the millennium, with me and B.B. King and Carlos Santana. That would be something. People call my music the Africa blues. I just call it the music of the people."
Ali on his New Year plans, talking to Songlines Magazine in 1999. What might have been!
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Ali and his teenage music group ❤️
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Two titans of West African music.
Listen to In the Heart of the Moon by Toumani Diabeté and Ali Farka Touré today.
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'Voyageur' has been lovingly compiled by Vieux Farka Touré, son of Ali, and World Circuit Records' Nick Gold, Ali’s long-time producer. Pre-order your copy today at worldcircuit.lnk.to/AFTVoyageur.
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