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Sample Track 1:
"Ana" from Vieux Farka Touré
Sample Track 2:
"Ma Hine Cocore" from Vieux Farka Touré
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CD Review

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Time Out New York, CD Review >>

As dynastic as the music business has become in the past decade or so, it'll probably come as a surprise that Vieux Farka Touré became a musician without the blessing of his recently deceased father, Malian bluesman Ali Farka Touré. In fact, to start working on Vieux's debut, producer Eric Herman had to obtain permission from Touré père, who only relented (and eventually guested on the sessions) as he was battling the cancer that would soon take his life. The young Farka Touré is no slouch as a guitarist or singer, but for all its pleasantness and pastoral charm, his disc doesn't becoming mesmerizing until Papa and kora master Toumani Diabate pitch in. The late icon's guitar cuts through "Diallo" like a ghostly call from the grave.

--by K. Leander Williams

---------------------------------------------------------------------Vieux Farka Toure plays Pachita (at Pacha) Fri 2 and Joe's Pub Feb 8.  02/01/07
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