Toure, Ali Farka - Green (Transparent Green Vinyl, RSD 2023) RCA984426.1

Toure, Ali Farka - Green (Transparent Green Vinyl, RSD 2023) RCA984426.1Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2023 Release Date: 4 22 2023 Format: LP Label: BMG Quantity: 1100 Release type: RSD Exclusive Release Celebrating the great Ali Farka Tour, this reissue of his 'Green' album will be the first vinyl issue since the 80s, on limited edition transparent green vinyl. Side A 1. Sidi Gouro 2. O Kata Gouna 3. Devele Wague 4. Zona Side B 1. N'timbara 2. M'baudy (Vinyl Edit) 3. Petenere 4. L'exode

all of these songs are based on post-Marcusian cliches sophisticated enough to get the average rock fan thinking hard

Liner Note Essay by David Frick

alongside rappers T3 and Baatin

jaw-dropping lift-off with early blues standard "Trouble In Mind

It features all the tracks from out-of-print and sought after mini-album The First Of The Microbe Hunters

John The Gun - Live

their songs of breath-taking complexity also possessing powerful emotional immediacy

Hook Me Up

8 Alle Psallite Cum Luya

And there's covers on here

the album’s eleven songs bristle with pent-up energy

the album segues into the similarly bodacious rocker “Motorcycle Boy”—a feisty love song inspired by classic cinema outlaws like Mickey Rourke