Two Malian Guitar Greats, Gone But Still WailingBanning Eyre
This morning, the Houston-based trio announcedAli, a joint album with Malian guitaristVieux Farka Touré. They shared the first single from the album, a sweet, guitar-laden number titled “Savanne.” Aliwill followTexas Moon, the second iteration of their collaborative efforts with fellow TexanL...
On the new Bowmboi (Nonesuch) the gorgeous, intimate arrangements suit her delicate singing perfectly: rather than use the customary call-and-response chants of Malian music, she overdubs layers of her own voice to create precise, radiant harmonies, and her gauzy acoustic guitar is rarely ...
the third section presents the main findings in the following sub-sections: first, how dynamics of forgetting and remembering spurred by music shape feelings of belonging; and second, how the community conceives the traditional and guitargenres of Tuareg music, and what this entails for dynamics ...
Unfortunately for Vieux Farka Toure, he's the son of the late, great Ali Farka Toure, a veritable guitar hero of Malian desert blues music (and mayor of his home town, Niafunke), who died recently from cancer. But fortunately for him, he's a promising musician in his own right and ...
An old guitar, a new muse Malian singer finds inspiration in a rockabilly twangAndrew Gilbert
the third section presents the main findings in the following sub-sections: first, how dynamics of forgetting and remembering spurred by music shape feelings of belonging; and second, how the community conceives the traditional and guitargenres of Tuareg music, and what this entails for dynamics ...
Pentatonic passport: a Malian phrase book.(guitar lesson, including 9 annotated musical examples)(Brief Article)(Illustration)Eyre, Banning