The post Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré Announce New Album Ali, Share “Savanne”: Stream appeared first on Consequence. “I want this album to convey love. It is about the love that Ali brought into ...

Khruangbin is collaborating with Vieux Farka Touré to honor the latter’s late father, Malian guitarist, Ali Farka Touré. Their upcoming joint album, called Ali, will recreate the legendary namesake ...

Voyageur, the new album from the legendary African guitarist and singer Ali Farka Touré, is out March 10 on World Circuit Records. In anticipation of the forthcoming record World Circuit is debuting ...

These days the genre of desert blues boasts one of the most vibrant music movements around the world. The bands and musicians that are part of this genre come from an area that is spread across ...

Just as the legendary Ali Farka Tour was heavily influenced by his musical surroundings, Vieux himself was exposed to music of the Western world from an early age. Growing up listening to reggae, ...

Ali Farka Touré, the gifted musician and farmer, came from Timbuktu. Yes, there is a place called Timbuktu and it’s in Africa, in the loop of the Niger to be precise. As a child Ali never learned to ...

Filmmaker Marc Huraux journeys to the small Malian village of Niafunké for a visit with double Grammy winner Ali Farka Toure in this compelling documentary. Huraux's cameras track the charismatic ...

When Malian guitarist and singer Ali Farka Touré won a Grammy for his 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, his reputation as the “African John Lee Hooker” spread worldwide. But Touré ...

The Houston trio Khruangbin have spent the past couple years teaming up with the soul singer Leon Bridges, in between releasing a new album of their own, Mordechai. Today, the band has announced ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Malian singer-guitarist Vieux Farka Touré will perform at the Woodstock Playhouse on May 10, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 20, at 10 a.m. Born in Niafunké, Mali, in ...

Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré have announced a new collaborative album. Ali is in honor of Vieux’s late father Ali Farka Touré; the artists recreate and pay homage to his work across the new album.