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Ali Farka Touré · 1994 · Plage chantée en peul, avec Ry Cooder

Context

Track from Talking Timbuktu, recorded with Ry Cooder in September 1993 and released on World Circuit in 1994. The page notes that it is sung in Fula. It opens the album, which runs about one hour.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz. Among the origins and influences of Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk.

By the same artist

• Soukora (1994)
• Gomni (1994)
• Diaraby (1994)

Sources

• EN: Talking Timbuktu
• apr.org

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