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It's the Birthday of Ali Farka Toure
2008-10-30 13:00:00 Ali Farka Toure SavaneClick image for Amazon.comAli Ibrahim ?Farka? Touré (October 31, 1939 ? March 7, 2006) was a Malian singer and guitarist.According to Wikipedia;Ali Ibrahim ?Farka? Touré (October 31, 1939 ? March 7, 2006) was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent?s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues. The belief that the latter is historically derived from the former is reflected in Martin Scorsese?s often quoted characterization of Touré?s tradition as constituting "the DNA of the blues". Touré was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
By: SqueezeMyLemon
Mali, Guinea: Ali Farka Toure lives on!
2008-05-08 15:14:00 Posted by sociolingo on May 8, 2008 I know a lot of you guys already know this, but I am finding out what a rich source of cultural material YouTube is! Whilst trying to get together a post on a Jazz festival in Guinea in honour of the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, who sadly died ...
Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu [1994]
2008-05-04 17:10:00 Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing similarity to that of John Lee Hooker or even Canned Heat. It's a mono-chordal vamp, with repetitive song lines cut with shards
Ali Farka Toure - Savane [2006]
2007-12-14 10:20:00 Track List: 1.Erdi 2.Yer Bounda Fara 3.Beto 4.Savane 5.Soya 6.Penda Yoro 7.Machengoidi 8.Ledi Coumbe 9.Hanana 10.Soko Yhinka 11.Gambari Didi 12.Banga 13.N?Jarou ***MERKEZ BURASI MUSIC CENTER***
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
2007-01-04 23:09:02 By the time your average listeners get around to the slow, elemental backbeat of “Ai Du,” all of their preconceptions about chickens and eggs, roots and fruits or bluesmen and griots have been blurred and obscured by the enchanting music that makes up ‘Talking Timbuktu ‘. It’s all in there: the droning traditional timbres of [...]
ALI FARKA TOURE
2006-12-17 20:35:00 EL BLUES AFRICANO.¿Es el blues una música surgida entre los negros de Estados Unidos? Así parece ser, pero el vídeo que vais a ver apunta en la dirección contraria. Desde ese país hemos saltado hasta Mali, en África, un territorio polvoriento, invadido por el Sahara. Aquí es donde vivía, cantaba y tocaba la guitarra Alí Farka Toure, el bluesman africano, fallecido en marzo de este año. Su historia es la de un hombre de familia noble que decide dedicarse a la música de forma autodidacta, tarea que combina con sus labores de granjero, a las que no quiere renunciar, aunque llega a ganar un Grammy por su disco Talking Timbuktu..Ahora sus huellas son seguidas por su hijo, Vieux, que continúa el mismo estilo de su padre. Os recomiendo que cuando terminéis de ver el vídeo, salgáis corriendo a comprar el disco Nianfunké (por cierto, el poblado donde vivía Alí). No os arrepentiréis. |
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