Ali Farka - Monsieur le Maire de Niafunké

[pauvreful]

Ali farka Touré mon enfance !!!

[MrArtnatural]

mm lovely song listening as i look out over my small town to the hills and lakes sun and cold mists....

[Happysundaze]

This wonderful collaboration fills me with joy, I find the whole album lifts me and makes me feel optimistic and yet accepting about life's trials. Thank you gentlemen for such a great gift,

[SABAxxKHAN]

isnt this by diabaté?

[B0ULLIE]

Sad to see a quarrel on Youtube surrounded by such a wonderful song.

Seems to happen on every "Good Natured" video too...

Damn man...

Humans need to step it up.

[youceftheoz]

i dn't have the feeling that this music is from ali farka toure??

[milanmusicmaker]

@youceftheoz

From the album in the heart of the moon of ALi Farka Touré and Toumani Diabate

[youceftheoz]

@milanmusicmaker thats explains it there is the Toumani Factor here

Ali's style of music is different :)

[pdlyonspoetry]

always the magic of true life - wonderful artist.

[photonak]

nice father nice...

[gratefultiger]

i have this wonderful album,Ali was a master,a great & noble man

[kipwestus]

splendid

[YoMamaBeenLurkin]

Ali Farka Toure, the greatest guitarist of all time.

[monos112]

I am southern african this song reminds me of home brilliant

[DoktorTTA]

WOw, more than great . . .

[milanmusicmaker]

This song is so peacefull.. I really love it

Stop the arguments and enjoy the music or dont listen.

[beeroosterm]

Boring and formulaic. Why does everybody give such credit to AFT?

[tamcon72]

@beeroosterm

Because he knows music down to the root, and you, evidently, do not.

[beeroosterm]

@tamcon72 Au contraire, Mr. Tampon, I've been a musician for 35 years. Now pray tell, what do you mean by "down to the root"? And don't give me some wiseass answer like "well, if you don't know what it means, you just don't get it" Put it in words, Mr. Nebulous.

[tamcon72]

@beeroosterm

Hit a nerve, I guess. If you've been a musician for 35 years, your response should be a bit more adult. Like not calling me[a woman] a tampon. Maybe you've made music for 35 years, but duration doesn't mean you're knowledgeable about all idioms; it makes you good at whatever your focus is. Maybe you just don't know much about Malian folk music--a "root" of so many other forms, like our blues. Your use of the term "formulaic" to define something that isn't suggets that.

[beeroosterm]

@tamcon72 Look up the word irony...better yet, don't bother - it's too late for you. I've been playing blues guitar the whole time and know all the greats/have all their recordings. But Malian folk music is not a root form of the delta blues. I cannot teach a primer on the origins of delta blues in 500 characters, but it was a UNIQUE form synthesized in the black communities of the deep south of the USA in the late 1800's, not something "brought over" from Africa, etc.

[beeroosterm]

@beeroosterm And don't talk to me about Scorsese's film and the AFT's racist rants on how there are "no black Americans, just blacks in America". Makes me sick. And you should do your homework before you attempt to argue from authority. I argue that AFT's playing is boring and formulaic because he is isn't a very good blues guitar player, regardless of his "origins".

[tamcon72]

@beeroosterm

An adult response. Sort of. I am confused by your use of the word, "irony," as it appears inapplicable to this discusssion. Perhaps a vain attempt to deride? Nice.

I was always taught that African American blues was influenced by idioms from the African continent, as this would make sense. I must admit your contention that the blues just sprang up out of the rocks spontaneously is one I hadn't heard. Do you really discern no connection between blues and this music?

[beeroosterm]

@tamcon72 I was referring to Socratic Irony: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning. That is, I know what I'm talking about - and I'm trying to draw out your misconceptions so I can attack them logically and with reference to the known scholarly literature, thus countering your argument and allowing you to understand the subject without reference to the racist ideas you hold.

[tamcon72]

@beeroosterm

Very perplexed; you are writing intelligently, but are not addressing the question I posed. Thanks, I'm educated, and don't need Socratic irony(!) explained to me. Also, you needn't condescend to, tutor me, is it? If I am not mistaking you, you wish to tutor me on the origin of the blues? I tend toward autodidactism, so, thanks, no. Lastly, your contention that, because I allow for a different genesis for blues music than you do I am somehow racist is, well, bizarre.

[beeroosterm]

@tamcon72 Can't make arguments 500 characters at a time, nor can you seem to get past semantics. I did not imply that the "blues just sprang up out of the rocks spontaneously", I stated that the blues did not have Malian folk music as a root form. Oh, fuck it. AFT is still a racist asshole - and a dead one at that. Tired of this shit. The delta blues is a uniquely American form, rooted in slavery but cultured and nourished by Americans - and reinterpreted by the British. Fuck AFT. Shoot me...

[MrBaebel]

@beeroosterm: all native american culture has been exterminated by the white man, so there's no such thing like american culture unless you talk about american natives. in fact, everything is lent, borrowed or stolen from all the different backgrounds american population consists of. It's a little bit crazy to say black slaves invented the delta blues out of nowhere. they took their music with them when abducted by americans. neither yanks nor tommies invented something, they simply stole.

[gt2e]

@MrBaebel couldnt have said it better and as a irish man i know all about anglo saxons and there theiving ways

[beeroosterm]

Respond to this video...And I think you DO need Socratic irony explained to you. Too late. And you're the condescending one, Miss Pedantic, so stop telling me what I already know. I'm tired. Now fuck off and try and find some other signs of intelligent life on YouTube...I'm tired, cranky, and in a mood to hate everyone. Fuck Political Correctness! Fuck all racist niggers! Fuck Islam! Fuck the Pope! Good night - and have a pleasant tomorrow...

[MrBaebel]

@beeroosterm: ...confusion everywhere... everyone is run, run, run... (Fela Kuti: Black President)

[712dal]

@beeroosterm

You are a massive DOUCHE

[712dal]

@beeroosterm

You are a massive DOUCHE and clueless.

FUCK YOU!!!!

[beeroosterm]

@712dal Yup, I'm a douche. And I've come to clean out all the clueless idiots. You're first! And fuck you, too.

[pantera363]

@beeroosterm you said blues isn't brought over from Africa, but I'm going to have to disagree. It was basically a fusion between American and African influence. I quote Sylviane Diouf who notes that, ‘‘Even an untrained ear can recognize the similarities that exist between the blues and Islamic-influenced West African music." All I needed to say.

[beeroosterm]

@pantera363 I'm skeptical, but I will look into this...

[beeroosterm]

@pantera363 OK, I've spent some time with Diouf and am immediately concerned that she is not an ethnomusicologist, but an historian. Without spending a more significant amount of time reading her, I cannot render an accurate opinion. As regards your quote: quite often, people hear what they want to hear, and without significant scholarly agreement, I think Diouf makes a nebulous statement. But thank you for your trouble; it is worth looking into when I have the time...

[Cumar2000]

@beeroosterm If you've been a musician for 35 years, you must be a total failure. Otherwise, you'd be spending your time better than trolling on YT defecating puerile obscenities a toddler would be ashamed of. And your "wiseass answer" (sic) that you can't explain in 500 characters is the familiar burrow you bolt into whenever you're challenged. Given your numerous daily reactions, you've all the time and space to elaborate but you obviously can't go beyond hollow pretense based on cut & paste!

[Cumar2000]

@beeroosterm If you've been a musician for 35 years, you must be a total failure. Otherwise, you'd be spending your time better than trolling on YT defecating puerile obscenities a toddler would be ashamed of. And your "wiseass answer" (sic) that you can't explain in 500 characters is the familiar burrow you bolt into whenever you're challenged. Given your numerous daily reactions, you've all the time and space to elaborate but you obviously can't go beyond hollow pretense based on cut & paste!

[BRUTHAWAR]

great music

[TheLafemmenoir]

I miss him so. He put his heart and sould into his music and you can feel it. Beautiful!

[iburale]

there is something calm and peacefull about the land his is walking on.this music truly universal. oohh mother africa.

[twareg]

@iburale beautiful words !

[iburale]

@twareg thx my favorite one is LASIDAN...if anyone has it pls post it...god bless

[fulani5]

oh-my heart!!

[mayperso]

una musica magnifica ... :-)))

[sesapotube]

wow

[gqwestcoast]

hahahhahaha i can't take it anymore it goes inside me

[gqwestcoast]

it right here the origin of the blues

[ncbloom]

occupants of spaceship earth - we are all ONE !! thank you ali.

[queenshaniquia]

i love is music, it's a very good melody.

[solangetornabene]

hermoso,alegre,esperanzador

[bouhsis]

C'est la pureté!

[MetalMilpa]

mejor de lo que imagine... no me gusta del todo pues es demasiado alegre, pero esta bien, me agrada.

[Nuragika]

Stupefacente

[KourosGeo]

r.i.p ali... from athens...!!

[muzikforthesoul]

This song hold a place in my heart and will always do so ~ You just can imagine Touré sitting there and playing on this if you just close your eyes.

[daksoum2007]

les mort ne sont pas mort,ali reste tjr eternel car il e dan nos coeur.

j n compren pas c kil di ,helas,mais ses interview ki m ont le connaitr.c un grand,vraima un don d Dieu.

[Madmachine73]

@muzikforthesoul Boy u made me smile by doing so.

Cheers for sharing that way.

[LIMBO559]

¡Qué canción! ¡sencillamente hermosa!

[forumalias]

jon says they were

[flcsanto]

So beautiful so very beautiful...peace and thanks to the publication...from Brazil.

[VraiDiouf]

He truly was Monsieur le maire de Niafunké, Rest in Peace Grand Monsieur Ali Farka Touré.

[kichw]

sweet melody..always africa