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Sample Track 1:
"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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CD Review

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Certainly the most exotic music festival in the world, Festival in the Desert takes place every January in the Sahara Desert in northeast Mali, beyond Timbuktu. It takes more effort then most people are willing to expend to get to this remote festival, but, fortunately this CD offers a generous taste of the desert magic wrought at this year’s festival. Fabled Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure and his group deliver a mesmerizing version of “Karaw.” Robert Plant and Justin Adams work a stirring rendition of “Win My Train Fare Home.” Tamashek group Tinariwen clearly puts a buzz in the crowd with “Aldachan Manin,” while another Tamashek group, Tartit delivers a literally entrancing performance on “Tihar Bayatin.” Other fine moments come courtesy of the French group Lo’Jo, Malian superstar Oumou Sangare, Afel Becoum and Blackfire, a Navajo group from Arizona. Racked in the U.S by Harmonia Mundi
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 11/29/03
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