Ali Farka Toure sonafric LP Mali Tinariwen Mdou Moctar Bombino Tuareg Koudede
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Rare reissue of 500 copies. Out of print.
Please see other listing for FOUR other Ali Farka LPs.
Limited edition.
Label:Sonafric – SAF 50060
A1
Yer Sabou Yerkoy4:40A2
Yer Mali Gakoyoyo4:45A3
Yer Mali Woyo4:10B1
Assidou Dondoma4:35B2
Remobe4:50B3
Yermadine Tiere Kamba4:00
FRANCE LP
Yer Sabou Yerkoy4:40A2
Yer Mali Gakoyoyo4:45A3
Yer Mali Woyo4:10B1
Assidou Dondoma4:35B2
Remobe4:50B3
Yermadine Tiere Kamba4:00
Ali Farka Touré, (Ali Ibrahim Touré), Malian guitarist (born 1939, Kanau, French Sudan [now in Mali]—died March 7, 2006, Banako, Mali), was one of the most renowned artists in African music and a national hero in Mali and all of the African continent. Touré, who as a child acquired the nickname “Farka” (Songhai: “donkey”) for his strong will, perceived music a spiritual calling. He first learned to play traditional instruments, such as the lutelike nkoni and the n’jarka, a single-stringed fiddle, and later took up the guitar. In creating the Mali blues, he fused African musical traditions with the American blues. whose West African roots Touré celebrated. He won one Grammy Award for his collaboration with Ry Cooder (Talking Timbuktu, 1995) and another for the album he made with kora player Toumani Diabate, In the Heart of the Moon (2005). He also appeared in the television documentaries Ali Farka Touré: ça coule de source (2000; Ali Farka Touré: Springing from the Roots) and The Blues (2003). Touré considered himself a farmer and was the mayor of the Malian village of Niafounké.
