In the Heart of the Moon | 
 enlarge | Artists: Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 3877
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79920
UPC: 075597992021
EAN: 0075597992021
ASIN: B000AQ69DG
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 9 to 12 days
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| Tracks:
| • | Debe | | • | Kala | | • | Mamadou Boutiquier | | • | Monsieur Le Maire De Niafunke | | • | Kaira | | • | Simbo | | • | Ai Ga Bani | | • | Soumbou Ya Ya | | • | Naweye Toro | | • | Kadi Kadi | | • | Gomni | | • | Hawa Dolo |
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Amazon.com
Ali Farka Toure fans expecting to hear another fiery electric blues effort from the African John Lee Hooker are in for a big surprise. Toure's first album after a six- year hiatus is mostly an acoustic duo with kora master Toumani Diabate that draws upon Malian and Guinean folk style from the 1950s and '60s called Jamana Kura, which grew out of the Mande griot music tradition. Both musicians were children at the time this music was popularized and a yearning sentimentality flavors many of the songs, particularly "Hawa Dolo," one of three Toure tunes rerecorded here in that older style. Other surprises abound as well: there are only two vocal tracks from the deep-voice Toure, and much of the soloing is actually handled by the flittering Diabate. Minus a few overdubs by guests like Ry Cooder, the music here were first takes from a jam session in which the two musicians would improvising over the basic structures. Nonetheless, this loose approach matched with the stunning beauty of the playing makes it a treasure worth holding on to. --Tad Hendrickson
Album Description
In the Heart of the Moon is a summit meeting between two world music giants, guitarist Ali Farka Toure and master of the kora-the 21-string gourd harp-toumani Diabate. It is the first newly recorded work from either artist in five years and their first album-length collaboration. More an eloquent, in-depth dialogue than a jam session, In The Heart Of the Moon was recorded during three unrehearsed, improvisatory two-hour sessions at the Hotel Mande, on the banks of the Niger river, in Bamako, Mali.
Album Description
In The Heart Of The Moon is the first full length album collaboration by these two great African musicians. The original idea for the album that they duet on just one track, but their creativity cold not be contained, and the result is an album's worth of material! There were no rehearsals, and the improvised performances were recorded over 3 magical 2 hour sessions at the Hotel Mand, on the banks of the Niger River, in Bamako, Mali. With Ali on acoustic guitar and Toumani's kora, there was some extraordinary interplay between the pair. Features 12 total tracks including 'Kala', 'Kaira', 'Nawer Toro', 'Hawa Dolo', 'Simbo', 'Mamadou Boutiquier' and more. Warner. 2005.
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Awesome! Really grows on you! September 10, 2008
This is an exquisite album from Ali Farka Toure that presents some of his best work. It grows on you when listening to it again and again. Although other albums are perhaps better known and have some catchy tracks (e.g., "Talking Timbuktu" and "The River"), this album is almost perfect. "Kadi Kadi" and "Gomni" are especially good tracks; "Monsieur le Maire de Niafunke" has an engaging bass riff that stands out. We were very fortunate to have had Ali Farka Toure among us, albeit for all-too-short a time. He lives on forever in this music.
Amazing album, amazing music June 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The music from this album will take you to another world. What's even more impressive is when you find out the two musicians recorded the music unrehearsed.
Brilliant April 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is brilliant - a good choice for those new to Toure's artistry, and those already devoted fans.
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FROM MALI November 25, 2007
A GREAT COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALI FARKA TOURE AND TOUMANI DIABETE. I HAVE ALMOST ALL OF TOURE'S ALBUMS, AND THIS ONE REALLY STANDS OUT, IT IS UNREHEARSED SPONTANEOUS JAMMING WITH DIABETE, WHO PLAYS THE KORA. I WAS INTRODUCED TO THE SOUND OF THAT INSTRUMENT ON THE CD "MUSIC FROM THE HEARTS OF THE MASTERS" WITH JACK DEJOHNNETTE AND FODAY MUSA SUSO, WHICH IS YET ANOTHER OUTSTANDING RELEASE. THE KORA IS A 21 STRINGED INSTRUMENT THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN A GUITAR AND A HARP. THIS IS A TRULY EXCEPTIONAL, VERY MUSICAL CD THAT ANY MUSICIAN OR MUSIC APPRECIATOR WILL ENJOY A LOT. TWO SUPERLATIVE MUSICIANS.
Music...as good as it can ever get August 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read from one review that not even 5 million stars could rate this album. I agree. If you are a musician, and you know what it gets to play what these 2 wise monsters of music play, you know that what you have in front of you requires technique, inspiration, and lots of wisdom...
I have heard this CD a million times, and every time I listen to it I just stop whatever I am doing and see myself traveling in some magic world of feelings, conversations. Have you heard "Mamadou Boutiquier"? What a perfect masterpiece! How could in the earth someone just get together, play, and create such a beauty? How can two people, without rehearsing, who have only played once together, who play different music traditions, create something like that? How the song evolves, build its momentum through a progressive intensity, cries out so loud the power of music?
And Hawa Dolo? Ali Farka's song, not one of my favorites, reaches a different dimension in this version. The nostalgic power of this song is difficult to equal.
Kala, Debe, and Kadi Kadi's solos... my gosh! I don't know, I listen to this music and I feel overwhelmed with humility, with admiration to how much these two musicians must know about life, about human beings, about the strings inside us, to do what they just did.
Remember that this is not an improvisation, as Ali says in the cover. They both knew what they were playing, even though they had never played together. They understood a language that for most of us is a mystery.
Thank you Ali Farka and Toumani, the beauty of your work is so inspiring!
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