Afriki Djamana: Music from Burkina Faso

Track Listings

 
1. Sénégal - Gabin Dabire,
2. Djilbié
3. Bibilé
4. Guidiga
5. Kjima
6. Kalé
7. Bagà Bagà
8. Moso
9. Mamidi
10. Mana Mana Kò
11. Amadou
12. Mousso

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Afriki Djamana: Music from Burkina Faso
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The Essential Beat of Burkina Faso
Afriki Djamana: Music from Burkina Faso
Gabin Dabire
Manufacturer: Amiata Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000FEQ1
Release Date: 1997-05-27

Tracks:

  1. Sgal - Gabin Dabire,
  2. Djilbi
  3. Bibil
  4. Guidiga
  5. Kjima
  6. Kal
  7. Bagag
  8. Moso
  9. Mamidi
  10. Mana Mana Ko
  11. Amadou
  12. Mousso

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Essential Beat of Burkina Faso.......2005-03-16

This is an excellent collection of music of Burkina Fasoan music by expatriates living in Italy, heavy with talking drum and kora, flute and balafon.

Some of the songs remind me of Delta blues, in much the same way as Wassalou Music from Mali reminds me of Hill Country blues. The song "Bibile," for instance, seems to me some kind of strange cousin to a Son House song -- the drums being the snapping bass strings and the flute echoes Gabin's vocals much in the same way as the slide complemented Son's voice.

This alnum is heavily weighted in drums, but also contains a few tracks with kora and the so-called "thumb piano."

It can perhaps best be summed up by a quote from the inner notes by Matteo Silva:
"...the twelve tracks in Afriki Djamana are a small personal and poetic anthology of traditional sounds. The instrumentation and structures are therefore varied and organic; the sounds which result are earthy - the totemic timbres of gut and skin, of gourd and bone, of cane and wood. The voices of Gabin Dabire, his brother Paul, and Therese Keita seem to come from the dust of the savannah, under the shade of a mango tree."

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