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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 ...
Ali and Toumani
Label: World Circuit
Released: 2010
Track listing: Ruby; Sabu Yerkoy; Bé Mankan; Doudou; Warbé; Samba Geladio;
Sina Mory; 56; Fantasy; Machengoidi; Kala Djula.
Khaira Arby's New Album and North American Tour
Desert Defiance and Womanly Power: Malian Diva Khaira Arby Invokes the Mystery, History, and Heart of Timbuktu For women, singing can be the road to personal power. When their voice is as strong as Malian vocalist Khaira Arby's, that power can move mountains, change minds, and win battles. Arby's rich, potent sound aims to do just ...
Nels Cline: Of Singers and Sound
by Rex Butters
Mimi Melnick's Salons feature some of Los Angeles' best improvising musicians in the most intimate of settings--her home, at the top of a hillside overlooking the San Fernando Valley. This afternoon's trio tunes, and tests sound levels. Bass wizard and longtime UCLA professor Roberto Miranda banters with veteran drummer Bert Karl, while the group's lanky guitarist, ...
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabete, "Ali and Toumani"
Ali and Toumani contains the final recordings made by a pair of master musicians: the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Tour, who died in 2006, and the Cuban bassist Orlando “Cachato" Lopez, who died last year. But this 11-track album -- the second collection of collaborations by Tour and the Malian kora player Toumani Diabet -- doesn't ...
Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate: Ali and Toumani
by Nenad Georgievski
Profound knowledge of African music is not a must to enjoy Ali and Toumani. This recording is the second collaboration between two legendary Malian artists, the now-deceased Ali Farka Touré and master kora player Toumani Diabaté. Ali Farka Touré has always been a truly exceptional and original guitarist and even in his death he remains the ...
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: I Speak Fula
by Chris May
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba I Speak Fula Sub Pop! 2010 Much has been made of the symbiosis between traditional Malian and roots North American musics, of which the “desert blues" of guitarist Ali Farka Toure (1939-2006) provides convincing evidence. Any remaining doubts about west African savannah-belt culture ...
Edwin Berg / Eric Surmenian / Fred Jeanne: Perpetuum
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
With Perpetuum, Dutch pianist Edwin Berg and his band mates enter an increasingly crowded field: to wit, piano trios that seem, consciously or otherwise, to worship at the shrine of Brad Mehldau. Any number of new-ish pianists on the scene have released records ranging in quality from good to excellent--Aaron Goldberg's Worlds (Sunnyside, 2006); Florian Weber's ...
John Patitucci Trio: Remembrance
by Troy Collins
Grammy-winning bassist John Patitucci's trio recording Remembrance, a heartfelt ode to his heroes and mentors, is the realization of a longstanding dream. Featuring saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Brian Blade, this stripped-down trio originally recorded as a quartet with pianist Brad Mehldau on Patitucci's Communion (Concord, 2001). The seeds for this date were sown when an ...
