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Niafanke
Ali Farka Toure
Niafanke
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Pop
 
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Ali Farka Toure's first album since his 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, makes a convincing argument for the adage that home is where the art is. Recorded in an abandoned brick edifice located between T...  more »

     
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All Artists: Ali Farka Toure
Title: Niafanke
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Video Arts Japan
Release Date: 12/15/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Pop
Styles: World Dance, Africa
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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Ali Farka Toure's first album since his 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, makes a convincing argument for the adage that home is where the art is. Recorded in an abandoned brick edifice located between Toure's extensive rice fields and the Sahara-bordering village of Niafunké, Mali, this is the guitarist's most purely African album yet. Local percussionists, a sensuous village chorus, and a lonely one-stringed njarka violin accompany Toure here, replacing the Western guests who've tended to stilt his prior records. More relaxed and less gratuitously ornamental than before (especially when he plays acoustically), Toure digs deeply into spare, loping pentatonic grooves that extend beyond the usual John Lee Hooker blues comparisons into territory older, richer, and more folkloric (and Islamic) than earlier records have approached. --Richard Gehr

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Discovering Ali
magnus | chicago | 10/17/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was browsing the international section at the local book store, and I just bought niafunke only after hearing the first three songs. I then bought In the Heart of the Moon, which I have to say is equal to or better than niafunke, because of tumani. I have never wanted to try to emulate an artists sound when I make my own music, but after listening to Ali's music I have tried to capture his sound mixed with my own and have created my first song that has been majorly influenced by one artist. i highly recommend diverse international music. Ali Farka Toure is one you need to have."