Ali Farka Touré - The Source
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Free Music Review: The Straight Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
I Became Aware Of Ali Farka Toure a few years back& I was Vibing Instantly.You Feel The Blues.The Music Connects From Africa toAmerica.it's History&a Reflection of Our Worlds.The Music Reflects The Struggle&The Tones are THe Voices OF Unity.His Genius Brings Many Worlds TOgether.Very Essential&Full Of Life.Free Music Review: How the blues got from Africa to America
Hit: 5 Stars
I own most of Ali Farka Toure's recordings, but this was the first one I bought and, to my mind, still the best. This recording shows how the relationship between African and American music has been bi-directional. The (American) blues stems from African music, but it (as well as American jazz and Latino music) has also sent its influence the other way. You can hear a lot of this cross-fertilization in Ali Farka's music, together with Arab influences.But what does it sound like? Robert Johnson of the Niger? Son House of the Sahel? The guitar playing is clear, penetrating and soulful, the accompaniment is spare, clean and rythmic and the singing is haunting and sublime. In addition to being a great guitarist, Ali Farka is a superb singer. Unless you speak Bambara, you can't understand it, apart from the occasional French bits, but that hardly matters. When you listen to Maria Callas singing La Boheme, you can't understand the words, but the meaning and the feeling come through loud and clear. Ali Farka's singing has the same effect.
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Free Music Review: trancelike guitar traces blues back to the "source"
Hit: 5 Stars
What a gem. In the trancelike guitar lines you can almost hear the seeds of the blues, musical ideas that would travel from West Africa to the Southern U.S. and change music history. Ali Farka Toure takes us back to the source. Beautiful.Free Music Review: Desert Island pick
Hit: 5 Stars
If I was stuck somewhere and only could bring a couple of cd's, this would be one. It just has a great feel. Laid back, but you can still move to it. There's almost a blues feel to it. Just WONDERFUL!