Category: Discography

List of West-African reference albums of Traditional Percussion Music

The following LIST represents no discography, but refers to a short article posted here yet weeks ago, then it remained to be still incomplete; it took some time but actually no efforts until we added —for this occasion— a searchable list on the artist and album names with links to the Google Inc. YouTube and Discography portal search engines — maybe helpful to discover new or known musical tracks… A FURTHER LEGAL EDUCATIONAL RESSOURCE FOR FRIENDS OF AFRICAN MUSIC:

// WEST-AFRICAN MUSICAL REFERENCE ALBUMS
// OF TRADITIONAL PERCUSSION MUSIC:

Africa Djole: Live 1978   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Ballet Warraba: Bonya   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Fode S. Bangoura: Fakoly   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

M’Bemba Bangoura: Fandji   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

M’Bemba Bangoura: Wali   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

M’Bemba Bangoura: Wofabe   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mohamed Bangoura: Percussions et chants Baga   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Serge Blanc: Le tambour djembe   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Seckou Cobra Camara: Djembe Tigui   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Soungalo Coulibaly: L’art du djembe   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Yelemba D’Abidjan: Hommage   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Abdouli Diakite & Mamadou Sidibe: Jebebara   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Abdouli Diakite: Tambacounda Dunun ni Don   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Sidiki Diallo: Kayleen Ci Jamma Gi   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Thione Diop: Kham Saa Thiosanne   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Adama Drame: Great Masters of Percussion   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Ensemble Fa Kiyen Yiriwa: Djembe and African Drums   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady N’Toman Feita: Sakoudougou   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Fore Fote: Wombere   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Jam Ak Jam: N’Dadje   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamadou Kante: Les Tambours du Mali   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: A Giate   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: Afö   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: Balandugu Kan. CD 2   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: Mandeng Djara   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: Mogobalu. CD 1   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: Nankama   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: Sila Laka   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mamady Keita: Wassolon   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Famoudou Konate: Guinee—Percussions et chants Malinke   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Famoudou Konate: Guinee—Percussions et chants Malinke. Vol. 2   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Famoudou Konate: Hamana Folikan   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Famoudou Konate: Hamana Mandenkono   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Famoudou Konate: Rhythmen der Malinke   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Famoudou Konate: Rhythms and songs From Guinea   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Kumbagna Konde: Kumbagna Konde   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Magbana: Magbana   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Les Mervelles D’Afrique: Diya   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Alpha Oulare: Alakhawonmaly   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Fadouba Oulare: Come drum   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Les Percussions de Guine: Volumen I   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

SAF: Alliance   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Mangue Sylla: Kon koura   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Fara Tolno: Binye   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Fara Tolna, Fode Bangoura: Farabakan   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Baba Toure: Daakan   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Seny Toure: Dunuya Mukolonma   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Wulabakan: Collection Bakine, Malinke Percussion   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)

Zulu: Zulu   (search @ Google Inc. YouTube A, B || Discographies)


// Many thanks to www.danza-africana.com

// and kikoangomadanzaymusica.blogspot.com

// for the references to these musical albums from West Africa,

// here extracted for your further recherches…

// Please study the original electronic ressource in detail.

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Postscriptum / reminder:  Please do not forget Alpha Oulare’s Percussion Course dates and announcements, invitations and mercatory offers. These are crucial.

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As helpful external ressource: Kikoangoma – Danza y Musica Africana [African Dance and Music, 2009/2010]: Ritmos Africanicos [African Rhythms] — further thematic Blogs to be found / WordPress CMS — finally: Mamady Keïta teaches Traditional Djembé (200X, video tutorials meanwhile as public ressource)

Of course more* electronic or printed/scanned texts can be found than this one (by Kikoangoma — Danza y Musica Africana), mentioning Alpha Oulare & Sugé’s debut album as musical reference for Guinean traditional Dances and Rhythms preserved; this ressource has been found by occasion recently… [Please click (what a word!) on the before currently red-colour hyperlinks!]

Technical issue: Using the Google Inc. Internet search

Postscriptum: * common sense (to some), that you also may try the Google Inc. Internet search to find similar Blog systems that provide information, here about West-African Percussion (click link!) — Many thanks to all contributors, all good wishes to them… (We feel links like these might be helpful to Internet readers/surfers, by this creating structures more toward a true Hypertext in global result).

(Another click above to find more images and their sources)

Side note: WordPress content management system (CMS)

(Surface of the WordPress Reader section)

Maybe consider also, to create an own WordPress account, or, to install as well the WordPress application also for mobile devices, this, even if it was only as reader of existing blogs, by this receiving the opportunity to submit comments, submit own searches, receive update/news notifications and more…

(Pardon us…)

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As final contemplation watch / listen to Mamady Keïta (1950–2021): Rhythmes Traditionels di Mandingue (Traditional Mandinke Rhythms) (Beginner—Intermediate—Advanced) (200X)

We will often return to this authority, for he was one of Alpha Oulare’s important teachers and it appears to be both necessary and helpful to understand these influences of Alpha’s own music and musical teaching theory and practice.

{Mamady Keïta teaches Traditional Djembe Beginner Level. This video demonstration having been made »available to the general public so everyone searching to learn djembe from a true djembe master can have access to it. For more information about learning traditional djembe and dunun please visit [Mamady Keïta’s former] school’s website www.ttmda.com [Tam Tam Mandingue Djembé Academy]« (Mamady Keïta’s and heirs’ Google Inc. YouTube channel). May he rest in peace / may he not become forgotten! The tutorial contains these rhythms: Fankani (at 11’10”), Djabgbe (19’10”), Soli-rapide (26’50”), Kuku (33’25”), Mendiani (39’50”), Djaa (44’45”) and Moribayassa (at 50’30” — many thanks so to Alejandro S. for providing this first tracklist).} — You may try to download this video’s subtitles in several languages here.
[Mamady Keïta teaches Traditional Djembe Intermediate Level (same source: Mamady Keïta’s and his heirs’ official Google Inc. YouTube channel). Content: Background on the djembe, Greeting (at 3’11”), The instruments (4’26”); Kassa (5’30”): Dununs (5’58”), Djembé 1 and 2 (8’02”), Kassa ensemble (9’32”); Senefoli (11’50”): Dununs (12’19”), Djembé 1 and 2 (15’30”), Senefoli ensemble (16’27”); Sofa (18’35”): Dununs (19’10”), Djembé 1 and 2 (20’52”), Sofa ensemble (21’58”); Denadon (24’10”): Dununs (24’36”), Djembé 1 and 2 (26’09”), Denadon ensemble (27’04”); Djansa et solo (30’30”): Dununs (31’02”), Djembé 1 and 2 (33’08”), solo original (34’15”), Djansa ensemble (36’17”), Djansa solo (37’40”): Garangedon et solo (40’01”): Dununs (40’33”), Djembé 1 and 2 (42’19”), solo original (43’46”), Garangedon ensemble (45’30”), Garangedon solo (47’06”); Mendiani solo (49’20”): solo original (49’47”), Mendiani solo (51’30”); Soli-rapide solo (52’55”): Solo original (53’24”), Soli-rapide solo (55’28”); Farewell (at 57’06”) — thanks to Percussionworld for this more detailed track list.] — This video does not provide sub-titles.
[Mamady Keïta teaches Traditional Djembe Advanced Level (same source: Mamady Keïta’s and his heirs’ official Google Inc. YouTube channel). Content: Dunungbe (at 4’20”), Soliwoulen (10’40”), Tiriba (15’50”), Kalikambe (20’30”), N´goron (25’25”), Soko (31’40”), Koredjuga solo (36’30”) and Soboninkun (at 44’40”) — again thanks to Alejandro S. for providing a tracklist.] — Try to download the video’s subtitles here.

»We don’t just play the djembe to play a drum. We play the djembe to tell a story. Every rhythm has its story. It’s not enough to be technically good, but knowing the history of the rhythms you’re playing is very important. Where I come from, these stories are what we pass on from generation to generation. In the Manding tradition, we learn orally. We don’t write anything down. So we must memorize the rhythms and follow the way our Master teacher. A video can never replace a teacher. It is a tool to help students learn. It’s more of a key that helps students open the door to learning.«

(Mamady Keïta, ibid.)

We are thankful for this his advise and wisdom.

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Welcome and thanks to new Percussion Students — first Announcement of Weekend Workshop in Autumn 2022 — new Pricing for the Bandcamp Sugé .mp3 re-release — two Videos from the Berlin Cultural Carneval 2007/2013 — weekly Sunday Courses for West-African Dance (Afrodance at the Leipzig Hupfeldcenter 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.)

THIS IN SHORT: We thank all new musical students and friends that joined Alpha Oulare’s Djembé lessons on this Saturday, August, the 20st, 2022, for the first time: what mighty sound yet, when playing together in group. Now about three female and four male drum students might hopefully attend the weekly two-hour lesson regularly — — yet having been announced, but not as yet concrete in time: this Autumn’s two-day weekend workshop later in the year… Students and all interested musicians shall receive the opportunity to learn and perform special own compositions by Alpha Oulare then. Might the event become sound-recorded?

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CLICK BELOW TO CONNECT TO THE BANDCAMP PORTAL OF ALPHA OULARE. You will find the before entrance prices for the year 2000 Sugé Album now reduced to common standard. The opening track SUGÉ offered here for only 80 euro-cents. / Page description and colours have changed…

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Two Google Inc. YouTube videos from the Berlin Carneval of Cultures / Karneval der Kulturen 1996ff. (2007 and 2013)

(2007 Berlin Carneval of Cultures with drum players from Guinea)
(Six years later, in 2013, again drummers from Guinea)

Alpha Oulare himself … participated at the cultural festival in before years as member of  La Fôret Sacrée, Konkobá, Sugé [links from Alpha’s newly updated Discographies profile] and as solo performer respective in free communion with other musicians and dancers, guests of the Carneval.

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KONKOBA. By occasion another search at the SoundCloud music portal resulting in songs named Konkoba (embedding here at first Mamady Keïta, you should find also pieces by Tourmani Diabaté, Cissoko System and maybe more artists from West Africa and beyond):

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Reminder:

»Liebe Freunde der afrikanischen Musik!!! Wir starten wieder durch und hoffen, ihr habt genauso viel Lust wie wir!!! Unter Beachtung der aktuellen Coronaregelungen können wir wieder unterrichten. Folgende Kurse bieten wir für euch an:

»Djembe für Erwachsene: Samstag 16–18 Uhr

»Afrotanz : Sonntag 15–17 Uhr

»NEU!!!! Djembe für Kinder: Sonntag 14–15 Uhr (ab 4 Jahre)

»Weitere Termine und Gruppen auf Anfrage!

»Ort: Ludwig-Hupfeldstr.16 / Leipzig

»Wer kann kommen? Alle die Spaß an westafrikanischen Rhythmen haben, diese gern erlernen möchten, sich auspowern oder einfach Freude am Musizieren verspüren möchten! Es ist für jeden was dabei: schaut vorbei und probiert es aus – wir freuen uns auf euch!« (Facebook, Mai 2021)

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Konkobá (Berlin 1998 until 2006)

Alpha Oulare remembers KONKOBÁ Berlin 1998–2006 Iko Iko (beware of this song: a:world b:club c:radio). — Petit maole / M’Bo / Kola muna / Wata Pipi — Concentrate on SUGÉ then Alakhawonmal, DIEU sera avec nous!! G O D will help us!!

Beware of this song:

(Releases of the mere trival and disappointing Iko Iko version from 1998)

Iko Iko originals, here first presented instead of later cover versions / interpretations of rather different approaches:

Please allow Dr. John: Iko Iko (Dr. John’s Gumbo, 1971) as side-reference here, before:
(The Dixie Cups: Iko Iko, circa 1964)
(Natasha England: Iko Iko, 1982)
(Natasha England: Iko Iko. Logan’s Alternative Vocal Club Mix, 2021) — to end here…

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Alpha Oulare & Sugé (Berlin 2000ff.)

Here you can listen to the time-less work by Alpha Oulare and his year-2000 Ensemble Sugé : Alakhawonmaly!! DIEU sera avec nous!! GOD will help us!! —You still may purchase the album, best as digital copies of the original (!) tracks from BandCamp, by this supporting the artist and his family.

(This exclusive mix contains by intention an odd reverberation/echo effect — therefore, instead, you should consider to purchase the original tracks / whole album at fair price via BandCamp!) If the track should not be playable, we are to suppose missing Internet connectivity or a server/network problem at sides of the Internet Archive, U.S. California.
(Cover of the 2022 digital album re-release)

You will find a transcription of the album booklet’s liner notes at the referenced external webpages…

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