NEW ALBUM

"KOÏMA"

Sidi Touré

OUT ON APRIL 17

ON THRILL JOCKEY RECORDS
 
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Sidi Touré - Koïma


"Koïma" out April 2012 on Thrill Jockey Records

Sidi Toure - Koïma
Sidi Touré - Koïma | Cd | Thrill Jockey


Sidi Touré - Koïma
Sidi Touré - Koïma | Lp | Thrill Jockey

Sidi Touré & Friends - Sahel Folk (Thrill Jockey) - Out January 25th


"Sahel Folk" Out January 2011on Thrill Jockey Records

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Sidi Touré & Friends "Sahel Folk" | Cd | Thrill Jockey


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Sidi Touré & Friends "Sahel Folk" | Lp (inside) | Thrill Jockey

Videos


Sidi Toure - Ni See Ay Ga Done from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

8mm footage by Frédéric Wasiak, edited by Covalesky.
Sidi Touré - Koïma - Coming on Thrill Jockey in April and available for pre-order now:
http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Sidi-Tour/Ko-ma




Sidi Toure and friends - Sahel Vert - Live at Toronto - 09/30/2011


Sidi Toure and Friends - Bayan - Live at the The Sanctuary for Independent Media - 10/06/2011

Sidi Touré on The Takeaway Show from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.


Filmed & edited by Vincent Moon
Sound by Teresa Eggers & Gaspar Claus
Produced by Warp Films
shot in Bamako, Mali, january 2008


Sidi Touré and Jambala Maïga - "Taray Kongo" from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Jambala Maiga is a virtuoso of kuntigui, a monochord guitar also known as the comsa in Niger


Sidi Touré and Yehiya Arby - "Artiatanat" from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Yehiya Arby played with Ibrahim Hamma Dicko. Dicko is known as one of the premiere Songhai musicians, a testament to the diversity and richness of Malian music


Sidi Touré and Jiba Touré - Adema from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Jiba Touré was born in 1955 in Gao and has never left the city. His soulful playing is a highlight of the album. He was a good friend to Sidi and died in June 2010, shortly after learning his album would be released. It is dedicated to his memory.


Sidi & Douma from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

It's a traditional song, during the rehearsal of the album.
Douma Maiga is a master of takamba (one of three Songhai music styles) and is known in Mali as a virtuoso of the kurbu (three string guitar)

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  • Genre: Afro-beat / Blues / Roots Music

    Location Bamako, Ma

    Profile Views: 101436

    Last Login: 1/3/2013

    Member Since 1/31/2007

    Website www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=12775

    Record Label Thrill Jockey

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Thrill Jockey Records is proud to present, Koïma the second full-length album by Malian songwriter and guitarist Sidi Touré. Sidi's music comes from Gao, a city in the north of Mali, and draws inspiration from traditional music and religion, but is informed by western blues, rock, and culture. The winner of two Malian national awards for best singer, Sidi was leader of Gao's regional orchestra, The Songhaï Stars, and is a nationally renowned figure in his home country. In 2011, Sidi released Sahel Folk, his debut album for Thrill Jockey, and toured North America for the first time. This tour took him to prestigious venues and festivals, including New York's Lincoln Center, Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, and the Chicago World Music Festival. Through Thrill Jockey's introduction of Sidi to new audiences, he is beginning to achieve well-deserved success and critical acclaim abroad. Koïma is the natural progression from Sahel Folk, as Sidi has moved from an album of duets, recorded all in one take in his sister's home in Gao, to a quintet recorded in a studio in Bamako. With Koïma, the intent was to record a different side of Songhaï music from the style captured on Sahel Folk. Thanks to the simplicity and the sobriety of Sahel Folk, listeners heard the Songhaï music in its purer form, its sparse soul exposed to everyone. On Koïma, the music is still distinctly Gao, but represented this time in a much richer and luxuriant way. We move from the intimacy of a quiet meeting between friends to the celebration of an evening of dance. On Koïma, Sidi is able to more fully realize his vision for his music. Accompanied by a guitarist, calabash player, traditional violin (sokou) player, and singer, Sidi has given us ten new songs that naturally mix tradition and modernity, African magic and city-dwelling dilemmas. The songs are personal tributes to the Songhaï folk music traditions, which, depending on the rhythm, are called Takambas, Holleys, Gao-Gaos, or Shallos. The album title Koïma literally means "go hear." Koïma is an emblematic place of Gao, "a Dune with his feet in the waters of the river Niger, and with his head touching the sky," says Sidi. In Malian folklore, Koïma is the meeting place for the most powerful wizards of the world. Sidi received permission from the dune's chief to go on the dune and to swim in the Niger. This album is an offering to the mystical power of that place.

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Sidi Touré "Koïma"


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Sidi Touré : Guitar, lead vocals
Credit Johnathan Crawford

Sidi Toure
Oumar Konaté : lead guitar
Credit Zaccaria Senouci

Sidi Toure
Alex Baba: calabash
Credit Zaccaria Senouci

Sidi Toure
Charles-Eric Charrier : bass

Leila Gobi
Leïla Gobi : backing vocals
Credit Susana Millman

Zoumana Téréta
Zumana Téreta : Sokou (violin)

Douma Maïga
Douma Maïga : Kurbuu on "Ni See Ay Ga done"

Sidi Touré & Friends

Sidi Toure
Sidi Touré
Jiba Touré
Jiba Touré
Jambala Maïga
Jambala Maïga
Douma Maïga
Douma Maïga
Dourra Cissé
Dourra Cissé
Yehiya Arby
Yehiya Arby
Dourra Cissé
Douma/Yehiya/Sidi/Jiba/Jambala

BIO

Sidi Touré made his first guitar as a child, constructing it from his wooden writing slate in the ancient town of Gao, Mali. Once the heart of the Songhaï empire and burial place of its Askia kings, the town rests between the Niger and the encroaching ocean of sand known as the Sahara Desert. The Songhai empire was the last of the great empires of the Sahel, reaching its zenith under Soni Alibert (Sunni Ali) in the mid 400’s. Sidi Touré was born here in 1959, but to be born a Touré, a noble family who trace their lineage directly from the Askia kings, carried a significance and onus of a past that reaches directly into the present. Like another Malian noble turned singer, Salif Keita, Sidi Touré faced a conflict between the inexorable pull of music and the expectations of family and society. Touré's family had been sung about, and sung to, by traditional griots for centuries, but until a small boy challenged the rules, the Touré's did not sing! Despite his family’s disapproval (Sidi’s older brother would often break his homemade guitars in protest), Touré became the lead singer of his school’s band. In 1976, Touré became the youngest member of Gao’s regional orchestra, the Songhaï Stars, who played bi-annual festivals like the Bamako Biennale and toured both regionally and nationally. Early on, etiquette and convention demanded that he sang in Bambara, the regional language, which often found Touré singing lyrics in a vernacular he did not understand. This changed in 1984, when he won the award for best singer for “Manou Tchirey,” a song of his own, written in the Songhaï language. After winning the same award an unprecedented second time in 1986, he took the band to the northern regions of Mali and to Niger, where Songhaï was spoken regularly, and toured much of the western Sahel region. Sidi does not, however, only focus on the traditions of Songhaï to inform his music. As a young man, he would often be seen sporting a leather jacket and sunglasses and listening to J.J. Cale and Kenny Rogers. Sidi’s sound both captures and challenges his roots. The music moves from the translucent swaying takamba to the trance inducing Holley, while the lyrics often address many non-traditional issues. Sidi has a critical mind and his songs have a purpose. For example, in “Adema,” Sidi and his collaborator sing about how to electrify and modernize their country. “The songs must come from within,” says Touré. “If I sing about things and there is no change, then it will have been a waste.” He strives to be more than a singer, but in fact a creative artist that affects change. At its heart, Sahel Folk is an album of friends reuniting around a glass of tea. It’s Sidi Touré’s second album, but the first time most of his collaborators have been documented. Chronicled in a live “field-recording” style at Sidi’s sister’s house, the simplicity of the takes highlight the beauty of the songs and the skill of the players. Each track on the album is a duet recording of Sidi and one friend, a product of a very specific two-day process. On the first day, the friends would meet, play, and choose a song over a glass of tea. On the second day they would record the song, allowing themselves just two takes to retain the spontaneity of the recording and reunion. It was the original intent of Covalesky, the album’s producer, to create an historical document about the traditions of Gao, and to mix the audio of Sidi and his friends’ songs with street recordings and interviews. However, once the recording started, everything changed. Covalesky puts it best when he says “In the face of such beauty and power delivered so simply by Sidi Touré and his friends, there was nothing to add. Everything was there.”

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