''Ali Farka Touré'' is the first major album by Ali Farka Touré.

Track listing

All songs written by Ali Farka Touré. # Timbarma – 5:08 # Singya – 5:26 # Nawiye – 5:40 # Bakoytereye – 5:02 # Tchigi Fo – 4:30 # Amandrai – 7:19 # Kadi Kadi – 5:27 # Yulli – 5:19 # Bakoye – 4:10 # Amandrai (Live) – 10:01 Tracks 5 and 6 do not appear on vinyl.

Personnel

*Ali Farka Touré –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

calabash Calabash (; ''Lagenaria siceraria''), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvested young to be consumed ...

bongos Bongos ( es, bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. They are struck with both hands, most commonly in an eight-stroke pattern called ''martillo'' (hammer). The ...

*Toumani Diabaté – calabash on track 6

References

* ''Ali Farka Touré''at

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