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Ali Farka Toure: Savane (World Circuit/Elite)

The late Toure was one of the greatest singer-songwriters to emerge out of the musically fertile region around Mali in the last century. The area -- from which numerous slaves were taken to the United

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Vieux Farka Toure; Vieux Farka Toure (World Village) BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2007

...enough this wasn't the case with the late Ali Farka Toure from Mali who actively discouraged his son...

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Ali Farka Toure/Toumani Diabate: In the Heart of the Moon (Elite)

In world music circles Malian guitarist Toure and kora player Diabate, are acknowledged geniuses, and Toure’s playing and sandpaper vocal style have drawn comparisons with Delta blues musicians.

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate: Ali and Toumani (World Circuit)

...the great guitarist Ali Farka Toure from Mali died in late 2005 he left an...

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Khruangbin/Vieux Farka Toure: Ali (digital outlets)

...Farka Toure, son of the late and legendary Ali Farka Toure, the band were thrown by Vieux into...

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Rokia Traore: Tchamantche (Lateral Note/Southbound)

...of which has appeared at Elsewhere: the late Ali Farka Toure and his son Vieux, Toumani Diabate, Salif...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE WORLD MUSIC QUESTIONNAIRE: Oumou Sangare

...in Britain after a recommendation by the late Ali Farka Toure. Her songs frequently prod the conscience...

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Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba: Segu Blue (Out Here/Elite)

...death in March 2006 of the great Mali musician Ali Farka Toure -- who reached a global audience in the mid...

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RY COODER INTERVIEWED (2009): Dry, wry and moving right along

...Riders. He has recorded with Mali guitarist Ali Farka Toure and Cuban Manuel Galban, worked with John Lee... ...a lot of one-off projects with people such as Ali Farka Toure and [Indian slide guitarist] VH Bhatt. Do... ...and said, ’Do you want to record with Ali Farka Toure, do you know who he is?’ and I said,...

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Various: Marabi Africa 2 (Marabi)

...(Malouma again, El Hadj N'Diaye, the late Ali Farka Toure with Boubacar Traore) as well as some names...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2008: Toumani Diabate: The Mande Variations (World Circuit/Elite)

...Diabate who learned from the late guitarist Ali Farka Toure also from his homeland (there is a track here...

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Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Desert Blues (Rough Guide/Southbound)

...here); old hands Etran Finatawa and the late Ali Farka Toure; the great Malouma; Mariem Hassan; Bassekou...

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Mamadou Diabate: Courage (World Village)

As the son of kora player N'fa Diabate who was a founder of the Instrumental Ensemble of Mali and with the great Toumani Diabate as a cousin, Mamadou was born to play the kora. For this, his fifth alb

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WOMAD NEW ZEALAND 2013: When the world comes to town

...world. The son of the great Malian musician Ali Farka Toure, Vieux Farka Tour clearly had a huge shadow to...

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Ry Cooder: My Name is Buddy (Warners)

...Manuel Galban (Mambo Sinuendo) and the late Ali Farka Toure from Mali (Talking Timbuktu) -- Cooder has...

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Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba: Jama ko (Out Here/Southbound)

...Segu Blue album. Formerly a member of the late Ali Farka Toure's inner circle, Kouyate has continued to...

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Ssewa Ssewa: Nva K'la (ARC Music/Southbound/digital outlets)

...slower and seductive sounds of King Sunny Ade, Ali Farka Toure and the soukous style out of Zaire. . You can...

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THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2013: THE EDITOR'S TOP 30

...player Kuyate learned from being in the late Ali Farka Toure's group and, like that master, pulls out...

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Oumou Sangare: Seya (World Circuit/Elite)

...from. She was given a career boost by the late Ali Farka Toure and took her sound to Africa and then Europe...

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TARANAKI WOMAD 2015; THE ARTISTS' LINE-UP

Longtime Elsewhere readers will know that we here always keep our ears on what the rest of the planet is doing . . . hence our longstanding World Music pages where international albums are reviewed, a

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Various: The Rough Guide to Africa Blues (Elite)

...Etran Finatawa, by Corey Harris with the late Ali Farka Toure (from his Mississippi to Mali album), Bob...

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Amadou and Miriam: Welcome to Mali (Warners)

...of whom have appeared at Elsewhere: the late Ali Farka Toure and his son Vieux Farka Toure, Oumou Sangare,...

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Various Artists: The Rough Guide to African Blues (Rough Guide/Southbound)

...appear here, a couple of them (Nuru Kane, Ali Farka Toure) now much better known than they were back... ...Djeli Moussa Diawara and Corey Harris with Ali Farka Toure. Whenever you came to the music called either... ...has some high profile names (the late Ali Farka Toure, Nuru Kane, Tamikrest, Bombino) it still...

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ETRAN FINATAWA INTERVIEWED (2006): From sands to stadiums

...like music from Mali, they like to listen to Ali Farka Toure, Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, Habib Koite and...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE WORLD MUSIC QUESTIONNAIRE: Wade Schuman of Hazmat Modine

...play?) Do they have to be alive? If not, then Ali Farka Toure If they have to be alive it would be Abdel...

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Dee Dee Bridgewater: Red Earth, A Malian Journey (Universal)

...whose names are becoming familiar: the late Ali Farka Toure and now his gifted son Vieux Farka Toure;...

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Thione Seck; Orientissime (Elite) BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2007

There are some who think that "world music" is corrupted by outside influences, and that the folk musicians of various parts of the globe should be time-locked so as to retain some degree of

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El Hadj N'Diaye: Geej (Marabi)

This Senegalese singer-guitarist (here recorded in Paris) has one of those mesmerisingly soulful voices which, even though you probably don't understand a word, pulls you in. His lyrics address social

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Oliver Mtukudzi: Wonai (Elite)

Known as "Tuku" after the style of music he created, singer-guitarist Mtukudzi from Zimbabwe battles the usual problem that musicians from Africa face: if Peter Gabriel isn't behind you or y

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The Rail Band: Soundiata (Southbound)

The Rail Band is one of the cornerstone groups out of Mali and launched the careers of Mory Kante and Salif Keita. I first heard them maybe 20 years ago when a salty old journo read something I had wr

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Habib Koite and Bamada: Afriki (Cumbancha/Elite)

Music from Mali doesn't come much more mesmerising or mellow than this consistently laidback series of songs by one of that country's most inventive and musically curious griots. For this album, recor

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Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra: Boulevard de l'Independence (/Elite)

Copies of this uplifting album by Diabate from Mali come with an intelligent and interesting DVD-doco which shines a light on the culture of the griot -- a caste of hereditary musicians-cum-storytelle

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Djelimady Tounkara: Solon Kono (Harmonia Mundi)

Guitarist Tounkara sometimes spins off notes like an avant-garde guitarist (he is admired by New York's Bill Frisell who has performed with him) but for this album he gets back onto acoustic guitar to

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Tcheka: Nu Monda (Harmonia)

One of the chief delights of being in Elsewhere is that music usually comes with no promotional blasts or advance reviews, so you make the discovery for yourself. It often comes from people you've nev

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Orchestra Baobab: Made in Dakar (World Circuit/Elite)

The reissue six years ago of this Senegalese band's 1982 sessions Pirate's Choice thrust this exceptional outfit into the world music spotlight where it remains to shine and gleam. They released the e

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