JUSTIN ADAMS...from UK
& JULDEH CAMARA...from Gambia on the one stringed fiddle known as a ritti
From the superb CD "SOUL SCIENCE"
"YA TA KAAYA"
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Reply to this BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA...Ngoni maestros from Mali
One of my favourite artists from the Festival au Desert at Timbuktu...beautiful lyrical tunes...and superb slideshow...takes me back to Mali...travelling up the Niger...aahhh.
"BALA" from the "SEGU BLUE" CD...enjoy
Reply to this LOOK WHAT I FOUND...!!!...I WAS HERE...!!!
A taste of THE FESTIVAL AU DESERT 2011...AT TIMBUKTU!!!
Reply to this TAMIKREST
Brilliant Desert Blues...from Mali...another of the mesmerising Tuareg bands...trilling...driving blues
"AICHA"
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Reply to this AFEL BOUCOM
Great video of a great Malian guitarist...member of Ali Farke Toure's band for 30 years...since the age of 13...both lived in Niafunke...mud city of 100,000 on the Niger.
Ali hailed Afel as his successor...bought his "Afel Boucom & Alkibar" CD called "Tabital Pulaaku" in Bamako...my first CD purchase in Mali!
Then I got his first CD "Alkibar"...which became the name of his band after that.
Here is AFEL BOUCOM'S story...even a rap from Ali Farke Toure himself
"ALKIBAR"
Reply to this ALI FARKE TOURE & TOUMANI DIABATE
Grammy Award Winners with their "In the Heart of the Moon" CD
But my favourite is their second CD..."Ali & Toumani"...just before Ali died
A Bobo song...Ali on guitar...Toumani on kora (African gourd harp)
The exquisitively beautiful..."RUBY"
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Reply to this TIKEN JAH FAKOLY...African Reggae
"AFRICAN REVOLUTION"...worth it for the stunning portraits
Bought this CD from Mr CD at Kouriome on the Niger River, Mali
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Reply to this ALI FARKE TOURE & BASSEKOU KOUYATE
"AMANDRAI"
Nice smooth groove
Reply to this LE TRIO JOUBRAN...from Palestine
The brothers of the Oud...blew me away at Womadelaide 2012
"LAYTANA"
Reply to this ETRAN FINATAWA...from NIGER
Watabe & Tuareg band...when they came on the stage at the Festival au Desert at Timbuktu...I was in front of the stage with the Tuareg, Songhai & Felani...camel dancing...way to go...
"ILEDEMAN"
Reply to this THE CRUEL SEA...Tex Perkins & the boys...from OZ
Cool grooves
"TOO FAST FOR ME"
"THREE LEGGED DOG"
Reply to this Dave here.....the links and threads have been amazing. Spending some quality time pouring through the wonderful music and amazed by the talent around us.
As an American, I would like to share some serious blues that I hope you will all enjoy. Cheers.
Reply to this CLASSICALLY BLUE
Geoff Acheson on guitar, Adrian Keating on violin & my mate from my youth, Steve Sampson on bass
"MY TURN TO LOSE"
Reply to this YOTHU YINDI
Turn it up...then a little more..."TREATY"
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Reply to this BOUBACAR TRAORE
Often called "The Bluesman from Mali"
"KARKAR" from the CD of the same name
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Reply to this FODE BARO ... from Guinea ... very cool
"ZOUK MANDINGUE"
Reply to this BAKO DAGNON from Mali
"TITATI"...The splendours of women....brilliant groove...from the CD of the same name
Reply to this Now...some Nigerian Psychedelic Funk...don't come cooler than this
WILLIAM ONYEABOR
"BETTER CHANGE YOUR MIND" ...You ever think this world is yours?
Reply to this BUDDY GUY, JONNY LANG & RONNY WOOD
Withering guitar solos from three masters...together just this once...simply brilliant
As Buddy says "I don't know how you feel...but I feel I am in Heaven"
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