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Vieux Farka Toure
The phrase "like father, like son" takes on a bittersweet tone when it comes to the relationship between guitarist/singer/percussionist Bouriema "Vieux Farka" Toure and the late Ali Farka Toure. The elder Toure — a native of the village of Niafunke in the Sahara desert — passed on to his son a love of artful hypnotic blues with trance-inducing grooves and guttural vocals the likes of which won Ali acclaim for albums such as 1994's Talking Timbuktu. Ali was a legend. But rather than emulate completely what his treasured father laid forth, bold six-stringer Vieux Farka Toure embraced the salty elan of rock and the sugary gentility of reggae for his own mesmeric Mali-based blues. The results found on Vieux's eponymous debut — featuring his father's final recorded works — usher forth a new brand of twisted Malian traditionalism with the sounds of flute, fiddle and kora emboldened by the bluster of spiky guitars. Ali would be proud.
— A.D. Amorosi
* Vieux Farka Toure at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, at World Cafe Uve, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets: $20. Phone: 215-222-1400.
02/02/07
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