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Toure-Raichel Collective to Release Album March 27& Tour In April
The Touré-Raichel Collective, a collaboration between global superstars Vieux Farka Touré of Mali and Idan Raichel from Israel, was forged from a chance encounter at a German airport. Their growing friendship led to a performance at the Tel Aviv Opera House in November 2010. After that remarkable concert, Vieux and Idan, joined by Israeli bassist Yossi ...
Splashgirl: Pressure
by Chris May
Splashgirl Pressure Hubro 2011 This radiant album from Norwegian piano trio Splashgirl is unlike anything that came before it, except, in some measure, its immediate predecessor, Arbor (Hubro, 2009), whose trajectory it develops. Certainly, nothing quite like it has come out of central Europe or the US. An approximate comparative ...
Vieux Farka Toure Returns for US Summer Tour: 16+ Dates
Vieux Farka Touré will be returning to the US for a Summer Tour not to be missed. His third studio album, The Secret, continues to receive rave reviews from Rolling Stone to NPR Music. His live shows have been paired down to a “power trio" consisting of Vieux on vocals/guitar, Mamadou Sidibe on bass, and drummer/multi-percussionist ...
Khaira Arby and Her Band Tour the US in July
Malian Titan Khaira Arby and Her Band return to the US for Summer Tour Triumphant after a successful Spring tour, and receiving the 2011 Tamani D'Or Award (Mali's highest musical honor), Khaira Arby will make a stateside encore for a national tour of the US coming up in July. Arby mesmerized audiences at this year's SXSW ...
Back Home in Mali, Khaira Arby Wins National Award
The Tamani d'Or: Mali Lavishes Love on Crossover Indie Darling and Pioneering Singer Khaira Arby with an Achievement Award It's a rare artist who can take the U.S. media and SXSW by storm while garnering profound respect as a cultural leader in her homeland. And it's even rarer when that artist can keep true to her ...
Vieux Farka Touré: "The Secret" is Out!
Vieux Farka Touré: The Secret Traveling down Linden Blvd towards JFK Airport, Vieux Farka Touré had a realization. Having just left The Bunker recording studio in Brooklyn, he was discussing the sessions with his manager, Eric Herman. A newly constructed song, played in part by his father— the great Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré—came ...
Boubacar Traore CD Release: "Mali Danhou" June 14
Down Home in Bamako: Boubacar Traoré and the Mischievously Subtle Guitar Blues of Mali Denhou Boubacar Traoré took his guitar and strode out into the fields outside of Bamako, Mali. There, in the country quiet, he wrote a dozen new songs in a month. “Town is too noisy. And I didn't go to the bush, but ...
Late Mali Guitarist Lobi Traoré on Live Recordings
We first met the legendary African singer/guitarist Lobi Traoré in one of the many dimly lit, grimy nightclubs of Bamako in Mali. Considered one of Mali's most exciting, original, and enigmatic guitarists, he immediately made an impact. His overdriven amp, ungrounded fuzzbox pedal and the occasional blast of feedback made for a raw electric blues soundscape ...
Sidiki Camara Band: Tolerance
by Jakob Baekgaard
Sometimes music blossoms in the strangest places. For instance, who would have thought that a superior example of Malian funk could be created in Norway? Nevertheless, this is the case with Malian vocalist and master percussionist Sidiki Camara, whose band consists of some of the best jazz musicians on the Norwegian scene. Camara ...
Piers Faccini, New York City, February 9, 2011
by Ernest Barteldes
Piers FacciniLiving RoomFebruary 9, 2011New York, NYOn the opening date of his February 2011 residence at New York City's Living Room, British singer-songwriter Piers Faccini featured mostly music from his recent release, Two Grains of Sand (tôt Ou tard, 2009), a record he describes on his webpage as inspired “by the ...
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