– Each Wednesday, The World Africa presents three new musical releases from or inspired by the continent. This week, the blues takes us on a journey between the United Kingdom, Mali, the United States, Algeria, Belgium and Sierra Leone with the new albums of Ali Farka Touré (posthumous), Nasser Ben Dadoo alias “White Feet” and Bai Kamara Jr.
“Chérie”, by Ali Farka Touré (feat. Oumou Sangaré)
Two legends of Malian music on the same track, Darling, recorded in 1995 in London. One very much alive, Oumou Sangaré, and the other disappeared, Ali Farka Touré (1939-2006). The Wassoulou diva, a great friend of the “desert bluesman”, appears on three of the nine tracks included in the guitarist’s posthumous album which will be released on Friday March 10. Entitled Traveler, this one brings together previously unseen footage captured in different places and at different times in his career, over a period of fifteen years, on the road between two concerts or in the studio between two takes. Treasures revealed today by producer Nick Gold, from the British label World Circuit, in collaboration with Vieux Farka Touré, Ali’s son.
“Yema”, by White Feet (feat. Vieux Farka Touré)
We find Old Farka Touré on Bud, a piece from Blue Legacy, the new album by Nasser Ben Dadoo alias “White Feet”, released at the end of February. In this record, the French guitarist and singer born to Algerian and Egyptian parents, originally from Marseille but now living in Burgundy, brings together the blues of the Saharan desert with that of the Mississippi delta. Without forgetting his North African roots, his deep and powerful voice abandoning the English of New Orleans and Chicago for the Arabic of Cairo or Algiers on the titles Roubla et Immigri – or French on Laurier rose –, for an invitation to travel where the melancholy of the blues is sometimes charged with an explosive rock energy.
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