From “African rock, African roll” to a new exploration of traditional instruments, techniques and tunings – the exiled artist ...

Born into a musical dynasty as the son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré, Vieux has carved out his own path as a virtuosic performer, fusing the desert blues of his heritage with rock, reggae ...

The son of the late African bluesman Ali Farka Touré, whose riffs forged a sonic path from the Niger to the Mississippi Delta, the younger Touré resisted his father’s wish that he become a ...

Bassekou Kouyaté's new album Ba Power is a highlight of 2015. Here, he talks to Richie Troughton about family, collaboration, the difficult situation in Mali and the ngoni, one of the world's most ...

The son of legendary singer-guitarist Ali Farka Touré can be absolutely blistering ... The married musical duo, who opened for Coldplay on a U.S. tour in 2009, was one of the first groups from ...

Acclaimed Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara talks Adam Quarshie through her favourite records, explaining the influence of powerful female vocalists from both the United States and from Mali's ...

Filmmaker Marc Huraux journeys to the small Malian village of Niafunké for a visit with double Grammy winner Ali Farka Toure in this compelling documentary. Huraux's cameras track the charismatic ...

A documentary about the famous blues musician and his journey from his hometown in Mali to the West, and back again.

The hallmark sound of guitarist Vieux Farka Touré from Mali owes as much to Jimi Hendrix as the jalis, the traditional musicians of his homeland. Like his late father, the legendary Ali Farka ...

Its cosmopolitan sophistication lit West Africa in the Golden Age of Islam during the European Dark Ages. In Buffalo Touré closed his American tour with an afternoon concert at Kleinhans Music Hall's ...