Despite his father's discouragement and his family's lineage as a tribe of soldiers, Touré secretly took up the guitar and enrolled in the Institut National des Arts in Bamako, Mali.

The title, French for "My Country", refers to his native Mali, and serves as a reminder of its beauty and culture, even in the midst of the territorial conflict between Tuareg and Islamic populations that have threatened it since January 2012.

[12] Dominic Valvona of Monolith Cocktail praises the work, writing: "This is the devotional, earthy soul of Mali, channeled through a six-string electric guitar.

[14] In September 2022, Vieux released a cover album of some of his father's songs called Ali on Dead Oceans, collaborating with Houston-based group Khruangbin.

Joined by Israeli bassist Yossi Fine and Malian calabash player Souleymane Kane, this recording session – acoustic, spontaneous and entirely improvised – resulted in the birth of The Touré-Raichel Collective.

[1] In 2014, the pair released a second record, The Paris Session, that The New York Times notes "has tracks ranging from a prayer sung in Hebrew to love songs in Bambara, French and Songhai (all languages spoken in Mali).