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Ali Farka Toure - Red & Green (2004) 2CDs

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Ali Farka Toure - Red & Green (2004) 2CDs

Ali Farka Touré - Red & Green (2004) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 610 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 205 Mb
Label: World Circuit | # WCD070 | Time: 01:28:48 | Scans ~ 43 Mb
World Fusion, African Folk, Desert Blues

By the mid-'90s, Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré was expanding his signature acoustic African blues by changing his instrumental palette and collaborating with Western musicians like Ry Cooder (as on 1994's Talkin' Timbuktu). While Touré gained prominence during this period, many die-hard fans tout the artist's earliest work as his strongest. The double-disc set Red & Green brings together two albums originally released by the French label Sonodisc between the mid- and late '80s. The original vinyl versions were long out of print and difficult to find, until their issue here on World Circuit/Nonesuch. Both albums are entirely acoustic (Touré didn't introduce an electric guitar until 1991's The Source), with minimal accompaniment on calabash and ngoni (a traditional four-string guitar), which perfectly complements Touré's percussive guitar style and plaintive, keening vocals.

Abdallah Oumbadougou - AMGHAR: The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (2024)

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Abdallah Oumbadougou - AMGHAR: The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (2024)

Abdallah Oumbadougou - AMGHAR: The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 369 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 159 Mb | 01:09:03
World, Desert Blues | Label: Petaluma Records

Amghar: The Godfatdher of Touareg Music - VOL. 1 is the first career retrospective of the legendary, late Tuareg innovator Abdallah Oumbadougou, who is considered the Godfather of the Tuareg / Desert Blues genre and was a primary influence of current artists Bombino and Mdou Mocktar. It features 14 tracks, newly remastered by 5 time GRAMMY winning engineer Michael Graves, and includes 6 unreleased, never before heard tracks. The gorgeous Double Vinyl package also includes extensive historical liner notes from Tuareg expert and historian Andy Morgan and lyric translations in Tamashek, French and English. The cover portrait of the artist was created by Nigerian born illustrator Diana Ejaita who is notable for her extensive cover work with the New Yorker magazine. 'He was like a father to us. Like our first inspiration' - BOMBINO

Aziza Brahim - Mawja (2024)

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Aziza Brahim - Mawja (2024)

Aziza Brahim - Mawja (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 205 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 83 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:34:57
World, Desert Blues, Female Vocal | Label: Glitterbeat Records

Sahrawi singer-songwriter activist Aziza Brahim’s fifth album Mawja (Wave in Hassaniya Arabic) is fashioned from a simple but powerful foundational palette: Saharan and Iberian percussion entwining with stately guitars and warm, enveloping bass.

Vieux Farka Toure & Julia Easterlin - Touristes (2015)

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Vieux Farka Toure & Julia Easterlin - Touristes (2015)

Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin - Touristes (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 223 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 88 Mb | Scans included
Label: Six Degrees | # 657036-1230-2-1 | Time: 00:36:50
World Fusion, African, Indie Folk, Desert Blues

Like his legendary father, Ali Farka Touré, Vieux is a guitarist who likes to collaborate. He has worked with the Israeli keyboard player Idan Raichel, and now comes an even more powerful partnership, with American singer Julia Easterlin. The opening Little Things starts with the familiar guitar lines of that Malian favourite Kaira, before Easterlin eases in to nudge the song towards western balladry. Elsewhere, this bravely original fusion switches from an African funk treatment of Fever Ray’s I’m Not Done to slow, thoughtful laments. The traditional In the Pines has been covered by everyone from Lead Belly to Nirvana, but is here reworked with chilling, whispered vocals and desert blues guitar, while the most startling track is a slow, African-edged treatment of Dylan’s Masters of War, which sounds like a pained meditation on the recent chaos in Mali.

Bombino - Live In Amsterdam (2020)

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Bombino - Live In Amsterdam (2020)

Bombino - Live In Amsterdam (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 416 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | 00:58:31
World, Desert Blues, Blues Rock | Label: Partisan Records

Recorded live at Melkweg in Amsterdam, Netherlands in late 2019, Bombino’s Live In Amsterdam marks the long-awaited first live album from the “world’s best guitarist” - Noisey

Bombino - Sahel (2023)

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Bombino - Sahel (2023)

Bombino - Sahel (2023)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 297 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 106 Mb | 00:46:06
World, Desert Blues | Label: Partisan Records

Bombino is back with a brand new studio album - 'Sahel'. The new record is Bombino’s first full album in over five years, and follows 2018’s ‘Deran’, which garnered praise like "the Sultan of Shred" from The New York Times, and "the World's Best Guitarist" from Vice. This praise also turned the guitar luminary + Tuareg folk hero into the first-ever GRAMMY®-nominated artist from Niger. ‘Sahel’ was produced by produced by David Wrench (David Byrne, Frank Ocean, Caribou, The xx) and was recorded at Studio HIBA in Casablanca, Morocco.

VA - A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa (2022)

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VA - A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa (2022)

VA - A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 260 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 Mb | 00:41:25
World | Label: Shika Shika

A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa is an album of music inspired by endangered birdsong. Each featured artist was challenged to make an original track using and inspired by the song of an endangered bird from their country. The album aims to raise awareness about the plight of these birds while raising funds for organisations that are working to protect them.

Aziza Brahim - Sahari (2019)

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Aziza Brahim - Sahari (2019)

Aziza Brahim - Sahari (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 194 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 89 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:34:08
World, Desert Blues, Female Vocal | Label: Glitterbeat Records

On the front cover of Aziza Brahim’s new album, Sahari, a young girl poses in ballet shoes and a glistening white tutu. It’s a common childhood scene, but it’s tipped upside down. She’s not privileged and the backdrop isn’t a comfortable suburban home. She’s an exile, living nowhere near her homeland, and behind her stand the tents and buildings of a refugee camp. There’s a desert on the ground and a burning sky above. Yet even in this bleakness, she has optimism. She believes in a better future.

Tinariwen - Amatssou (Deluxe Edition) (2023)

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Tinariwen - Amatssou (Deluxe Edition) (2023)

Tinariwen - Amatssou (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 395 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 15 Mb | 01:05:14
World, Desert Blues | Label: Wedge Records

Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band, albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That idea is magnified on new album Amatssou, which finds the Tuareg band’s trademark snaking guitar lines and hypnotic rhythms blending seamlessly with pedal steel, piano and strings from guest musicians including Daniel Lanois, the embellished arrangements lending the songs an epic, universal application.

Idrissa Soumaoro - Diré (2023)

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Idrissa Soumaoro - Diré (2023)

Idrissa Soumaoro - Diré (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 238 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 88 Mb | 00:38:00
World, Desert Blues | Label: Mieruba

'Diré’, Idrissa Soumaoro new album, comes as a surprise to Malian and international audiences. Composer, singer, guitarist and master of the kamalen n’goni Idrissa Soumaoro presents here a beautiful collection of songs on his third album, Diré, named in honor of the town where he met his wife and where his first daughter, who is no longer with us, was born.

Khruangbin & Toro y Moi - Live at The Fillmore Miami (2023)

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Khruangbin & Toro y Moi - Live at The Fillmore Miami (2023)

Khruangbin & Toro y Moi - Live at The Fillmore Miami (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 232 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 98 MB
42:10 | Desert Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Funk | Label: Dead Oceans - Night Time Stories

A side features Toro y Moi, B side features Khruangbin.
It’s only fitting that Khruangbin’s first-ever official live releases would be albums paired with their tourmates: artists whose music they love and admire, friends who’ve become family along the way. Khruangbin’s series of live LPs traces just one small slice of the band’s flight plan through the years: it’s a taste of some of their most beloved cities, stages and nights. Each release comes with a limited-edition unique album cover exclusive for the recording’s home turf, just a little something extra for the fans that bring a little something extra. Most of all, this series ignites both sides of the band’s magic: the warm, prismatic feeling of their albums and the bewitching energy of their performances.

Tinariwen - Amatssou (2023)

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Tinariwen - Amatssou (2023)

Tinariwen - Amatssou (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 294 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 115 Mb | 00:50:09
World, Desert Blues | Label: Wedge Records

Some people have commented that Tinariwen have always been a country band, albeit a North African take on that most North American of genres. That idea is magnified on new album Amatssou, which finds the Tuareg band’s trademark snaking guitar lines and hypnotic rhythms blending seamlessly with pedal steel, piano and strings from guest musicians including Daniel Lanois, the embellished arrangements lending the songs an epic, universal application.

Al Bilali Soudan - Tombouctou (2020)

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Al Bilali Soudan - Tombouctou (2020)

Al Bilali Soudan - Tombouctou (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 350 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | 01:07:29
World, Desert Blues | Label: Clermont Music

Prepare to be blown away by the intesity of Al Bilali Soudan. This music has been performed from at least the 16th century by Touareg griots to celebrate the end of harvest and the changing of the seasons, to encourage warriors and to welcome them back from battles, to praise noble families and to heal the sick. Over centuries this music has evolved through fusion with other ethnic groups.

Ali Farka Touré - Voyageur (2023)

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Ali Farka Touré - Voyageur (2023)

Ali Farka Touré - Voyageur (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 245 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 101 Mb | 00:43:55
World, Desert Blues | Label: World Circuit Records

Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate: Ali’s sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, resulting in the creation of a groundbreaking new genre, now well known as the ‘desert blues’, earning him 3 Grammy awards and widespread reverence. 'Voyageur' is the first release of previously unheard music since 2006’s 'Savane', and features a collection of recordings captured at various points in Ali’s illustrious career. The album, which features fellow Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré on 3 tracks, reaffirms Ali’s status as a globally revered legend of African music.

Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur - Afropentatonism (2020)

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Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur - Afropentatonism (2020)

Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur - Afropentatonism (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 273 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 115 Mb | 00:50:06
World, Desert Blues | Label: Pirahna Records

A pan-African All-Star band merging two cultures. Desert blues man Alhousseini Anivolla meets Ethio-jazz guitarist Girum Mezmur. Their album ”Afropentatonism” features repetitive grooves, hypnotic jams and raw guitar sounds.