Comments on: VFT, Toumani Diabate and Diaspora World Music Tour Dates.

By: Nycsummer

Nycsummer — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:27:27 +0000

I just saw them yesterday in Brooklyn, NY. They were incredible! I posted some pictures and video here:

http://nycsummer.peakhollow.com

Enjoy.

By: AfroMusing

AfroMusing — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:00:15 +0000

@mulumba – Yeah i hope they play there too, will keep an eye out for tour dates.

@Frederic – They indeed are extremely talented and have this gravitas about them, like you said ‘royal attitude’. Your comments remind me of one Alan Lomax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_lomax) who actually travelled around collecting music from the US…perhaps we need an African Alan lomax to catalogue these great musicians for posterity. Luckily there are people online doing abit of that…
http://bennloxo.com/
http://ntwiga.net/blog/
http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/ and many others.

By: Frederic N'sienie

Frederic N'sienie — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:32:35 +0000

Hello ! how come we never hear from these guys in our media back home. I mean true media coverage, with background information,history,discographie,most memorable performance etc…
It is true that Most of them are old heads, but they are very talented performers with know how. Some of the young performers and producers would work magic if they could play as many instruments as these guys can.
They also could use some of showmanship and royal attitude the old guard has.
I would be interested in their work for the purpose of sampling their sound and studying their style of music composition or the way they create their fables and stories.

By: Mulumba

Mulumba — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:43:23 +0000

Heya, wish I was there to watch two of Africa’s finest play live! Hope we’ll have some concerts on the continent once summer rolls through.