1973-1980

"The bridging of Latin and African musics was well underway at this point as Touré incorporated his dialect with the emotive melodies and swaying rhythms of "Fatou", "Temedy", and "N'njjo". The recording quality sounds like it's a bit behind the curve as far as the mid-`70s were concerned, but this doesn't dull the attack of the guitars, saxophones, and Amara Touré`s ten-ton voice, the very one that got all the rumps of Senegal's social elite moving when performing in Luna Parc".

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"Fascinating story to this latest in the Analog Africa series of musical exhumations: Touré, originally from Guinea, found himself singing in Dakar with the newly-born Star Band in the late 1950s, transforming the "son" hits that had arrived in West Africa with Cuban sailors into a more genuinely African popular music. Great success was his; and in the '70s he followed the coast east to further fame with Black And White in Cameroon and then with L'Orchestre Massako in Gabon ... This early Latin-African hybrid he helped create is still much loved - witness the success of Africando - but it has to be said that Amara Touré's music remained very much a halfway house".