Release Date: 03 September 2012
Label: Cumbancha
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 890846001220
Genres: World Music Middle East
Description
Vieux Farka Touré (Mali) and Idan Raichel (Israel), virtuosic superstars from very different backgrounds, join together to create masterworks of collaboration and improvisation. After a chance meeting in an airport in Europe, Idan and Vieux forged a deep friendship that led to an impromptu get together at a small studio in Tel Aviv in November 2010.
Joined by Israeli bassist Yossi Fine and Malian calabash player Souleymane Kane, Idan and Vieux improvised a masterful selection of songs that capture the unbridled creativity and inspired collaboration of these four brilliant musicians. The sessions - acoustic, spontaneous, entirely improvised, and stunningly beautiful - could only be described as magic, and The Touré-Raichel Collective was born. On the album The Tel Aviv Session, Idan and Vieux have captured an inspired musical moment that will bring to mind classic albums such as Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder, Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert or Vincent Segal and Ballake Sissoko's acclaimed Chamber Music.
Tracklisting
Lakou Mizik
Habib Koite
Lakou Mizik
Dobet Gnahore
Idan Raichel
Wesli
Kimi Djabaté
Razia
