Boubacar Traoré (Kar Kar)

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I just saw a really great French documentry about Boubacar Traoré, a singer and guitarist from Mali. Quite an interesting story and the music was very good too. I'd never heard of him before...there's not much about him on ILM and I was wondering if anyone out there is familiar with his music.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

I've heard some amazing tunes by Boubacar on the Desert Blues compilations. Check them out for a general overview of music from North African / Sahara countries.
http://www.networkmedien.de/html_e/products_pages/anthologies_pages/desert_blues_2.html

― sibsi (sibsi), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

thanks, man, just ordered the Desert Blues 2 compilation, looks fantastic.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

both desert blues comps are good, check out the first one as well

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

His new album is Kongo Magni. Beautiful stuff: sparse, rolling, atmospheric desert blues. Draw a line from Tinariwen to Ali Farka Toure, and he's on it somewhere.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

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