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Diam
Released 11 June 2004
- Iris
- Mi Wawa
- Dendecuba
- Yaw
- Kelimanta
- Mi Malama
- Mansa
- Hammadi
- Hassina
- Wadiur
- Bary
- I Dagua
- Fabe
- Diam
- Leminakhu
Liner notes
On Daby Touré’s first album for Real World, the songs tell of Daby’s life, of the people around him, and of the world in general. He sings of relationships, his family, freedom, and above all of being positive when times are hard. It is perfectly fitting then that the title, Diam, means peace, something that Daby has looked for throughout his life.
The album took Daby several years to create; locked away in his room, with his own home-studio and equipment, he began to write and arrange songs, controlling every aspect of the creative process from composition to arrangements to performance and mixing. That was important. Daby was in pursuit of a very individual musical vision, and he needed the time, space and solitude to make it a reality.
“The music that I play is based on exploration, on original compositions. It’s like a painter who gets up to paint a painting. I get up in the morning, I pick up my guitar and I start working. I don’t know where I’m going but I go.”
After several years of hard work, Daby teamed up with electronic musician and digital wizard Cyrille Dufay to develop the sound further. The result of all this experimentation, exploration and hard graft is Diam.
Further Listening
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Released 19 March 2007
Stereo Spirit is both a message to the world, to those who are sleeping and who need to wake up, as well as an attempt to offer some kind of musical solace in troubled times. With his rich voice soaring through the songs, sometimes accompanied only by the punctuated tapping of his fingers on the fret board, it is easy to see that this is a work of serious personal expression. -
Daby Touré & Skip MacDonald
Released 09 March 2009
A mini-album that captures the magic of this unique creative union, that sees songs - some by Touré, others by McDonald - transformed via imaginative, instinctive collaboration. Crafted at Real World Studios, ‘Call My Name’ is a spellbinding record, the superlative result of focused energy, creative license and a famously pressure-free environment.
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