{"id":118372,"date":"2023-01-19T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=118372"},"modified":"2023-01-18T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:00:11","slug":"voyageur-ali-farka-toure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/voyageur-ali-farka-toure\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyageur, nine unreleased tracks from Ali Farka Tour\u00e9 in posthumous album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nick Gold, World Circuit and Vieux Farka Tour\u00e9 unveil nine previously unreleased compositions by the great Ali Farka Tour\u00e9 with the album Voyageur, available March 10th.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, the posthumous album <em>Ali &amp; Toumani<\/em>, a duet with Bamako korist Toumani Diabat\u00e9, won a Grammy. And seventeen years after the death of the great Malian master Ali Farka Tour\u00e9, his label World Circuit delivers &#8211; sparingly &#8211; nine original tracks. Compiled in the album <em>Voyageur<\/em>, these compositions add to the impressive discography of Farka, international icon of Malian wallahidu.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ali Farka Tour\u00e9 - Safari (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/McCkxYr-1R0?start=214&#038;feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From his native Kanau village on the Niger River to Los Angeles, the late Ali Farka Tour\u00e9 planted the seeds of <em>world music<\/em> on every continent. Though in love with his lands, this farmer, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist, couldn\u2019t resist the call of music for long. At the age of 37, after a ten-year career with the band La Troupe 117, he released his first solo album, soberly named <em>Farka<\/em>. The impact was unprecedented, and the tour that followed took him to Europe, the United States and Asia. But after several brilliant albums including <em>Talking Timbuktu<\/em> &#8211; in collaboration with the American guitarist Ry Cooder, and triumphant tours, the artist retired. Ali Farka Tour\u00e9 wished to devote himself to agriculture. However, he returned two years later with Niafunk\u00e9, a blues gem recorded on his land. Until his death, the singer tried several times to break up with the recording studios, to no avail. Music remained at the heart of his life, and the album <em>Voyageur<\/em> retraces his last fifteen years of passion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced by Nick Gold, founder of World Circuit, and Vieux Farka Tour\u00e9, son of the artist and renowned musician, <em>Voyageur<\/em> will be available on March 10. In anticipation, the single &#8220;Safari&#8221; offers a glimpse of the opus, driven by &#8220;<em>the clean, haunting melodies of Ali&#8217;s signature Songhai, through the anthemic choruses of the fishermen and the pulsating rhythms of the hunters\u201d<\/em>. All in all, a majestic set of Sahelian blues, worthy of the musical legacy left by one of the greatest names in African music.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Safari&#8221; in our <a href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/SongsWeekPAM\">Songs of the Week<\/a> playlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Gold, World Circuit and Vieux Farka Tour\u00e9 unveil nine previously unreleased compositions by the great Ali Farka Tour\u00e9 with the album Voyageur, available March 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4158],"location":[8132],"yst_prominent_words":[21295,9406,8403,8539,11911,21305,8435,8508,8848,11015],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118372"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=118372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=118372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}