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geplaatst: 6 april 2025, 17:26 uur
de muziek is van hetzelfde laken een pak als op het eerder in 1984 verschenen album "Red", hoewel de instrumentatie net iets uitgebreider is. verscheen samen met "Green" als 2-cd set "Red & Green".
authentieke, pure in spontane sessies gespeelde Afrikaanse akoestische blues, zoals Ali Farka Toure die op zijn eigen, unieke manier voortbracht.
tijdens een interview werd hem ooit gevraagd wat de ontbrekende schakel was tussen zijn muziek en de Amerikaanse blues:
"Was this style of blues, isolated in remote rural Africa for centuries, the very same music slaves had carried with them to the plantations of the American southern states? No, was the short answer to that. Ali turned out to be a big fan of American blues and had accumulated since his youth a collection of cassettes. However on first hearing this music in the 60's he had been struck by the similarities it bore to his own. "This is music that has been taken from here" he once said.
de originele opnames van dit album vonden "in the early eighties" plaats in de Radio Mali Studios, Bamako, recorded by Boubacar Traore, Jean Claude & Ali Farka Toure en werd als re-issue geproduceerd door Nick Gold. de geluidskwaliteit is prima.
All songs by Ali Farka Toure
tracks 1 t/m 4
Ali Farka Toure - vocals & guitar
Hammar Sankare - vocals & calabash
tracks 5 t/m 8
Ali Farka Toure - vocals & guitar
Boubacar Hamadoun Farana - griot
Ousmana Gadjaka - n'goni traditional guitar
uit de liner notes (World Circuit, 2004)
"Two cd set of classic recordings available for the first time in over a decade. The "Red" album is the pivotal set that launched Ali's career in the west, and the "Green" album reconfirmed his status as one of Africa's most important artists. Both albums are included complete and digitally remastered from the original tapes"
authentieke, pure in spontane sessies gespeelde Afrikaanse akoestische blues, zoals Ali Farka Toure die op zijn eigen, unieke manier voortbracht.
tijdens een interview werd hem ooit gevraagd wat de ontbrekende schakel was tussen zijn muziek en de Amerikaanse blues:
"Was this style of blues, isolated in remote rural Africa for centuries, the very same music slaves had carried with them to the plantations of the American southern states? No, was the short answer to that. Ali turned out to be a big fan of American blues and had accumulated since his youth a collection of cassettes. However on first hearing this music in the 60's he had been struck by the similarities it bore to his own. "This is music that has been taken from here" he once said.
de originele opnames van dit album vonden "in the early eighties" plaats in de Radio Mali Studios, Bamako, recorded by Boubacar Traore, Jean Claude & Ali Farka Toure en werd als re-issue geproduceerd door Nick Gold. de geluidskwaliteit is prima.
All songs by Ali Farka Toure
tracks 1 t/m 4
Ali Farka Toure - vocals & guitar
Hammar Sankare - vocals & calabash
tracks 5 t/m 8
Ali Farka Toure - vocals & guitar
Boubacar Hamadoun Farana - griot
Ousmana Gadjaka - n'goni traditional guitar
uit de liner notes (World Circuit, 2004)
"Two cd set of classic recordings available for the first time in over a decade. The "Red" album is the pivotal set that launched Ali's career in the west, and the "Green" album reconfirmed his status as one of Africa's most important artists. Both albums are included complete and digitally remastered from the original tapes"
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