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fRoots, March 2003
Reminiscent of Skip James, he blended a soft vocal roughness with nimble and generally minimal finger-picked guitar, that suddenly erupted into virtuoso outbursts of complex runs and scales. Absolutely the real thing: anything but glossy and always powerfully emotional. Since then there have been several albums all consistently excellent and varying little in style. But this one is slightly different--the soundtrack to a film by Jacques Sarasin: a journey across Mali with Kar Kar, meeting and playing with such musicians as Ali Farka Touré, kora player Ballaké Cissokho and balafonist Kélétigui Diabaté.
Most of the music is recorded live and unadorned, though one track is a studio job with Rokia Traoré and group. Throughout it's spellbinding. Kar Kar playing and singing with more ease and élan than ever, a man at the peak of his form. And, so baldly and frankly recorded, we are as close to the music and its maker as any listener could wish. --Rick Sanders
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the music itself is of a very high quality, mixing the blues and more traditional mali music perfectly to form something which to the western ear is wonderfully relaxing, somewhat like those relaxation tapes of sea sounds, but with high quality music instead. Nor is it all the same artist, for whilst Traore features on all tracks he plays a number of duets, including three with Ali Farka Toure (who's album 'talking timbuctoo' with Ry Cooder i would also very much recommend). Their are also two songs from Traore's earlier carreor in the sixties where he was portrayed as independant malis answer to rock and roll.
This album is also wonderfully packaged with very good liner notes in both english and french telling you about each of the songs and about the man himself. There are many photos which help further the image of the music the album puts together as well.
I highly recomend this CD for anybody who is looking for a relaxing alternternative to just about anything modern life has to offer.
But it's wonderful, and is now my favourite.
If you appreciate the music of Boubacar Traore at all, you will love this.
Dreamy and contemplative - West Africa at its best.
This disc has a very ambient feel. There are field recordings made in the villages of Mali, in the streets of Timbuktu, sometimes with legendary colleagues such as Ali Farka Toure, or on stage in concert with his daughter, Rokia Traore. You hear audiences celebrating an icon, you hear children listening in rapture. The wind, the dust, the sounds of Northern Africa blow mystically through this disc. It is a wonder.
Perhaps a DVD of this film will be released in North America. I am moved beyond words by the songs on this disc, the voice, the guitar playing. Do yourself an enormous spiritual favour, and pick this up. You'll never listen to music in the same way thereafter.
I HIGHLY recommend getting Karkar's other CDs: 'Sa Golo' and 'Macire'.
The DVD sounds great based on comments from the other reviewers - I would love to get a copy of that!
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