Live With Banning Eyre at WFMU on Transpacific Sound Paradise 5/19/09

Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré

17.9K plays 13.4K downloads
Released May 19, 2009
Plays 17.9K
Downloads 13.4K
Comments 0
Favorites 9
The songs in this album are licensed under: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Please check individual tracks for their respective licensing info.
1.
Kurbu by Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré
04:45
2.
Waina Bibiyo by Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré
06:21
3.
Tamala by Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré
06:03
4.
Maru Kiray by Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré
06:04
Album info
Description

WFMU Playlist and Archive
Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure is a brilliant guitarist, songwriter, producer and bandleader from Niger in West Africa. He co-founded his country's first internationally-touring electric traditional band, Mamar Kassey and now leads his own band as well as accompanying other West African artists.
Abdoulaye's music has a deep bluesy feel incorporating traditional rhythms and pentatonic scales of Niger but also heavily influenced by Malian icon Ali Farka Toure as well as the Southern Saharan Tuareg guitar sound of bands like Tinariwen. On this week's show Abdoulaye plays a few acoustic duets with his buddy, Afropop Worldwide radio producer and author / journalist Banning Eyre and we preview a few tracks from his forthcoming solo debut cd.
-Rob Weisberg

Producer

Rob Weisberg

Engineer

Jeff Simmons

Genre North African