Vieux farka toure listen to vieux farka toure on deezer. Vieux farka toure tickets, 2020 concert tour dates. With music streaming on deezer you can discover more than 56 million tracks, create your own playlists. Boureima vieux farka toure is a malian singer and guitarist. Event in maribor, slovenia by festival lent and 3 others on friday, june 29 2018 with 108 people interested and 32 people going. Vieux has picked up right where the great ali farka toure left after his unfortunate early demise, and has imbued the farka toure sound with more straightahead blues and rock. Streaming and by permanent download to your computer andor device. He is the son of grammywinning malian musician ali farka toure. The compulsively listenenable collection feels like his conscious effort to wrap his. With live, vieux farka toure makes a great leap toward becoming the first african electric guitar player to be a western rock star. The belief that the latter is historically derived from the former is. Hearing toures passion and pride expressed through this fine recording, its difficult to believe that the islamic militants in mali placed a countrywide ban on music.
October, 2009 as the son of legendary desert blues guitarist ali farka toure, vieux had big shoes to fill. In 20, vieux farka toures beautiful and critically acclaimed latest album mon pays was released as an homage to his homeland. Being that his native mali has been splintered by territorial fighting between tuareg and islamic rebels since january 2012, his new album, mon pays, is devoted to reminding. Vieuxs fourth studio album, mon pays, was released by six degrees records on 28 may 20. Mon pays presents a new way of looking at the family dynamic as a shared, continuing lineage.
Run march 2010 posted in new music with tags ali farka toure, beefheart. Vieux farka toure mali australasian tour 20162017 the hendrix of the sahara all music guide vieux farka toures group is the best fucking rock band in the world don was producer. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional malian music and its north american cousin, the blues. The title, french for my country, refers to his native mali, and serves as a reminder of its beauty and culture, even in the midst of the territorial conflict between tuareg and islamic populations that have threatened it since january 2012. Im a fan of vieux farka toure as well as other malian musicians and listened to his debut after hearing his latest album mon pays. Video by amanda kowalski, sonia narang, and annie sfler.
Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Vieux farka toures beautiful latest album was recorded as an homage to his homeland. Most of the pieces are composed and arranged by vieux himself, as are the lyrics. Ali farka toure didnt want his son vieux to become a musician, but desert blues fans the world over should be thanking their lucky stars that cooler heads including toumani diabates prevailed.
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