Vieux Farka Touré: sultry blues from Mali
You probably all know Malinese guitar player Vieux Farka Touré, because he opened the soccer world championship in 2010. Soccer doesn’t interest me at all and I just recently discovered his dreamy, laid-back, pensive, sultry blues because Spotify recommended the song Savanne to me, an old song (there’s a three year old live version here) he apparently ree-recorded for his new album Ali, a co-operation with the Texan band Khruangbin.
The song above is from that album too, the video shows a happy couple, she a Muslim, he apparently not, celebrating their love. But alas, it ends in violence. (PB)





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