TALKING TIMBUKTU won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California in September, 1993. Includes liner notes by Nick Gold.
Personnel: Ali Farka Touré (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, percussion); Ry Cooder (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, tamboura, marimba, bass guitar, sampler); Oumar Toure (vocals, congas, bongos); Hamma Sankare (vocals, percussion); Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (electric guitar, viola); John Patitucci (acoustic bass, bass guitar); Jim Keltner (drums).
Audio Mixers: Larry Hirsh; Mark Ettel.
Recording information: Ocean Way Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA (09/1993).
Photographer: Susan Titelman.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; Jim Keltner; John Patitucci; Ali Farka Touré; Ry Cooder.
Arranger: Ali Farka Touré.
Personnel: Ali Farka Toure (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, 6-string banjo, njarka, percussion), Ry Cooder (acoustic & electric guitars, electric slide guitar, electric mando-guitar, cumbus, mbira, marimba, tamboura, mandolin, bass, samples); Oumar Toure (vocals, congas, bongos); Hamma Sankare (vocals, calabash); Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (electric guitar, viola); John Patitucci (acoustic bass, bass); Jim Keltner (drums).
Uncut (2/03, p.78) - "...The spirit of spontaneity only serves to emphasize the deep understanding between the two guitarists and the connections between American blues and its African roots..." Musician (6/94, p.86) - "...Toure's home village of Niafunke nestles between the Sahara and the Niger River, his farm plots carefully cultivated in a precarious symmetry between two inexorable forces. It's fitting that TALKING TIMBUKTU achieves its own quiet balance among several roots and branches of the blues...." Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #40 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Stereo Review (5/94, p.91) - "...a very different tapestry of cross-cultural musical threads that co-exist happily and beautifully..." Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.52) - Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994" - "A sprung cushion of boneless rhythms conjured up by the rich ringing West African guitar of Toure...and the loose spiritual blues of Cooder."
Engaging, contageous warmth This music is both relaxing and energizing at the same time. It provides an ambience in which you can lay back and dream, or share a good time. The rythems are contageous, and at its best, it is purely timeless. Submitted by a reviewer (New York, NY, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
Tomotou Music Well, one of the people above said "evocative of East African culture" Mali is in West Africa. In any case, this is true music from West Africa, the music of the sahel. This man knows what he is doing. May God bless his soul in Heaven. Submitted by DSKBfoeva (Niamey,Niger) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
The best of world music This is real music. Just bought my third CD of Talking Timbuktu. Wonderfully evocative of east African culture. Submitted by gardensgate (Highlands, NC, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
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