"His first record Hoga was a revelation when it came out in 1996 - real desert blues, or Songhai blues as Wikipedia has it - with great clicking calabash-led rhythms, light but passionate singing, and casting a bone-dry spell over everything, the weird and abrasive sound of the sokou violin. This is equally rewarding, if less startling - same general sound, though better recorded, a more mature but still essentially soft-textured voice, supported by eerily high-pitched female vocal, plus bass, calabash and guitar. Some speak of Sidi Touré as a successor to the late Ali Farka, but has his own, lighter feel. With passing flashes of old Delta blues and a solid melodic backbone, he's actually more like a somewhat jollier Boubacar Traoré".
