Ai Du

Touré wrote the words and music. It was recorded at Ocean Way in Los Angeles in September 1993, with Ry Cooder producing and Mark Ettel engineering. Touré sings and plays acoustic guitar. Cooder plays mandolin and electric slide, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown plays viola, Jim Keltner drums and John Patitucci bass guitar, with Hamma Sankaré on calabash and Oumar Touré on bongos and chorus. With Lasidan, it is one of only two tracks on the album to use the full American rhythm section with Gatemouth Brown.

The Italian critic Carlo Massarini hears a song about trust and self-knowledge with a spiritual edge, drawing on the blues of both the Mississippi Delta and the desert, as Cooder moves from mandolin to slide. Cédric Klapisch used it in L'Auberge espagnole (2002), and it is on that film's soundtrack album. It has also appeared on compilations including CMJ 500 and The Very Best of World Duets. The upload in the hypersongs web is the album version, posted by World Circuit.