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Talking Timbuktu | 
 enlarge | Artists: Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder
Label: Hannibal
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 1271
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 571381
UPC: 031257138123
EAN: 0031257138123
ASIN: B00000062H
Release Date: March 29, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Bonde | | • | Soukora | | • | Gomni | | • | Sega | | • | Amandrai | | • | Lasidan | | • | Keito | | • | Banga | | • | Ai Du | | • | Diaraby |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing similarity to that of John Lee Hooker or even Canned Heat. It's a mono-chordal vamp, with repetitive song lines cut with shards of blistering solo runs that shimmer like a desert mirage. Toure may be conversant with some blues artists, but it is unlikely that artists like Hooker or Robert Pete Williams ever heard these Malian roots, which makes the connection so uncanny. Ry Cooder, well versed in domestic and world guitar styles, is the perfect counterpoint in these extended songs/jams, his sinewy slide guitar intertwining with his partner's in a super world summit without barriers or borders. --Derek Rath
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| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
 Best of two worlds September 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this CD because of Ry Cooder. I've loved his music since first hearing on the soundtrack for "Paris Texas." I'm also very much into indigenous and ethnic music and am happy to have discovered Ali Farka Toure in this CD. Sometimes slow, sensual, hypnotic, and bluesy like the songs Amandria (my favorite) and Ai Du, and sometimes more rhythmic with a strong beat that you want to get up and dance to, the music on this CD grabs you every which way. Ali Farka Toure's rich voice also adds another dimension to the quality of this CD, on top of the music itself. And every song is top notch. It's rare for me to like every song on a CD, but I love every song. It doesn't disappoint on any level.
 This is the blues Dream Team July 20, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Talking Timbuktu" is one of those CDs where you have an aha moment. Oh yes, you have heard this music before and yet, not quite. Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure play beautifully together and truly bring the Mali's music straight to us. This is an extremely listenable CD and well worth the price.
Cool music May 13, 2007
This is really good music. A combination of blues, African, something I cannot put a description to. Each person has to experience this to see what it means to him (her).
AFT at his best April 3, 2007
As usual, this is another spectacular disc, only made better by the addition of Ry Cooder.
Fabulous Music March 26, 2007
This CD is just fabulous and everyone who hears it wants a copy. Very sophisticated yet original music,
soothing and exciting sound.
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