Khruangbin and Vieux Farka / ‘Ali’/ Dead Oceans | Shore Fire Media

23 September 2022

Khruangbin and Vieux Farka / ‘Ali’/ Dead Oceans

Khruangbin and Vieux Farka / ‘Ali’/ Dead Oceans

Khruangbin and Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré today announce their collaborative album Ali honoring Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré. Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate. Ali’s sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, singing in the local languages of Songhay, Tamasheq, Fulfulde and Bambara. The result was the creation of a groundbreaking new genre, now well known as the ‘desert blues’, earning him 3 Grammy awards, widespread reverence and the nickname of the ‘African John Lee Hooker’.