Vieux Farka Toure & Roberto Fonseca

Vieux Farka Touré is the son of the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré and plays in the desert-blues lineage his father helped bring to wide audiences, on albums such as Fondo and Samba and on Ali, a tribute record made with Khruangbin. Roberto Fonseca is a pianist from Havana who came to wider notice playing alongside Ibrahim Ferrer and other musicians from the Buena Vista Social Club circle, before leading his own records such as Zamazu, Yo and Yesun.

In this pairing the hypnotic, looping guitar figures of the Sahel meet Cuban piano built on montuno patterns and clave-based rhythm.