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The River [Import]

~ Amadou Cisse, Ali Farka Toure
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (1 Jul 1991)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: World Circuit
  • ASIN: B000003QKH
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 841,472 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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This 1990 recording contains one of the best African blues tunes ever recorded, and a classic Ali Farka Toure moment. As the electric guitar roars in at the opening, punctured by a darting harmonica line, "Heygana" lays out the roots and branches of the blues in its journey from west Africa to the Americas, and more importantly, back again. Sung in the Songhai language, pushed by a vaguely reggae groove and pulled along by a sometimes idiosyncratic percussion line on a calabash, it pretty well epitomizes what Toure is about. The sound is stripped down, with the guitar and voice working a bare minimum groove. The calabash clicks, a thick stringed ngoni adds some punch, and a few tracks feature Toure on the njarka (fiddle). In addition to Rory McLeod's harmonica, there is one piece with The Chieftains' Seane Keane and Kevin Conneff on fiddle and bodhran (Irish goatskin drum), and a marvelous duet with saxophonist Steve Williamson that adds a little sideways R&B. The River is one of Toure's most straightforward recordings made in the decade after the light of his international fame had first shone. --Louis Gibson

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not from the middle of nowhere - from the heart of Africa!, 4 Jan 2006
By Dr. H. Beentje (Kew, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The River (Audio CD)
Niafunke, where Mr Toure lives, may be a small village not far from Timbouctou - but this is not just music from his heart, but from the heart of Africa. And it goes straight to *my* heart. And to my feet as well - this is music that moves you, and that makes you move!
He is a master of the guitar, and the effortless uptempo licks combine with the fast calabash to make funky bluesy but above all African music. And man, what music it is. This must be one of his best albums. Just listen to the first number, Heygana, which sets the tone for the others. It's fast, it's funky, it is very Ali Farka Toure, and his voice (which has a curiously innocent sound to me) sets it off to something which is close to perfection. Bless the man and his band, and play it again!
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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CD you will feel like standing in the Mali desert, 14 Nov 2000
This excellent CD is one of the classics of Mr Tourč. Once available only in Mali, Cote d'Ivoir, and few well selected record shops in Paris, it is available for all lovers of sub - saharan jazz music. You won't believe it has really been recorded in the middle of nowhere.
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1 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh Lord! I see ya!!!, 6 April 2002
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It's quite impossible to describe the state of kinda enlightment in such funny and smtms even stupid form like words... Guys, have you ever seen the Lord's glory? If no, try to put on yo ears some tunes from "Da River" of His Majesty Ali "Toure" Farka, ever living, ever singing, ever the coolest guy among the living guitar players! Swear by Momma Africa - he REALLY knows what things are... Some call him "JL Hooker from Mali", but I prefer to say "Zen master from Zion". One more time 'n altogether: ALI TOURE! WHAT'LL BE YO NEXT REVELATION?
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