Record Details
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Record ID
1605
Artist
Al Farka Toure
Title
Talking Timbuktu
Field / Genre
World
Year Recorded
1994
Label
World Circuit
Pressing
Aus
Rating
***
Discs
1
Media
CD
Date Bought
21 Sep 2004
Cost
¤0.00
Cover Name
—
Review
<p>Guitarist Ali Farka Toure has repeatedly bridged the gap between traditional African and contemporary American vernacular music, and this release continues that tradition. The CD features him singing in 11 languages and playing acoustic and electric guitar, six-string banjo, njarka, and percussion, while teaming smartly with an all-star cast that includes superstar fusion bassist John Patitucci, session drummer Jim Keltner, longtime roots music great Ry Cooder (who doubled as producer), venerable guitarist Gatemouth Brown, and such African percussionists and musicians as Hamma Sankare on calabash and Oumar Toure on congas.</p>— <b>Ron Wynn</b>