Flares into Darkness

Just in case the subject of Taureg rebels should come up, say for example in my next post,  I thought I would post some Taureg...

I'm going to wrap up my long, slow and rambling series on the music of Mali with this post featuring videos of the immensely talented ...

I've been languidly writing a series of posts about the music of Mali. Using contemporary Malian musicians as a backdrop, I'...

This is going to be an odd post in my Music of Mali series in that it is going to feature no musicians from Mali. Please bear with ...

I swiped the above audio clip from KurtP's post I've never heard it sung like this at his blog A Trainwreck in Ma...

As a descendant of Sundiata Keita, the Mandinka king who founded the Malian empire, Salif Keita was born into a prestigious family. Howeve...

I've taken a much longer break than I planned from my "Magical Tour of the Music of Mali" series (Part 1: Father &...

The album which morphed into the Buena Vista Social Club was originally intended to be a collaboration between musicians from Cuba ...

No comments, just videos by the two great Mali blues musicians, Ali Farka Toure and his son Vieux Farka Toure.