The Source

• Artist: Ali Farka Touré
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• Release Date: 1991 11
• Genre: World

Review

African guitarist Ali Farka Toure's previous releases were wonderful mixes of traditional language and rhythms being supported by contemporary concerns, instrumentalists, and producers. His most recent session features his working band backing Toure in a series of impassioned, animated tunes that are done in both his native tongue and English. The similarity between Toure's sparse playing and percussive writing and early blues songs has been noted. What also deserves mention is the cohesive qualities his band have and the way his electric and acoustic playing, with its light, frilly air, fills in the spaces underneath his vocals easily. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Goye Kur	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(6:24)
Inchana Massina	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(5:13)
Roucky	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(8:18)
Dofana	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(7:31)
Karaw	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(6:28)
Hawa Dolo	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(5:47)
Cinquante Six	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(5:31)
I Go Ka	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(3:59)
Yenna	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(5:54)
Mahini Me	Ali Farka Touré	Ali Farka Touré	(5:24)

Credits

Ali Farka Touré (Percussion), Afel Bocoum (Narrator), Ali Farka Touré (Njarka Fiddle), Rory MacLeod (Guitar), Ali Farka Touré (Guitar (Electric)), Oumar Toure (Vocals), John Hadden (Engineer), Oumar Toure (Choir, Chorus), Afel Bocoum (Vocals), Ali Farka Touré (Guitar), Nana Tsiboe (Percussion), Hamma Sankare (Calabash), Hamma Sankare (Percussion), Hamma Sankare (Choir, Chorus), Ali Farka Touré (Producer), Ali Farka Touré (Vocals), John Hadden (Mixing), Afel Bocoum (Liner Notes), Ali Farka Touré (Fiddle), Ali Farka Touré (?), Philippe Bertrand (Engineer), Taj Mahal (Guitar), Ali Farka Touré (Maracas), Nick Gold (Producer), Ali Farka Touré (Guitar (Acoustic)), Oumar Toure (Conga), Taj Mahal (Guitar (Acoustic)), Hamma Sankare (Vocals), Nitin Sawhney (Tabla)

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