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New York Times, Jazz and Pop >>
`FESTIVAL IN THE DESERT' A recording from last January's Le Festival au Desert, an extraordinary event held in the sands at the edge of the Sahara in Mali, north of Timbuktu, amid the Tuareg people. It's mostly Malian music, but not entirely. Much of the document is genuinely great; there are a few pre-eminent Malian musicians like Oumou Sangare, Afel Bocum and Ali Farka Toure, as well as a few names you won't know, like the guitarist Baba Salah, the stomping blueslike Tuareg band Tinariwen, the traditional Tuareg vocals-and-handclapping group Kel Tin Lokiene and the Navajo rock band Blackfire, from Arizona. Then there's also someone named Robert Plant, who used to sing in a band called Led Zeppelin. Oct. 14. World Village.
--Ben Ratliff 09/07/03 >> go there
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