Touré News and Photos

Sidi Touré Sets Out On Tour This Week

Mon, January 21 2013 3:18pm - Source: The Quietus

Sidi Touré, along with a host of fellow Malian musicians, including Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba and Tamikrest, will be setting out for a three-date tour beginning later this week.

Sidi Touré Interviewed: Hatred & War Have No Place Here

Mon, November 12 2012 1:00pm - Source: The Quietus

If you've read anything recently about music in Mali, or Mali in general, it has probably been related to the takeover of northern Mali, including the cities of Gao, Timbuktu and Gao, by Islamic militants and these groups' war on music.

Tours Sad Race-Baiting Has Definitely Jumped The Shark Even For Touré

Thu, September 27 2012 3:13pm - Source: The Smocking Section

That means my classmates and I got assigned a ton of books that we didn't actually read.

The Touré-Raichel Collective - The Tel Aviv Session

Fri, September 07 2012 4:11pm - Source: BBC Music

When leading his own band, guitarist Vieux Farka Touré has lately been getting increasingly deeper into the Hendrix ian electric zone, his Malian desert roots steadily saturated by rock'n'roll seepage.

Sidi Touré: Köima

Tue, May 15 2012 5:17am - Source: Pitchfork Media

Koïma is the second album the Malian folk-blues singer Sidi Touré has released on Thrill Jockey, a Chicago label best known for putting out post-rock bands like Tortoise and the Sea and Cake throughout the 1990s, and more recently for records by Liturgy and Future Islands.

Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Where Muslims and Jews Make Music, Not War

Fri, March 02 2012 3:12pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

After a chance meeting at a German airport, Israeli pop vocalist and pianist Idan Raichel would never have guessed that he'd record an album with the son of his musical idols, the late Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré.