Not north but west African music. Thanks for giving time to let people know about this great man.

@aaarrrggghhhh

10 ай бұрын

I can't believe he got that wrong.

@kano--

4 ай бұрын

@@aaarrrggghhhh really 😂

@yarou26thewise_yt82

2 ай бұрын

mali is in the north tho... its north weast if u want the perfect pronounciation

This dude is like the history channel for music

@kornysinclair9145

2 жыл бұрын

Even sounds like the dude Josh. Has that explore show...I forget the title

Please keep finding people that deserve to be heard. This was great

@egregius9314

2 жыл бұрын

This is such an underrated/under-exposed channel.

@gustavmeyrink_2.0

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Bombino, Tarwa N-Tiniri, Tasuta N-Imal, Les Filles de Illighadad or Meteor Airlines. All here on YT.

@jeremysimpkins2474

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Thanks for taking the words right out of my mouth. 🤝🎸

@watvrwemakemusic1983

2 жыл бұрын

Man this guy, mdou moctar and tinnarawin was the confirmation we needed to realize that we can do our american take on that style👈😏🎶✌️

@otis7778

Жыл бұрын

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ppiMtKlufcSWopM.html this video brought me here. its not my kind of music. main reason is that i dont understand anything of the lyrics wich are important for me too. BUT i like this "african" guitar style. i dont know if they got another scale or tuning. or is just the way he/they pick/play. i like oriental guitarscales a lot also. i heared the oriental scales got just 5 tones instead of "our" 8 tone scale (c d e f g a b c). i thx your for your tips. g from germany ps.( 5 min later ) i wrote this coment at the beginng of this video. and no while looking it some of my questions kind of answered

A few years back I had the immense pleasure and honor to work with this man and his band when they came to Charleston South Carolina to a little club called the pour House I was a volunteer sound engineer at the time learning to use their system and my very first show was running sound and production for Ali, He and his band were very gracious and very kind and patient with me as I had never seen half of the instruments they were bringing to the stage and in his infinite wisdom and patience taught me everything I needed to know to make his music sound proper. I will never forget this experience!

@alsadigramdan2597

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@royrush5374

2 ай бұрын

Been there. Still on Savannah highway in guessing. Got my drink spiked there once.

THANK YOU FOR COVERING ONE OF MY GUITAR HEROES

@jimiclifrecords545

2 жыл бұрын

dd que me m,2

@HMonk-hd1zr

2 жыл бұрын

My best friend showed me his music and I never dropped listening 🙏🏽

@eddyjansen9882

2 жыл бұрын

Master

@markusantonio4866

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@toolguyslayer1

2 жыл бұрын

More than likely his siblings and father were murdered the father so they wouldn't have to pay him the siblings so the military wouldn't have to pay them

Ali Farka Touré is a World Music Legend, more people should know about him in this decade and century.

@apararkobhattacharya1276

2 жыл бұрын

Dont use the term world music please

@PabluchoViision

2 жыл бұрын

A music legend.

@thedrunkenfish5855

2 жыл бұрын

@@apararkobhattacharya1276 I wanna hear more y u don’t like that term ?!?

@apararkobhattacharya1276

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedrunkenfish5855 because, isnt america and europe part of the world? And if we can name some music as jazz, rock, etc. Then why cant we name other music by that term? Say Qawwali or gamelan? Its a lazy,racist term

@thedrunkenfish5855

2 жыл бұрын

@@apararkobhattacharya1276 ahhh I see

Actually , Ali was in the UK in September 1987, myself and a friend promoted his first gig in the UK in Hereford (an agricultural town in the West Midlands) . We arranged this through Nick Gold of World Circuit Records ( of Buena Vista Club fame) .

My parents had the CD he did with Ry Cooder. Stuck it on randomly one day as a kid and have been a fan ever since. Remarkable, wonderful musician. Saw his son, Vieux Farka Toure' live not long ago and he carries his father's torch beautifully.

@jakkimanzitti5031

2 жыл бұрын

Ry Cooler is the Jesus of ethnic music. Love that man. Brought beautiful music to lots of us that would never have heard it otherwise.

@luchadorito

Жыл бұрын

HE MADE AN ALBUM WITH RY?????

What got me into desert blues was a friend of mine showing me the band Songhoy Blues from Mali. Eventually I went down a rabbit hole where I found Ali Farka Toure and his music. What I found was mesmerizing and peaceful. What an amazing musician and influence on music

Alot of the western world forgets that primarily black american genres were highly influnced by Traditional African music ,african americans are african descendants after all

@atefkhelili..8135

2 жыл бұрын

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@RegebroRepairs

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen documentaries about North African music, and much of the old traditional music will, if you play it on a guitar, sound exactly like delta blues. So it's not as much highly influenced by African as it simply IS African music. The 12-bar blues seems to be an American invention, and of course the use of guitar, and therefore also the tempered scale. I would assume that the topics are somewhat different too.

@foljs5858

2 жыл бұрын

"black american genres were highly influnced by Traditional African music" Yes, but not in their guitar playing. Mostly in their rythms. Blues hardly has any african in the guitar playing. And with limited african influence of what the slaves could remember with no instruments, genres, tradition, teachers, etc as back in Africa

@blackpolitico6

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the banjo is an African instrument. The scale mentioned in this video is an African pentatonic scale, played rhythmically, syncopated with blue notes or the potential for blue notes included (usually a flatted fifth or third or seventh); blue notes (notes played or sung differently than the standard) aren't a European thing. That's what makes it sound like what we now call the "blues" and I think is what catches people's ear. That's why Ali Farka Toure and someone like John Lee Hooker or Robert Belfour sound so similar -- they're playing the same scale and notes. Ry Cooder even mentioned this in a video interview about Toure's playing; he said Toure's scale and notes puts it in a "blues mode" and said playing his music next to Lightnin' Hopkins, you notice the similarity. Enslaved Africans still played music during slavery, despite cultural violence, so that's how the culture evolved and specific African retentions were maintained. "Africa and the Blues" by Gerhard Kubik dives into and explains all this; the blues, particularly Delta blues, is rooted in a West African pentatonic system (particularly in the Sudanic belt region that Toure is from) that goes back thousands of years. As someone else mentioned previously, the 12-bar blues is an American invention, it was basically a way to standardize the Delta blues. I'd say African-American music is, essentially, a continuation of African music. "Blues," as a term, is more of an African-American term to describe our way of life in the Deep South.

@ngang1957

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackpolitico6 speak on it!

I was like 16 or 17 years old when I first heard him back in the 90's, and he absolutely floored me.

@mariuszfidzinski7474

2 жыл бұрын

Marius from Poland - exactly the same... my hero! and inspiratian!

Such an underrated master guitarist. RIP to the great Ali Farkas Toure.

Merci 🙏 depuis le Mali 🇲🇱

We forget how much influence music from Africa has had on western music without realising it,amazing hypnotic rythms.

Without a doubt the Talking Timbuktu album is one of the most underrated albums of all time

An example of humility, braveness, creativity and inner trust. A shame the Al Qaedan fanatics didn't even grasp a drop of the artistic and cultural gold that had came out, blinded by hatred, ignorance and greed. Thanks God Malians value their heritage and have recovered it! By the way, what a complete and serious approach you did here; so enriching, thank you so much!

It was a very sad day when Ali passed away,leaving a legacy of some of the finest guitar music I have ever heard. I first heard Ali in the 90s,which got me into Mali music,expanding my choices of the to other musicians embracing the deep deep desert blues. What a wonderful person Ali was.Gone but never forgotten.

I clicked as soon as I saw Ali farka toure. I’ve recently started exploring his music not too long ago, thank you.

What an incredible showcase, thank you for telling this story.

I was in the audience at jazz fest 1994 w Corey Harris watching Toure and Cooder.

@7amanito

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know how lucky you are?

@deltabilly1

2 жыл бұрын

@@7amanito Ya man. Saw Cooder/Lindley the same day.

Damn, I was just watching your earlier videos and thinking "I wonder when Bandsplaining will upload again"

Talking Timbuktu was a large part of what I listened to for a year I spent in the 90's living and traveling through HI, USA, SE Asia/Nepal/India, and South Africa. Recently ordered a CD of The River... it reads "Made in West Germany" huh! Thanks for shedding light on an artist many more need to know and from which our future music will grow... Check out the program WoPop at KEXP in Seattle it is the best weekly radio show covering this genre of music, cheers!

@DM-hw4cr

2 жыл бұрын

That's the album I remember

A very beautiful presentation and tribute to a great man. Thank you! One point of correction, this is West Africa, not North Africa.

Such an interesting topic. Thanks for putting me onto this kind of music

@atefkhelili..8135

2 жыл бұрын

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Excellent portrait. One small point: “caste” is pronounced the same as “cast.”

@Minabezerai

2 жыл бұрын

And perhaps because Im african but its "Nee-ah-foon-kéh" for Niafunké

“Forced migration.” That’s a nice way of putting it.

@hallucinatedovens8414

2 жыл бұрын

They were aIreddy sIa ves so it makes sense

@airobot4088

2 жыл бұрын

@@hallucinatedovens8414 wrong.

I have always associated Mali with music, never even had a clue about the separatist movements and islamic extremism- it’s such a shame that a musical place like Mali had a music ban by the extremists. Ali farka Toure’s music has brought me back from the brink of desperation, such transcendent sounds he produced were like the desert itself- sprawling, minimalistic and enlightening. A Great man and an all time great artist.

He is just phenomenal. Anyone who likes Ali, I highly recommend Toubab Krewe

Bandsplaining. You came from nowhere and everywhere. How I love these videos, every time a new one comes it seems to come at the exact moment I needed it. I hope you get as much joy from working and researching these that I get from learning and listening to them. I hope you continue and keep up the great work.

These performers defy the typical day to day struggles of African life in very troubled times and bring us joy and hope for their people and inspiration to us all to understand.

Saw his son Vieux Farka Touré playing yesterday and Bombino a couple of months ago. Can truly say that these artists bring such a different kinda energy than I was used to from Western bands. Not to say the latter is worse, it's just a different way they give into the music which really speaks to me.

People outside of Africa have much to learn from their music tradition

@gidd

2 жыл бұрын

Nah ,even within Africa I'm African and this land is the most diverse in the world ,I don't speak the same language as my next door neighbour ,we don't have the same culture or create the same traditional music ,Music traditions are vast and very different within the continent

@Lorand0O

2 жыл бұрын

@@gidd Yes I should've said that in Africa the cultures vary so much that there's more than one can learn in a lifetime

I discovered Ali Farka Touré in the 1980's and became a huge fan ever since.

My friends from the Netherlands, Hermien and Anton,while traveling through Mali,were guests in Alis house in Niafunke. He was kind of mayor or chieftain, very respected

Excellent video! I bought his album NIAFUNKE several years ago out of curiosity and loved it. There's nothing like hearing great music that comes from outside your own frame of reference.

The Kuti and his family are amazing.

Thank you for teaching me about Ali Farka Toure.

I can’t thank you enough for this piece on a player who changed my ears. He’s a master musician that too many still don’t know of

Forgot about this guy. Remember his album Talking Timbuktu

Thank you so much for shining a light on a music I as a Black American would've never heard of. Thank you

Loved this vid. May the algorithm smile upon you.

Ali Farka Tour'e plays the most beautiful music...I love it like no other

I don’t think I would’ve ever heard of African music if it wasn’t for your channel.

@atefkhelili..8135

2 жыл бұрын

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@johnny1834

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Still loving Zamrock.

You are incredible. I've been listening to African music since the 80s and have felt it to be a lonely journey. Ive seen a few of your videos and all are remarkable. Your research, delivery, video clips, explanations, all are of the highest caliber. Ali Farka Toure is one of my favorites. You seriously did this man justice. Keep this up. This is exciting stuff

Thank you for let us know the story of Ali Farka Toure Sir, the great musician and humanity to the nation....❤ from India..💐🙏

There is a great album by Toure and Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, the last song on the album is amazing

so cool and so captivatingly interesting! super stoked for more on this topic, can't wait, thank you!!

Just over here waiting for bandsplaining to blow up so he uploads more often. This is killer content.

Got to meet his son and amazing guitarist, Vieux Farka Touré, in Denver some years back. He'd been hitting the US tour circuit hard before the pandemic.

Amazing little short, has proper made my day. Love Ali Farks Toure,

Thank you to celebrate this so great musician, Farka is with us forever

Amazing video! Thank you for research and sharing!

Thank you for this!!🙏🏾🙏🏾

This is such a great channel man. Thanks for all the effort you put in, it's appreciated.

Love this guy's guitar playing !!!

Thank you for covering this Legend!

I’m starting to really love this channel you rock man keep it up!

Your videos are so good. Please keep doing what you're doing!

Would be cool to see a video about Franco, another African guitar legend

I think ethio-jazz (Ethiopian jazz) would be an interesting topic.

I LOVE your content. Thank you.

Love this man. Great video.

Fantastic work of art research. Thank you very much.

Thank you for this one. Always lap up anything Saharan rock.

Excellent video. Very interesting and worthwhile video.

This is the most beautiful music in the world I think

thank you so much for this high quality content. AFT is one of the greatest

what a freakin' excellent surprise! ♥️ he's a gem who deserves so much more recognition.

Thank you for displaying a real creative source.

Thanks for this! I've been aware of Ali Farka Toure for years, but it's so great to learn more about his history

Been listening to him for a few years now. Really love that guitar tone. 😊

Thanks so much 🙏, great storytelling

thanks for your videos, very educational and nice to watch. love the music from Mali and it was a good learning about all of it. cheers

Such life in the recordings and music

man that was very interesting thank you for making this videos and other very rare music content. It truly is indeed amazing.

Thanks for doing the research and posting this video!

He used his art to elevate his people; to be beloved and make a difference in the world and leave it a better place is a life well lived. His story inspires me to not give up in the face of hardship and constant failure.

Wicked production, thanks for this video

Thank you for making this!

Bless you brother! I was hoping someone would put this video together. I’ve been hoping that for about 10 years, and then you did it. Ali Baba was a Saint.

Man you should upload more often. Your vides have turned me on to so many styles of music that I wasn't aware of earlier.

This is such an underrated channel. I hope you're channel gets the recognition it deserves.

One of the most expressive guitarists I have heard live. Thank you for posting this important artist.

Thanks for posting.

You introduce me to so much!! Thank you!!!💋

This was very entertaining and educational, thank you for creating this

Sincere appreciation for this video. Very informative of a genre, a root, a great derivitation of something i am familiar with. Awesome video!

In an era where I'm finding less and less good KZread content, this stands out as some of the absolute BEST. Keep it up!!

Liked the video very much. Thanks.

this channel is pure gold.

West Africa really is the wellhead of all popular music throughout the world.

LOVE THIS CHANNEL !!! THIS IS INTELLIGENCE !!

Excellent video, thank's.

I’ve been listening to this guy for 7 years now and I always just liked the sound and I treated his music like background noise unfortunately. It wasn’t until recently I decided to give the music more of a deep listen. And it is good. This video couldn’t have came out in a better time. Thanks brother for the great content as always👍🏼

great video thank you Bandsplaining !

Beautiful documentary 👌🏿

Amazing video. One of the most underrated styles.

Have his CDs and cassettes since the early 90s I think,he's one of the greatest- no matter what genre.

I recently got into some amazing Mali music and your channel is a goldmine! Thank you!

Out of american cruelty we got blues jazz and rock and roll..definitely see where modern blues sounds originated..great guitar player