Vieux Farka Touré – Fondo

Released: 17/05/2009 Six Degrees

If Vieux Farka Touré’s guitar-playing sounds uncannily similar to the west African kora instrument, that’s because he was mentored by the great kora player Toumani Diabaté. The son of legendary Ali Farka Touré, Vieux really comes into his own on his second album. For more information visit: www.vieuxfarkatoure.com/ Buy tickets at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001W63DP0?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…

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Guardian“Another great exponent of the African blues...” Ali Farka Touré never wanted his son to be a musician, but he would have been proud to hear this...

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The Times“Consistently excellent...” Feisty new African guitar hero, proud to display his versatility, adding an impressive modern groove to the Saharan blues...

The Independent“Not yet reviewed”

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The Telegraph“Full of African teen spirit...” Backing his dark, incantatory voice with everything from kora to jazz drumming, the feel of this second album is earthy, loose, but full of African teen spirit...

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allmusic“Vieux Farka Touré steps out of the shadow of his late...” Touré has created a mature, exciting, and jubilant album, and shows himself already a master...

Uncut“Not yet reviewed”

BBC“Not yet reviewed”

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”

Pitchfork“Not yet reviewed”

Drowned In Sound“Not yet reviewed”

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Recorded music

90%	Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras - Mozart Symphonies 29, 31…
87%	Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
85%	Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani
85%	The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
85%	These New Puritans - Hidden
84%	Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
83%	Polar Bear - Peepers
82%	Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
82%	Four Tet - There Is Love In You
81%	Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
80%	Liars - Sisterworld
80%	The Necks - Silverwater
80%	Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales Constellation
80%	Lindstrom and Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
79%	Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave

Cinema

86%	Exit Through The Gift Shop
85%	Father of My Children
83%	Ponyo
81%	A Single Man
76%	Lourdes
75%	The Headless Woman (La Mujer sin Cabeza)
73%	Oil City Confidential
73%	Green Zone
72%	Precious
71%	Up in the Air
70%	Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin
70%	The Princess and the Frog
70%	The Ghost
70%	No One Knows About Persian Cats
70%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Books

84%	Dan Rhodes - Little Hands Clapping
83%	J.M.G. Le Clézio - Desert
81%	Willy Vlautin - Lean on Pete
80%	Paul Murray - Skippy Dies
77%	Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America
72%	David Shields - Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
70%	Don DeLillo - Point Omega
68%	Martin Amis - The Pregnant Widow
61%	Siri Hustvedt - The Shaking Woman

Exhibitions

90%	Michelangelo's Dream
88%	Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa
84%	Paul Nash: The Elements
76%	Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
73%	Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde
71%	Richard Hamilton - Modern Moral Matters
70%	Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
70%	Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey
66%	Jenny Holzer
65%	Crash
61%	Henry Moore
57%	Billy Childish - Unknowable but Certain

Theatre

83%	An Enemy of the People
80%	A Midsummer Night's Dream
80%	Enron
80%	London Assurance
74%	Measure for Measure
73%	Sweet Nothings
73%	Waiting for Godot
70%	Ghost Stories
60%	Ghosts
53%	Henry V
46%	Medea

Opera & Dance

90%	Wuthering Heights
87%	Satyagraha
86%	Katya Kabanova
80%	Danza Contemporánea de Cuba
74%	Richard Alston Dance Company
70%	The Sleeping Beauty
68%	The Elixir of Love
60%	Tosca
42%	Tamerlano

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