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Senufo balafon music

30 Mar 21 - 05:18 AM (#4099923)
Subject: Senufo balafon music
From: Jack Campin

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

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


30 Mar 21 - 05:23 AM (#4099924)
Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: The Sandman

Thankyou


30 Mar 21 - 08:29 AM (#4099945)
Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Senoufou

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.


30 Mar 21 - 09:24 AM (#4099953)
Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Jos

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


30 Mar 21 - 11:00 AM (#4099963)
Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: leeneia

Thanks for the music, Jack.


30 Mar 21 - 03:25 PM (#4099987)
Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Senoufou

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.


31 Mar 21 - 12:11 PM (#4100122)
Subject: RE: Senufo balafon music
From: Vic Smith

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