Yes, you only get one pick for 2008

[Auricauricle]

Ali Farka Toure: In the Heart of the Moon.

Beautiful music and your brain needs to something different and jarring.

It's like sipping straight tequila or vodka. Like your taste buds, which get tired and stale and could stand something inspired, your ears get in a rut.

[bobsticks]

Ali Farka Toure: In the Heart of the Moon.

Beautiful music and your brain needs to something different and jarring.

It's like sipping straight tequila or vodka. Like your taste buds, which get tired and stale and could stand something inspired, your ears get in a rut.

I don't know if this would quite be up D's alley but it is a mighty good album...and I agree with your observation. The Africans have different patterns of playing so the same ionian-phrygian-pentatonic thang that can get kinda hackneyed over here gets a fresh face, as it were. I used a few tracks off this one on the much-maligned "Summer Comp 2007". Good stuff.