◇ image via WikipediaToumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté is a Blues and Flamenco act. Their catalogue also touches Jazz and World music. Their sound grew out of Ballaké Sissoko, Cassius and Ali Farka Touré. Those roots explain a lot about how Toumani Diabaté arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Samba Touré, Vieux Farka Touré, Amadou & Mariam, Tinariwen and Cheikh Lô, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Vieux Farka Touré, John Brown's Body, Ketama, Taj Mahal and Matthieu Chedid, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Toumani Diabaté, reaching back through Ballaké Sissoko and forward to Vieux Farka Touré. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Toumani Diabaté connections
Toumani Diabaté grew out of Ballaké Sissoko, Cassius and Ali Farka Touré, shares an orbit with Samba Touré, Vieux Farka Touré, Amadou & Mariam and Tinariwen, went on to shape Vieux Farka Touré, John Brown's Body, Ketama and Taj Mahal. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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