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"Robert Plant & Justin Adams - Win My Train Fare Back Home" from Festival in the Desert
Sample Track 2:
"Takamba Super Onze - Super 11" from Festival in the Desert
Sample Track 3:
"Ali Farka Toure - Karaw" from Festival in the Desert
Sample Track 4:
"Oumou Sangare - Wayena" from Festival in the Desert
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Festival in the Desert
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At last, a souvenir of a music festival that works even if you weren't there in person. Taped at the third 'Tuareg Woodstock' on the middle of the Malian section of the Sahara last January, this record has so many cherishable moments it is difficult to know were to start: nomadic, camel-riding guitarists who have retained everything good about the instrument the rock forgot sometime in the early '70s; piano-kora jams; djinn-rousing, trance-inducing vocalists; Robert Plant and a Navajo throat singers rocking out, Actually, the latter pair break the consistency of mood, but as Plant sandwiched between the colossal Tartit and Mauritanian icon Sadoum Ehl Aida, he was always going to suffer. Local hero Alo Farka Toure is on from, Afel Bocoum surpasses himself. Buy without reservations.
David Hutcheon  11/01/03
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