{"id":42370,"date":"2018-05-07T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/samba-toure-announces-new-album-wande\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:36","slug":"samba-toure-announces-new-album-wande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/samba-toure-announces-new-album-wande\/","title":{"rendered":"Samba Tour\u00e9 Announces New Album &#8220;Wande&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" >\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14056 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/samba_toure.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/samba_toure.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/samba_toure-759x604.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/samba_toure-1010x804.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/samba_toure-661x526.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/samba_toure-465x370.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/samba_toure-375x298.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Legendary guitarist and vocalist from\u00a0Mali Samba Tour\u00e9, is about to release his fifth album,\u00a0<em>Wande\u00a0<\/em>which comes out on May 25 on Glitterbeat Records.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Direct and spontaneous\u00a0<i>Wande<\/i>\u00a0is a record that reconciles continuity and change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When Malian singer and guitarist Samba Tour\u00e9 was planning Wande (The Beloved), he had strong ideas for the way it should sound. But once the sessions were over, he knew he had something entirely different, something even more satisfying: a collection of songs where warmth filled the grooves of every song. An album that seemed like home.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe had a totally different album in mind,\u201d Tour\u00e9 admits, \u201ca return to something more traditional, almost acoustic. I think this album is less dark than the previous ones. It has some sad and serious songs, but it sounds more peaceful. All the first takes have been kept, I didn\u2019t re-record any guitar lines, the first takes are the one you can hear on the album. There are less overdubs than in previous albums, we didn\u2019t try to polish or make anything perfect, it gives a more natural feeling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uhWBSQ08NWI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That spark of spontaneity fires across the whole disc. It was recorded quickly, in \u201cabout 2 weeks, only in the afternoons and with breaks on week end to play in weddings, so it was very relaxed! One of the main difficulties we have in Mali is to reunite everyone at same moment. Every young musician plays in at least three bands or have a side job, only a few musicians in Mali can live from music, and have to work, so they are always busy. For the most part, I recorded the guitars first, then came percussion and bass. But on \u201cHawah,\u201d a song I played before, I was totally unable to play the guitar without singing it so I just decided to record guitar and vocal together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Starting out as a guitarist in a soukous band, everything was altered when he became an accompanist to Mali\u2019s greatest legend, the late Ali Farka Tour\u00e9 (with whom his mother had performed). Later, as a solo artist, he\u2019s become renowned across the globe for his passionate guitar work and fiery singing, one of the masters of his art, a man who\u2019s learned from the greatest and gone on to develop a sound that\u2019s completely his own. But, Tour\u00e9 says, don\u2019t call it desert blues. Don\u2019t call it African Rock. That\u2019s lazy. It doesn\u2019t need labels like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s contemporary music from Mali,\u201d he insists. \u201cMaybe our traditional music has changed. We live all in the same world wherever we are on that planet, we all have the same music on radio or TV, we hear the same music in movies, so even if we don\u2019t really know what\u2019s rock music in Mali, we hear some everywhere every day, it has become part of our inspirations, easy inspirations because it\u2019s sometimes so close to what we do traditionally. If you attend a traditional ceremonies in villages north of Mali, you\u2019ll see that musician always use distortion at maximum level but they don\u2019t know anything about rock or blues. But believe me they do some. And desert blues\u2026to me it\u2019s a way to name music from the region north Mali, Niger or Mauritania but it has no more sense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Instead, call <i>Wande<\/i> the unexpected. Call it joyous. Call it the music Samba Tour\u00e9 is making right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14053\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Webp.net-compress-image-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Legendary guitarist and vocalist from\u00a0Mali Samba Tour\u00e9, is about to release his fifth album,\u00a0Wande\u00a0which comes out on May 25 on Glitterbeat Records. 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