Video: Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Mamadou Boutiquier.wmv

While his son Vieux pioneers on with great West African guitar music, Ali Farka Touré is gone, and we won't be hearing much new music from him. That's what makes the anticipation of the forthcoming album Ali & Toumani such a delicious agony. The second album of guitar-kora collaboration with Toumani Diabaté after 2005's Grammy-winning In the Heart of the Moon , Ali &Toumani promises more of the intricate fingerpicking we've come to expect from these two African masters. [...]

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