Ali & Toumani available on September 23 2014 from Amazon for 8.72
UPC bar code 075597980110 ξ1 registered September 23 2014
UPC bar code 075597980110 ξ2 registered September 23 2014
Product category is Audio
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Ali and Toumani is the second and final album pairing the late Malian guitar virtuoso Ali Farka Touré and kora master Toumani Diabaté . Recorded over three afternoons at London's Livingston Studios in 2005, with contributions from the lateOrlando 'Cachaito' Lopez (Buena Vista Social Club) on bass, Ali and Toumani is the follow-up to the duo's Grammy Award-winning 'In the Heart of the Moon.' The new album was produced by Nick Gold and recorded by Jerry Boys, the same production team behind the collaboration's first effort. It is the also the last album recorded by Ali Farka Touré, whopassed away on March 7, 2006.The duo's new release presents their usual playfulness, effervescence, and mastery in further exploration of songs reaching back into both musicians' pasts. 'It wasn't about covering old songs just because there weren't any new ones, nonot at all,' said Diabaté, continuing: 'It was about revealing all the different possibilities once again... I believe this album tobe stronger and wiser, better than 'In the Heart of the Moon.' Simultaneously reverent and informal, this album bringstogether the divergent folk and classical traditions from Northern and Southern Mali, creating a loving homage to the West African nation that is thoroughly appropriate for the late Touré's last recording. In the words of Diabaté, 'what we are doingis very important because we are both, above all, Malians. It's about love, sincerity, and solidarity.'
