Master Guitarist of The Sahara: Ali Farka Touré 

Even sounds like the dude Josh. Has that explore show...I forget the title

This is such an underrated/under-exposed channel.

Check out Bombino, Tarwa N-Tiniri, Tasuta N-Imal, Les Filles de Illighadad or Meteor Airlines. All here on YT.

Totally agree. Thanks for taking the words right out of my mouth. 🤝🎸

Man this guy, mdou moctar and tinnarawin was the confirmation we needed to realize that we can do our american take on that style👈😏🎶✌️

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tdXRG5Ma0r0.html this video brought me here. its not my kind of music. main reason is that i dont understand anything of the lyrics wich are important for me too. BUT i like this "african" guitar style. i dont know if they got another scale or tuning. or is just the way he/they pick/play. i like oriental guitarscales a lot also. i heared the oriental scales got just 5 tones instead of "our" 8 tone scale (c d e f g a b c). i thx your for your tips. g from germany ps.( 5 min later ) i wrote this coment at the beginng of this video. and no while looking it some of my questions kind of answered

I can't believe he got that wrong.

@@aaarrrggghhhh really 😂

mali is in the north tho... its north weast if u want the perfect pronounciation

Dont use the term world music please

A music legend.

@@apararkobhattacharya1276 I wanna hear more y u don’t like that term ?!?

@@thedrunkenfish5855 because, isnt america and europe part of the world? And if we can name some music as jazz, rock, etc. Then why cant we name other music by that term? Say Qawwali or gamelan? Its a lazy,racist term

@@apararkobhattacharya1276 ahhh I see

dd que me m,2

My best friend showed me his music and I never dropped listening 🙏🏽

Master

Absolutely

More than likely his siblings and father were murdered the father so they wouldn't have to pay him the siblings so the military wouldn't have to pay them

Thank you for sharing

Been there. Still on Savannah highway in guessing. Got my drink spiked there once.

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I've seen documentaries about North African music, and much of the old traditional music will, if you play it on a guitar, sound exactly like delta blues. So it's not as much highly influenced by African as it simply IS African music. The 12-bar blues seems to be an American invention, and of course the use of guitar, and therefore also the tempered scale. I would assume that the topics are somewhat different too.

"black american genres were highly influnced by Traditional African music" Yes, but not in their guitar playing. Mostly in their rythms. Blues hardly has any african in the guitar playing. And with limited african influence of what the slaves could remember with no instruments, genres, tradition, teachers, etc as back in Africa

Yeah, the banjo is an African instrument. The scale mentioned in this video is an African pentatonic scale, played rhythmically, syncopated with blue notes or the potential for blue notes included (usually a flatted fifth or third or seventh); blue notes (notes played or sung differently than the standard) aren't a European thing. That's what makes it sound like what we now call the "blues" and I think is what catches people's ear. That's why Ali Farka Toure and someone like John Lee Hooker or Robert Belfour sound so similar -- they're playing the same scale and notes. Ry Cooder even mentioned this in a video interview about Toure's playing; he said Toure's scale and notes puts it in a "blues mode" and said playing his music next to Lightnin' Hopkins, you notice the similarity. Enslaved Africans still played music during slavery, despite cultural violence, so that's how the culture evolved and specific African retentions were maintained. "Africa and the Blues" by Gerhard Kubik dives into and explains all this; the blues, particularly Delta blues, is rooted in a West African pentatonic system (particularly in the Sudanic belt region that Toure is from) that goes back thousands of years. As someone else mentioned previously, the 12-bar blues is an American invention, it was basically a way to standardize the Delta blues. I'd say African-American music is, essentially, a continuation of African music. "Blues," as a term, is more of an African-American term to describe our way of life in the Deep South.

@@blackpolitico6 speak on it!

Ry Cooler is the Jesus of ethnic music. Love that man. Brought beautiful music to lots of us that would never have heard it otherwise.

HE MADE AN ALBUM WITH RY?????

Marius from Poland - exactly the same... my hero! and inspiratian!

That's the album I remember

Do you know how lucky you are?

@@7amanito Ya man. Saw Cooder/Lindley the same day.

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Nah ,even within Africa I'm African and this land is the most diverse in the world ,I don't speak the same language as my next door neighbour ,we don't have the same culture or create the same traditional music ,Music traditions are vast and very different within the continent

@@gidd Yes I should've said that in Africa the cultures vary so much that there's more than one can learn in a lifetime

And perhaps because Im african but its "Nee-ah-foon-kéh" for Niafunké

Literally just came across Miriam Makeba, one of the key influences to Khaira Arby who will be showing up in the next video. Thanks for the kind words, and for overlooking my mispronunciation of "caste"! 😂

@@Bandsplaining I used to teach mantra meditation (pause for eye roll) and would have said "caste" like the pauper I am had I not been mentioning it. Haha. So, Miriam was "discivered" by Harry Belafonte. Please find the song 'Zenizenabo' and blast your headphones. Something about her on that song - she's magical. Psyched about the next video (she wrote, with the grammatical prowess of a 12 year old)!

Same, I think it started for me with Tinariwen, but now I don’t think I’ve missed any artist in this genre..

They were aIreddy sIa ves so it makes sense

@@hallucinatedovens8414 wrong.

I left out the word 'music'.