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| November 11, 2008
Vieux Farka Touré, Songs from Vieux Farka Touré
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Vieux Farka Touré | Fondo
On his extraordinary homonymous 2007 debut, Vieux Farka Touré both paid tribute to his late, legendary father, Malian guitar icon Ali Farka Touré, and began to distance himself from that heritage.
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Boston was a world-music stronghold even before the “world music” genre existed.
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Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Touré live at Somerville Theatre, June 18, 2009
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Over the years, I’ve seen many an act try and fail to get folks up out of their seats at the Somerville. On Sunday night, all Os Mutantes had to do was play the opening notes of Jorge Ben’s “A Minha Menina” and we all spilled into the aisles like a flash flood.
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For Longstreth, the pressure's been ratcheted up following the online leak a couple of months ago of Dirty Projectors' fifth LP, Bitte Orca (Domino) which is finally, officially out this week.
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