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Albala by Toure, Samba (CD, 2013)

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Personnel: Samba Touré (vocals, guitar, percussion, background vocals); Madou Sanogo (congas, djembe). Audio Mixer: Chris Eckman. About InnerSleeve.

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Product Identifiers

Producer
Chris Eckman
Record Label
Glitterbeat, Gtrb
UPC
4030433600429
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13046063006

Product Key Features

Artist
Toure, Samba
Format
CD
Release Year
2013
Release Title
Albala
Genre
World Music Beat

Dimensions

Item Length
5.89in
Item Height
0.24in
Item Width
5.50in
Item Weight
0.40lb.

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs
1
Notes
When you meet Samba Toure in person, he comes off as a soft-spoken man, a man who easily charms you with his abundant smile and optimistic gait. But on his third album, Albala, which in the Songhai language means "danger" or "risk," a weighted and at times defiant side of his personality emerges. To call Albala his darkest album is an understatement, but it is not a self-absorbed darkness. The cause of Toure's worry is the crashing world around him, and more specifically the troubles echoing out from his beloved northern Mali homeland. The last year has brought cataclysmic change and upheaval to northern Mali. The tragic details of this have been globally reported, so there is little point in sensationalizing them here. But the cumulative effect of these events on Samba's music seems palpable. There is an added gravity to his voice and his words, an additional sting to his electric guitar; there are sharper edges and more complex undertones in his musical arrangements. On "Fondora (Leave Our Road)" Samba sings with indignation: "I say, leave our road/All killers leave our road/Thieves leave our road/Looters, leave our road/Rapists, leave our road/Betrayers, leave our road." And on the haunting "Ago Djamba (Life Betrays Us)" Toure warns: "We do not all have the same opportunities/Here, nobody is born rich but we all have the same value/Life betrays us." As a band member, and valued collaborator of the late Malian legend Ali Farka Tour+-, Samba established a significant reputation, and through his first two solo albums Songhai Blues and Crocodile Blues (World Music Network) his confidence and musical prowess grew proportionately. But Albala is a new flash point. There is more power, there is more grit, the mood is deeper, and aptly, given the album's title, Toure takes more musical risks. Recorded at Studio Mali in Bamako in the autumn of 2012, Samba is joined by his regular band members Djime Sissoko (n'goni) and Madou Sanogo (congas, djembe) and guests such as the legendary master of the soku (a one-stringed violin) Zoumana Tereta and the fast-rising Malian neo-traditional singer Aminata Wassidje Traore. Additionally, Hugo Race (The Bad Seeds, Dirt music, Fatalists) contributes an array of subtle atmospherics on guitar and keyboards. On the opening song, "Be ki don," Samba sings: "Everybody welcomes Samba Toure" with an album as soulful and captivating as Albala, that might not be an over-statement.
Tracks
1.1 Be Ki Don 1.2 Fondora 1.3 Aye Go Mila 1.4 Awn Be Ye Kelenye 1.5 Aye Sira Bila 1.6 Albala 1.7 Ago Djamba 1.8 Al Barka 1.9 Idje Lalo 1.10 Bana
Number of Tracks
10

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