Heaven's having fun rocking with Ali Farka Toure. This video's from last.fm and is a live peformance of the track 'Amandrai' (from Talking Timbuktu) from the Segou Festival in Mali and features Bassekou Kouyate on ngoni along with Farka Toure.
Previous posts on Ali Farka Toure: 1, 2. Also two posts on his son, Vieux: 1, 2.
Some of my earlier posts about music from West Africa, in particular Mali: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
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