AFRICAN DRUM MUSIC (page 2)

The kora (harp-lute), which is found throughout West Africa, is a very beautiful instrument, not only in the sound it produces but also in its shape. It has a long neck, passing through a...

Here we find pieces ranging from Hispano-Moorish music - which gave rise to the ma’lûf (Tunisian name for traditional art music of Andalusian origin) - to the music of the desert nomads, ...

Africa's musical culture, based on a very rich rhythmic structure, is dominated by percussion instruments, particularly drums and balafons (gourd-resonated frame xylophones). This compact...

Choruses from Africa, authentic and unspoilt, alive with religious fervour, and accompanied by superb percussion, including drums, jingles and rattles. An unforgettable recording made in ...

Each year, at the end of May, the Marrakech Festival brings together the best of Berber singers. To the rhythm of bendir and tissint, underlined by the sounds of the high flute, the voice...

Cabo Verde, formerly a Portuguese colony, is a country consisting of a small group of islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of West Africa (Senegal). It has a strong musical tradition an...

Ethiopia has an incredibly rich musical heritage. Four different aspects of that heritage are presented here: folk music, religious music, polyphony from Dorzé, polyphony of the tribes li...

Let the ancestral rhythms of the African djembé (drum) and balafon (xylophone) awaken the emotions that lie deep down inside you. Celebration, stimulation, initiation… These magical instr...

A magnificent journey to the very centre of the Zulu vocal tradition. You will find a succession of carefully chosen titles representing all the authenticity, beauty and strength that ema...

The griots represent the collective memory of Western Africa. At once musicians, historians, genealogists and praise-sayers, they pass on a very rich musical and oral tradition from fathe...

When we discovered Koko, we were struck by the sheer wealth of music they produce. This group occupies a very special position in the widely renowned cultural heritage of Burkina Faso. Ko...

The group POZA plays street songs from Odessa, a free port on the Black Sea, which for many years provided a safe haven for thousands of people from Eastern Europe and Asia MinorAlik Kopy...

The percussionist Madou Djembe creates music based on traditional rhythms from West Africa. With a fine display of virtuosity, he uses the rich possibilities of the djembé to speak of tho...

Pooling their talent, Boni Gnahoré and Ray Léma have created Pédou, an album in which jazz, funk and Afro beat champion the cause of tradition, with the powerful presence of the Attungbla...

Author of his country's first national anthem, the composer and song-writer Abou Chihabi is one of those artists who have found just the right tone to express the spirit of the Comoran pe...

Tuareg, Peul, Songhay... three peoples of the Sahara, three systems of belief (a combination of animism and Islam), but the same desire to celebrate life (baptism, marriage, the return of...

The jembe drum has become very popular with young people in the West, for whom it is seen as representing freedom, a means of getting away from it all. Jean-Claude Gallet Zéa is a young A...

The Malagasy singer Mily Clément and his amazing vocal technique. Fine words and fine arrangements. Vocal.

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