Alkibar (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  African Music  »  Mali
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: September 21, 1999
• Label: Nonesuch Records (USA)
• UPC: 075597956726
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106700770
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Personnel includes: Afel Bocoum (vocals, guitar); Ali Farke Toure, Ali Konta (guitar); Guidado Diallo (Njarka violin); Souleye Kane (djembe, calabash).

Includes liner notes by Lucy Duran.

Though the name might be new to some, Afel Bocoum has been plying his trade patiently in Mali for years as Ali Farka Toure's eager apprentice. Though his junior by only a decade or so, the young pretender has learned well, and touches a wide range of powerful sentiments while lulling the listener into an oasis of calm. His debut album winds its way through the styles and cultures of the Malian hinterland, weaving a carpet of lush intertwining chorus responses, bluesy riffs and gravelly vocals over beds of dry percussion and crystalline guitars that tantalisingly mirror the sacred river itself.

The producer Nick Gold used the same location for both Bocoum's album and Toure's NIAFUNKE, and there are clear parallels in the faultless production values and thematic material, Bocoum even adding a second tribute section to his mentor's superb "Dofana." However, unlike his fellow Sonrai tribesman, Bocoum also sings in Tamashek and Fula, something which gives his work vital currency across Western Africa and beyond. Toure has promised his protege that he will entrust Niafunke's musical future to him when he finally retires: if this first offering is anything to go by, it will be in safe hands indeed.

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