Ali Farka Toure - Links

Ali Farka Toure - Mr. Mayor, the Legend
Ali Farka Toure - Commander of the National Order of Mali
Ali Farka Toure - Farmer, Music Legend, Mayor 1939 - 2006
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - In the Heart of the Moon

Read our full interview with Ali conducted in his house in Bamako about a year before his death. This is the piece referenced by the New York Times

Pictures of Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté playing the Barbican here on our sister site Flykr and a review of the gig here.

Read the review of In the Heart of the Moon

Also released recently are the wonderful Red and Green albums

Read about Ali playing the Segou Festival in Mali and see Lydia Martin's pictures of the event on Flykr

Finally, Robin Denselow has written a fine obituary in the Guardian

http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/

Photo by Damian Rafferty