Senufo balafon music

Subject: Senufo balafon music
From: Jack Campin
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 05:18 AM

We have one Mudcatter with first-hand experience of this I think?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2_vIam229w0

Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 05:23 AM

Thankyou

Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 08:29 AM

Haha yes! The Senufo tribe are found in Ivory Coast, Mali and Burkina Faso, and this balafon music is heard quite a lot around West Africa.
Personally I find it a bit repetitive and boring (sorry to my Ivorian Senufo husband!) It goes on and on and on. (A bit like me sometimes hee hee!)
My user name is an adaptation of the word Senufo. My husband's father, a Senufo, was called Noufou (their name for Noah) from Nafamadougou in Northern Ivory Coast. 'Fou' means 'mad' in French.

Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Jos
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 09:24 AM

Maybe Senoufou should be Senoufolle. Unless the 'fou' bit is your lovely husband.

Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: leeneia
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 11:00 AM

Thanks for the music, Jack.

Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Senoufou
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 03:25 PM

That's so Jos. I sometimes call him 'Senoufou le Fou' in fun. And he sometimes calls me ' BooBoo Toubabou'. (Toubabou is a white person) We're both quite mad.

Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Vic Smith
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 12:11 PM

I love balafon playing and listen to a lot of it. To my mind the all-time master of this is instrument is the Malian Kélétigui Diabaté (1931 – 30 November 2012). He made many innovations including playing two balafons tuned differently so that he could change the basically diatonic instrument into an almost fully chromatic one.
When you have an hour to spare give your ears, in fact your whole being a treat by listening to Great masters of the balafon - A tribute to Kélétigui Diabaté