Name: Talking Timbuktu
Brand: Ali Farka Toure

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WCV40

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

UK Import, 180 Gram

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2015-03-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Lasgo

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060091556546

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Ali Farka Toure

Genre US

African

Label US

World Circuit

Ali Farka Toure's album<i> Talking Timbuktu</i>. Available here on Double LP.

'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 of blistering solo runs that shimmer like a desert mirage. Toure may be conversant with some blues artists, but it is unlikely that artists like Hooker or Robert Pete Williams ever heard these Malian roots, which makes the connection so uncanny. Ry Cooder, well versed in domestic and world guitar styles, is the perfect counterpoint in these extended songs / jams, his sinewy slide guitar intertwining with his partner's in a super world summit without barriers or borders.

Talking Timbuktu

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