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Article: Red and Green: Ali Farka Toure.(Sound Recording Review)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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RED AND GREEN
ALI FARKA TOURE
World Circuit Records
Cat: WCD070
Available for the first time in over a decade, 'Red and Green' is a two set CD by the great Malian musician Ali Farka Toure. Originally released as vinyl records in 1979 and 1988, these albums have been digitally remastered from the original master tapes and are made available complete with full lyrics and sleeve notes. This is the first Ali Farka Toure release since his 1999 release 'Niafunke'.
Ali was born in 1939 in the village of Kanau near Gourmararouse on the banks of the River Niger in the north west of Mali. He was his mother's tenth son but the first to ...