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Released: 1994-03-29
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Title Tracks for Talking Timbuktu
- 1. Bonde
- 2. Soukora
- 3. Gomni
- 4. Sega
- 5. Amandrai
- 6. Lasidan
- 7. Keito
- 8. Banga
- 9. Ai Du
- 10. Diaraby
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Guitar greats of two continents, Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure, collaborate on this session that crosses cultural boundaries from delta blues to Malian dialects.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: TOURE/COODER
Title: TALKING TIMBUKTU
Street Release Date: 03/29/1994
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Genre: ROCK/POP
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: TOURE/COODER
Title: TALKING TIMBUKTU
Street Release Date: 03/29/1994
Genre: ROCK/POP
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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. --Derek Rath
Product Details
Talking Timbuktu
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1994-03-29)
- Publisher: Hannibal
- Label: Hannibal
- Studio: Hannibal
- Average Customer Review: based on 55 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #5417
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Summary: Ali and Ry 2010-02-04
Comment: This CD was bought after seeing the film 'Unfaithful' (the 'Unfaithful' soundtrack does not include all music in the film), which included a track by Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder. The rest of the CD is great and I find myself humming the tunes all the time. A fantastic joining of talent.
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Summary: Exciting mix of blues and Malian music 2009-11-21
Comment: I bought this CD at the same time as the one named Ali Farka Toure because I couldn't decide between the two. It is a good combination. The other album is acoustic and a small number of musicians and types of instruments. Here the guitars are electric as well as acoustic, and there is a type of flute and more drums and other Malian instruments. The bluesy element is more apparent on some numbers due to Ry Cooder's influence, I suspect, as well as the dragging rhythm similar to that associated with John Lee Hooker, but others are distinctively African. One of the songs, Soukora, was popular even as far away as East Africa, where I heard it often, and is a personal favorite. The songs are very interesting both vocally and rhythmically and the instrumentation is excellent.
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Summary: Five Stars Are Not Enough 2009-10-17
Comment: As a classical musician, my personal listening experiences often get limited to a different sphere than the world of this artist. A friend introduced me to Toure with this album and I'm overwhelmed. I do not find it merely entertaining. There is an other-worldly, magical quality which shakes me to my musical roots. It's as if I have seen music as it used to exist many thousands of years ago, now being spoken in the present day in a language that I recognize instantly.
This is music reaching beyond the drama of the individual and purely personal emotion, beyond even hope, ambition and certainly fear of any kind. A friend of mine works on Wall Street and I've recently wondered what would happen if the Ninth Symphony and the B Minor Mass were played during work hours there. I now earnestly hope that that industry puts down its telephones and looks away from its computers to listen to music from an artist like Toure. And I wish our fractious America as a whole would listen in as well.
This is music reaching beyond the drama of the individual and purely personal emotion, beyond even hope, ambition and certainly fear of any kind. A friend of mine works on Wall Street and I've recently wondered what would happen if the Ninth Symphony and the B Minor Mass were played during work hours there. I now earnestly hope that that industry puts down its telephones and looks away from its computers to listen to music from an artist like Toure. And I wish our fractious America as a whole would listen in as well.
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Summary: Superb! 2009-08-14
Comment: I haven't been this pleased with an album in its entirety in a long time.
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Summary: Alittle out there 2009-02-22
Comment: I got this CD because I liked the song from the movie, "Unfaithful". I like a couple of other tunes also..very unique CD..and love the guitar.
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