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Festival In The Desert (Import) (CD)

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DISC 1 for Festival In The Desert (Import) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Super 11 - Takamba Super Onze
2   Buri baalal - Afel Bocoum
3   Tihar Bayatin - Tartit
4   Win My Train Fare Home - Robert Plant
5   Ya Moulana - Sedoum Ehl Aida
6   Jah Kas Cool Boy - So Jo/Django
7   Wayena - Oumou Sangare
8   Karaw - Ali Farka Toure
9   Aldachan Manin - Tinariwen
10   Politique - Adama Yalomba
11   Ariyalan - Tidawt
12   Chameaux - Ludovico Einaudi/Ballake Sissoko
13   Ihama - Kel Tin Lokiene
14   Le Juge Mant - Kwal/Foy-Foy
15   Wana - Tinde
16   Koultouleili-Khalett La - Aicha Min Chigaly
17   Oubilalian - Igbayen
18   Fady Yeina - Bab Salah
19   What Do You See - Blackfire
20   Laisse-Moi Dire - Django
 

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Living Blues (1/04, pp.41-2) - "There are many beautiful moments: the haunting voices and drums of Tartit, the rhythms and guitar virtuosity of Ali Farka Toure's erstwhile protTgT Afel Bocoum, and the cosmic sounds of Mauritania's master guitarist Sedoum Ehl Aida."

Title Note

Audio Mixers: Justin Adams ; Tim Oliver.

Liner Note Author: Andy Morgan.

Recording information: Festival In The Desert, Essakane, Mali (01/06/2003-01/08/2003).

Photographers: Nadia Nid El Mourid; Banning Eyre.

It's the unlikeliest place to imagine a festival, in the Sahara, not far from the Malian town of Timbuktu. But that's the home of the Festival in the Desert, which celebrated its third anniversary in 2003. While it attracts international talent, the real focus is on artists who make their homes in the area, often of the nomadic Tuareg people. But there are others who live locally, like the legendary guitarist Ali Farka Toure, whose village of Niafunke lies just 40 kilometers away, and whose "Karaw" here is a masterpiece of desert funk. But so many of the bands here mine a wonderfully dark, spare, bluesy groove, like Tind‚, or Tinariwen, whose "Aldachan Manin" has a muscular suppleness. Oumou Sangare, one of the great singers from Mali's southern Wassoulou region, brings plenty of raw soul to "Wayena," and kora genius Ballake Sissoko collaborates with Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi for a fascinating piece. America's Blackfire connect the dots between the Sahara and the Arizona deserts, although their punk-inflected rock is a little out of place, but still powerful. Lo' Jo, one of the festival's instigators, team up with Malian Django for a storming version of their "Jah Kas Cool Boy," and with "Win My Train Fare Home," Robert Plant and Justin "Scarecrow" Adams offer a circular blues that fits in perfectly with the other artists. Every performance is outstanding, but even more, they communicate the open nature of the festival, the feeling of what it was to be there on those nights and days in January 2003. And that is what makes this very special indeed, lifting it far above most live albums. This one definitely has the magic, making it simply one of the best live albums ever released. ~ Chris Nickson

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