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
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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Festival Ali Farka Touré is a three day event in Bamako, Mali, which celebrates the life and work of Ali, organised by Vieux Farka Touré, son of Ali. To find out more and stay up to date with the festival, which features concerts, presentations and more, make sure you're following their new Facebook page at bit.ly/FestivalAliFarkaTouréFacebook.
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Seeing a performance by the National Ballet of Guinea in 1956 gave Ali his first encounter with the western acoustic guitar, and the conviction that he must master this instrument himself. With no teacher, he created a revolutionary new way of playing.
He developed a taste for a range of imported music, from Afro-Cuban rhythms that were then hugely popular throughout Africa to American rhythm and blues, including James Brown, Albert King, Otis Redding and John Lee Hooker, whose records felt so familiar to Ali that he was surprised to hear them sung in English rather than a local Malian language.
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Ali Farka Touré performs ‘Diaraby’ live on BBC Later... with Jools Holland in 1994.
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