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Talking Timbuktu (with Ry Cooder)
Ali Farka Touré
World - Released January 1, 1994 | World Circuit
Before taking his friend Wim Wenders to Havana and hitting the jackpot by producing the Cuban grandpas that would soon be known throughout the world under the name Buena Vista Social Club, the American guitarist Ry Cooder took an interest in the grooves from the doors of the Malian desert and the unforgettable guitar playing of Ali Farka Touré. Supervised by the English label World Circuit, this summit meeting between the gentleman farmer/guitarist from Niafunké and the Rolling Stones’ partner (on Sticky Fingers) who created the soundtrack for film Paris, Texas, has gone down in history and earned a Grammy Award for its authors. The ten pieces sung by Ali in Pular, Bambara, Songhay or Tamasheq have been composed in Mali and recorded in Los Angeles. For the party, Ry Cooder has invited bass player John Patitucci, drummer Jim Keltner and Louisiana veteran Gatemouth Brown, on guitar and violin to come and meet their rolling groove brothers from Mali; Ali Farka Touré, on guitar and njarka (a violin with a single chord), drummer and singer Hamma Sankaré on calabash and drummer Oumar Touré on congas. The two teams are on exactly the same wavelength and give the illusion that their two homelands have gotten closer, that the Mississippi is the extension of the Niger River. It would be reductive to call their combined music blues, a label that Ali Farka Touré has always rejected. But it’s undeniable that this disc, which gave the Malian guitarist a worldwide audience, is and will remain a classic. © BM/Qobuz
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Kala
M.I.A.
Electronic - Released January 1, 2007 | XL Recordings
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Kala and Arular are similar in that they are both wildly vigorous and wholly enjoyable albums, generous with blunt-force beats, flurries of percussion, riotous vocals (with largely inconsequential lyrics), and fearless stylistic syntheses that seem to view music from half of the planet's countries as potential source material. But Kala nearly makes Arular seem tame in comparison, magnifying most of its predecessor's qualities as it remains bracingly adventurous. While it certainly sounds like a second M.I.A. album, nothing about it is stagnant. Made in piecemeal fashion while located in several countries, Kala involves a few co-producers: U.K. "dirty house" producer Switch is the primary collaborator, while Baltimore club don Blaqstarr, Diplo, and Timbaland assist M.I.A. on one or a couple tracks each. Further variety is added vocally, not only through M.I.A.'s numerous modes, but also through feature spots from Nigerian MC Afrikan Boy and a crew of young Aborigine rappers. Roughly half the album -- including the opening three-track sequence, which incorporates Jonathan Richman's "Roadrunner," samples from two Tamil-language film soundtracks, squawking chickens, (what sounds like) yelping children, and clustered rhythmic devices that boom, stab, clap, rattle, twitter, and sometimes even prance -- is more intense than anything on Arular. The tracks are so full of chaos and jagged noise that it is disarming to reach the relatively relaxed material, especially the two tracks that resemble actual songs. "Jimmy" is a rather faithful cover, willfully chintzy strings and all, of a flirtatiously lovelorn neo-disco number from the '80s Bollywood film Disco Dancer. "Paper Planes" has a sing-songy float to it, aided by the Clash's "Straight to Hell," though it also appropriates Wreckx-N-Effect's "Rump Shaker" while replacing "zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom" and "boom-boom" with sounds from shotguns and cash registers. Like the remainder of the album's best moments, it recalls the late Lizzy Mercier Descloux, another artist who made thrilling music by mixing cultures with respectful irreverence. Perhaps some of Arular's detractors knew M.I.A. was capable of this all along.© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Savane
Ali Farka Touré
Latin Jazz - Released July 13, 2006 | World Circuit
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Before his death in 2006, Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure recorded some sessions in the Hotel Mande in Bamako, Mali. SAVANE, released posthumously, is taken from those sessions, and it bears testament to Farka Toure's standing as one of the giants of contemporary African music. The hallmarks of the artist's work are all here: gentle, mesmerizing tunes centered on sinuous, circular guitar patterns, and evocative vocal lines that float above the music and work in dialogue with the percussion. A valuable addition to Farka Toure's catalogue, SAVANE is a beautiful, elegant swan song that belongs alongside the artist's best work.© TiVo
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Supreme Clientele
Ghostface Killah
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released April 25, 1999 | Epic - Razor Sharp Records
Most of the members of rap's Roman Empire, the Wu-Tang Clan, experienced sophomore slumps with their second solo releases, whether artistically or commercially (usually both). The second offerings from Method Man, Ol' Dirty Bastard, GZA, and Raekwon featured some of the old Wu magic, but not enough to warrant a claim to their once total mastery of the rap game. Just as the Wu empire appeared to be crumbling, along came the second installment from the Clan's spitfire element, Ghostface Killah (aka Tony Starks, aka Ironman). Every bit as good as his first release, Supreme Clientele proves Ghost's worthiness of the Ironman moniker by deftly overcoming trendiness to produce an authentic sound in hip-hop's age of bland parity. Some of the Wu's slump could be contributed to Wu-Abbott's (aka RZA) relative sabbatical. This album has RZA's stamp all over it, but the guru himself only provides three tracks. On this effort, the Wu-Pupil producers at times seem to outdo their teacher. RZA's best composition is the piano-driven, double-entendre-laced childhood retrospective "Child's Play." But of the many standout cuts, it's the slew of disciple producers paying homage to the Wu legacy that truly makes this album fresh-sounding: "Apollo Kids" (Hassan), "Malcolm" (Choo the Specialist), "Saturday Nite" (Carlos "Six July" Broady), "One" (JuJu of the Beatnuts), "Cherchez la Ghost" (Carlos Bess), "Wu Banga 101" (Allah Mathematics). While the album is complete and characteristically Wu-sounding, each track is distinctive lyrically, thematically, and sonically. Ghostface's Supreme Clientele is a step toward the Wu-Tang Clan's ascent from the ashes of their fallen kingdom. The once slumbering Wu-Tang strikes again.© M.F. DiBella /TiVo
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Teni
World - Released November 17, 2023 | Sugar mummy records
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Savane
Ali Farka Touré
World - Released July 13, 2006 | World Circuit
Before his death in 2006, Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure recorded some sessions in the Hotel Mande in Bamako, Mali. SAVANE, released posthumously, is taken from those sessions, and it bears testament to Farka Toure's standing as one of the giants of contemporary African music. The hallmarks of the artist's work are all here: gentle, mesmerizing tunes centered on sinuous, circular guitar patterns, and evocative vocal lines that float above the music and work in dialogue with the percussion. A valuable addition to Farka Toure's catalogue, SAVANE is a beautiful, elegant swan song that belongs alongside the artist's best work.© TiVo
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Mad Professor meets Scientist at the Dub Table
Mad Professor
Reggae - Released March 15, 2005 | Ariwa Sounds
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Palm Beach Banga
Fisher
Dance - Released February 11, 2022 | Catch & Release
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Dr. Fresch
Dance - Released September 15, 2022 | House Call Records
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Savane
Ali Farka Touré
Latin Jazz - Released July 13, 2006 | World Circuit
Before his death in 2006, Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure recorded some sessions in the Hotel Mande in Bamako, Mali. SAVANE, released posthumously, is taken from those sessions, and it bears testament to Farka Toure's standing as one of the giants of contemporary African music. The hallmarks of the artist's work are all here: gentle, mesmerizing tunes centered on sinuous, circular guitar patterns, and evocative vocal lines that float above the music and work in dialogue with the percussion. A valuable addition to Farka Toure's catalogue, SAVANE is a beautiful, elegant swan song that belongs alongside the artist's best work.© TiVo
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Banga! Banga!
Austin Mahone
Pop - Released November 12, 2013 | BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
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Breakfast at Camabis
Show Banga
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released April 20, 2022 | Cam Publishing
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