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.
Piny Runa Woko
Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder Lyrics
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Geoffrey Oryema Mojique sees his village from a nearby hill Mojique thinks o…
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ryandavid
In this world of pain and suffering we have all made with our own human hands, his music is a ray of light and love.
soultenebrae
No need to understand the lyrics, Just feel the music. Geoffrey is incredible!
Stephen D
incredible song...i can't believe my ears! the same level as Makambo which is the best song ever written. I just love it. so sweet and sad and all the things I love in a song. btw why no pics?! dj
Valerie
wonderful....just wonderful :)
francois van der merwe
PLEASE CAN we get a translated version of this.?
Roland Besong
R.i.p
allyourisms
you are loved
hildegunst von mythenmetz
love to you from here.i want to marry mr oryema. namaste from germany
Mod' Jo
jsmc563 , take it easy it's just beautifull* you're not african, so just listen ;)