Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré and American guitarist/producer Ry Cooder … Read Full Bio ↴Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré and American guitarist/producer Ry Cooder in 1995 joined forces to record the Grammy award-winning album Talking Timbuktu.
Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, who was 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 is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, who was 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.
Ai Du
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@cinemamelia
I’m convinced this is the most sensual song ever written.... and even for its length, still goes by too fast.
@Lindin80
On loop! On loop! I've just orgasmed at hearing it and i know that you know what I mean? Can you understand what he says? I'm dying to know!
@bellcode2423
Yeah this music make you drink wine 🍷 sway dancing wave water 🥰😂
@southgooner
Thanks for uploading this!! Talking Timbuktu has always been in a league of its own, for me! Can't get enough of listening to it!
@zaraaj1
nothing compares to the sound of the blues. pure, raw and sexy.
@jazzytds
A slow sip of the most inebriating concoction, a potion of heartfelt, enigmatic soul...this is audible joy.
@claudilenesantos4115
Música linda, fantástica gostoso de se ouvir. Me encanta!!!
@jpduncan1780
This is pure musicspeak perfection and it delivers its own sense of bliss every single time.
@ripevanwinkle494
Just discovered this piece of art and it brought a tear to my eye. God damn i love some good blues.
@abouly3604
I can’t get enough listening this sound I feel it deeply in my heart