ALI FARKA TOURE

ALI FARKA TOURE
THE SOURCE (1991)
256/320 KBSPS

African guitarist Ali Farka Toure's previous releases were wonderful mixes of traditional language and rhythms being supported by contemporary concerns, instrumentalists, and producers. Source features his working band backing Toure in a series of impassioned, animated tunes that are done in both his native tongue and English. The similarity between Toure's sparse playing and percussive writing and early blues songs has been noted. What also deserves mention is the cohesive qualities his band have and the way his electric and acoustic playing, with its light, frilly air, fills in the spaces underneath his vocals easily.

1. Goye Kur
2. Inchana Massina
3. Roucky
4. Dofana
5. Karaw
6. Hawa Dolo
7. Cinquante Six
8. I Go Ka
9. Yenna
10. Mahini Me