Name: Bouriema Toure (Vieux Farka Touré) - Dounagan by Mali Gems
Duration: 3 min 16 s
Description: Bouriema Touré is the real name of Vieux Farka Touré. Demo song 2005 INA Bamako

Natura Sonora is both an album of imagined journeys and a homage to the immensity, beauty and mystery of the natural world.

The album was created during the first Covid-19 lockdown from my 40sqm flat in a Parisian suburb, dreaming of the beauty of the outside world.

The concept was to use music as a tool to go on an imagined journey to some of the world’s most beautiful natural places - an escape from the same view from my window of a grey, urban environment during lockdown. I chose nine stunningly beautiful, strange and mysterious corners of the world I have always dreamt of visiting but never have. I immersed myself in these places, watching video, photographs and seeking out recordings of how they sound.

These recordings became the foundation for each track, from creaking ice to underwater mangroves, goats and birds to rain and rivers, each sound has its own story to tell. I would place the ‘found sound’ recording into Ableton, hook up my Digitone synth or some drum kits and start to explore and experiment alongside the sound. I also took a lot of inspiration from sound ecologists like Bernie Kraus’ work on the musicality of nature and how sound can be a measure of an ecosystem’s health.

Natura Sonora is an ode to the majesty of nature and its power to inspire, a reminder that despite our attempts to control it, we remain in awe of its power, its beauty and its mystery. It is also an ode to the imagination, to travelling without moving and how, despite the hardship, the pandemic also pushed our creative boundaries.

I couldn’t imagine a better artwork to accompany this album than this incredible piece by Tomás Sánchez, one of Cuba’s most important living artists. His stunningly detailed landscapes explore the beauty and loss of our natural world, depicting a utopic, untouched, dreamlike scene which no longer exists and often placing a lone figure meditating before a lush, wild, green backdrop.

His work presents a paradox of mourning for what we have destroyed alongside hope and a vision of what we are trying to save - a symbol of hope within chaos.

Natura Sonora

El Búho - Altai Feat. Aeve Ribbons

Bombino tribute to Intayaden Ag Ablil, late founder of Tinariwen. Abstract. Recorded by Arnaud Contreras for a documentary series on Saharan Music / Sur Les Docks - France Culture 22/05/2014 www.arnaudcontreras.com

Bombino Ahoulaguine Alkaline

Imzad Guitare- Imetawan

Yemanjo - Mar Mar Mar (ft. Freddy Velasquez)

Enregistré par Hamza AKHABOUL@ soirée à tafsit, Tamanghasset 16/02/2015

Imarhan N'Tinezraf(vocal:Sadam)-nak asanagh selkam daglough

Whistles In The Wind

How many women
Have learned to whistle in the wind
Or learned to listen like the wind

How many women
Are able to fly with their wings
Before they're called human beings

How many angels
Are able to walk on their feet
Before we meet them in the street

How many angels
They have to become a white dove
Before they can give us their love

And how many men
Can for a while be an angel
Able in the wind to whistle

Oh do not, do not ask this kind
Of questions, before you're kind
Oh don't, oh don't question that way
Or answers will fly away

La la la la la
Have learned to whistle in the wind
La la la la la with their wings

La la la la la
They had to become a white dove
La la la la give us their love


How many women
How many angels
And how many men

How many women
How many angels
And how many men

Whistles In The Wind

Forget how to hate

Jun Miyake - Lillies Of The Valley (ThroDef Remix)

Afel Bocoum - Ciro Kaina (Boddhi Satva Ancestral Soul Edit)

Bouriema Touré is the real name of Vieux Farka Touré. Demo song 2005 INA Bamako

Bouriema Toure (Vieux Farka Touré) - Dounagan

Mali Gems

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