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Tea With Sidi
I wrote about Sidi Touré’s extraordinary new album, Sahel Folk, for The Economist online:
Say we’re old friends. I ask you over for tea and you bring a guitar. It’s a sunny morning, so we sip and strum outside, on the fire escape. Now imagine I am a celebrated singer from Mali, with a voice as exacting as a raconteur’s. You too are a virtuoso, practiced in both the local Songhaï tradition and American blues. And the city beyond the fire escape? That’s a vast field by the Niger River, outside the ancient town of Gao.
This is the backstory to Sidi Touré’s new album, “Sahel Folk”.
Read the entire article here.
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