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Red & Green (CD)

By: Ali Farka Toure (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Red & Green (CD) Album By Ali Farka Toure (Artist)
1   La Drogue
2   Ali Aoudy
3   Cherie
4   Timbindy
5   Lalerche
6   Katine
7   Laisse Les Phases
8   Baliky Lalo
 
DISC 2 for Red & Green (CD) Album By Ali Farka Toure (Artist)
1   Sidi Gouro
2   O Kata Gouna
3   Devele Wague
4   Numbara
5   Zona
6   M'baudy
7   Petenere
8   L'Exode
 
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Review

Down Beat (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Toure's music falls into a stream-of-consciousness groove, deftly employing repetition and chanting over a lilting beat."
Dirty Linen (p.49) - "[I]t is the brilliance and vitality of the music that matters. These classic recordings rank among the most striking to come out of Africa in the last 30 years."

Title Note

Personnel: Ali Farka Toure (vocals, guitar); Hammer Sankare (vocals); Ousmane Gadjaka (guitar); Boubacar Hamadoun Farana (griot).

By the mid '90s, Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure was expanding his signature acoustic African blues by changing his instrumental palette and collaborating with Western musicians like Ry Cooder (as on 1994's TALKIN' TIMBUKTU). While Toure gained prominence during this period, many diehard fans tout the artist's earliest work as his strongest. The double-disc set RED & BLUE brings together two albums originally released by the French label Sonodisc between the mid '70s and mid '80s. The original vinyl versions were long out of print and difficult to find, until their issue here on Nonesuch.

Both albums are entirely acoustic (Toure didn't introduce an electric guitar until 1991's THE SOURCE), with minimal accompaniment on calabash and ngoni (a traditional four-string guitar), which perfectly complements Toure's percussive guitar style and plaintive, keening vocals. The music bears a striking resemblance to the modal blues of American artists like Son House and John Lee Hooker, yet it is deeply West African, with scales and motivic flourishes indigenous to the culture, and lyrical themes that reflect Toure's life in rural Mali. RED & BLUE is a must for Toure fans: a blissful, early dose of this singular artist's superb music.

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