Talking Timbuktu

Rating

Album: Talking Timbuktu
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Bonde	More Info...	0:05
2)	Soukora	More Info...	0:06
3)	Gomni	More Info...	0:07
4)	Sega	More Info...	0:03
5)	Amandrai	More Info...	0:09
6)	Lasidan	More Info...	0:06
7)	Keito	More Info...	0:05
8)	Banga	More Info...	0:02
9)	Ai Du	More Info...	0:07
10)	Diaraby	More Info...	0:07

Album: Talking Timbuktu
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Bonde	More Info...	0:05
2)	Soukora	More Info...	0:06
3)	Gomni	More Info...	0:07
4)	Sega	More Info...	0:03
5)	Amandrai	More Info...	0:09
6)	Lasidan	More Info...	0:06
7)	Keito	More Info...	0:05
8)	Banga	More Info...	0:02
9)	Ai Du	More Info...	0:07
10)	Diaraby	More Info...	0:07

Performer Notes

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).
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California in September, 1993. Includes liner notes by Nick Gold.
TALKING TIMBUKTU won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

Professional Reviews

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."