Ali Farka Tour, Toumani Diabat In The Heart Of The Moon (2xLP)

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• Ali Farka Tour and Toumani Diabat are among the most famous West African musicians. “In The Heart Of The Moon” was not only their first collaboration for a complete album, but also the first Work of both musicians for many years.
  What began as an idea for a single duet ended with a whole record full of ideas, musical improvisation and spontaneity. Recorded in three two-hour sessions at the Hotel Mand in Bamako, Mali, an extraordinary dialogue between Tours acoustic guitar and Diabats Kora was created. The album featured Ry Cooder on piano and guitar, Sekou Kante and Cachato Lpez on bass and Joachim Cooder and Lekan Babalola on Percussion.
  Ali Farka Tour, who died in 2006, is known as the John Lee Hooker of Africa and is one of the most prominent representatives of West African music in the West. Toumani Diabat also comes from Mali and is considered the master of the Kora, a 21-string harp. Western pop audiences know him from his work with Taj Mahal and Damon Albarn (Blur). “The most beautiful music in the world,” enthused the English music magazine Mojo.
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  This tender but intense music from West Africa has never sounded more transparent, space- and heart-rending (stereoplay, August 2012)
  ,,… here an instrumentally reduced, very spiritual and yet easily accessible music literally casts a spell over the listener …” (Stereo, November 2012)
  

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  AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (141 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review

• Artist: Ali Farka Tour, Toumani Diabat Label: World Circuit Format: LP Units: 2 Country: UK Genre: Global Style: African

• A1 Debe
  A2 Kala
  A3 Mamadou Boutiquier
  B1 Monsieur Le Maire De Niafunk
  B2 Kaira
  B3 Simbo
  C1 Ai Ga Bani
  C2 Soumbou Ya Ya
  C3 Naweye Toro
  D1 Kadi Kadi
  D2 Gomni
  D3 Hawa Dolo