RIP Ali Farka Toure

[Deano's Right Foot]

Very sad news that Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure died in his sleep last night. His duet albums with Ry Cooder (Talking Timbuktu) and Toumani DIabate (In The Heart of the Moon) both received Grammys, the latter only a week or two ago.

He'd been fighting bone cancer for a while and the giant of African music will be missed by fans worldwide.

 

[aftershavedave]

real shame

 

[Storer68]

his radio mali album (douible cd) is fab

rip

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

A lot of the great "Old Timers" of world music have died recently - Compay Segundo, Ruben Gonzalez, Ibrahim Ferrer to name but a few. These people were true maestros and will be sorely missed by those that appreciated their talent

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

A lot of the great "Old Timers" of world music have died recently - Compay Segundo, Ruben Gonzalez, Ibrahim Ferrer to name but a few. These people were true maestros and will be sorely missed by those that appreciated their talent

And Ruben and Ibrahim (and Compay if you count his contribution to the Buena Vista Social Club album) were on the same label as Ali Farka Toure, namely World Circuit. It is very sad for everyone at the label, and I really feel for Nick Gold the producer/owner of the label who I know will be distraught.

 

[pigsinspace]

Maybe he will be up there shagging christoper reeve's wife.( after all he could not do it for the last few years!)

 

[Binney on acid]

Did he play at the Gardner Centre about 20 yrs ago? I saw Nusrat fateh ali khan there & also S. E Rogie. Nusrat in particular was amazing.