Voyageur is a cache of songs never heard before by Malian master Ali Farka Toure
published : 28 Mar 2023 at 05:00
The late Malian singer and guitarist Ali Farka Toure took his music on the road, travelling from his beloved farm in Niafunke, in northwestern Mali, to thrill audiences around the globe, until his untimely death in 2006.
I had the good fortune to see Ali perform solo and with a trio on a number of occasions in Japan during the early 1990s, and to interview him several times. Once, during an interview in a hotel coffee shop in suburban Tokyo, he launched into a song…
