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Category: Technical notes
How Djembé drums are made / Wie Djembé-Trommeln gebaut werden (Google Inc. YouTube playlist)
How Djembe and other drums are made in West Africa and world (YouTube findings as one playlist)
Postscriptum: Interested readers might also consult this yet referenced information source to learn more about the Djembé itself…
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Table of Contents: sitemap of these blog pages, current state 10-22-2022
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1 Table of Content: recent blog articles*
- Short media reference to Les Ballets Africains (and Les Percussions de Guinée) // Alpha Oulare’s current Course offers October 2022 to January 2023 18 Oct 2022
- List of West-African reference albums of Traditional Percussion Music 11 Oct 2022
- At very friendly Price / ACTION: 3-Day Djembé-Workshop at Leipzig, in January 2023 (Fri.–Sat.–Sun.): tickets for 80€ in complete (pre-order & survey here) // sounds // (+outlook: Africa Festivals in Federal Germany, to take place in 2023) 11 Oct 2022
- Thomas Ott’s biographical project Famoudou Konaté 7 Oct 2022
- International Application for Festival and Concert participation 7 Oct 2022
- First claim of the motif /MEERKATS° PLAYING DJEMBÉ DRUM(S)/ as copy-right for Mister Alpha Oulare (protected design pattern / Gestaltungsmuster) — all Rights are Reserved (against theft of intellectual properties)* 5 Oct 2022
- (Short note on) Recent concerts with the Rootsmandig ensemble and Jalikebba in September / early October 2022 3 Oct 2022
- Current Course Dates (Djembé and Afro-Dance) and Announcements // Contact form to make an appointment for Course Attendance or other Meeting // Contact by Phone 24 Sep 2022
- Children’s drumming lessons: Djembé weekly on Sunday afternoon (Trommelunterricht für Kinder in Leipzig) — Educational and salutary ressources for Kids / Activities 26 Aug 2022
- Alpha Oulare & Rootsmanding will perform at the 20th Alafia Africa Festival Hamburg on August 27th, 2022 — 2020 A/Ou portrait photograph 25 Aug 2022
- 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) 24 Aug 2022
- Percussion Courses with Alpha Oulare 21 Aug 2022
- 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.) 21 Aug 2022
- Konkobá (Berlin 1998 until 2006) 7 Aug 2022
- Public notification: Searching affordable recording computer equipment (August 2022) 6 Aug 2022
- Alpha Oulare at the 4th international Inter- and Sociocultural Africa Festival 1000 Drums on July 30th/31st, 2022, in Leipzig 5 Aug 2022
- Alpha Oulare & Sugé (Berlin 2000ff.) 4 Aug 2022
- Alpha Oulare & Rootsmanding 3 Aug 2022
- About the Africa Festival 1000 Drums Leipzig 2019ff. 21 Jul 2022
- Personal Requests 21 Jul 2022
- Social-media Facebook connectivity 20 Jul 2022
- Thoughts 20 Jul 2022
- ROOTSMANDING did not (!) perform at the Rudolstadt Festival in 2022 due to difficulties; review on African-music artists there 10 Jul 2022
- ROOTSMANDING at the Africa Festival in Ingolstadt / Bavaria, June 24th, 2022 29 Jun 2022
- DJEMBÉ — Wikipedia article on the West-African Musical Instrument 27 Jun 2022
- DJEMBÉFOLA — Two enlightening documentary films on the Master Djembe artist Mister Mamady Keïta (Rest in Peace!) by Monsieur Laurent Chevalier: »Djembefola« (1991) and »Mögöbalu« (1998) 27 Jun 2022
- Djembe comparison (visual from pictures) 26 Jun 2022
- Offer: West-African Musical Instruments as Tools of Trade — you can contact Mister Alpha Oulare to purchase these quality items manufactured by African musicians! 26 Jun 2022
- Useful hints and disclaimer 25 Jun 2022
- Invitation to Guinea Conakry / Isle of Roume : Workshop Journey in February 2023 (!) [or in later Autumn] 23 Jun 2022
- Welcome!
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PREVIEW / REVIEW
The first public announcement and invitation for 2023 dated back March 24th, 2022
It currently appears, as if the announced Music Workshop Journey to Guinea Conakry / Isle of Roume could take place a few months later that year 2023, in Autumn. Updates of the invitation will follow…
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June 25th, 2022, afternoon at the Hupfeld Center Rehearsal and Workshop Room
NOT UNIMPORTANT : Musical instruments as Djembé drums, D(o)und(o)uns of several sizes up to the great-sounding Balafon, more, Shakers and string instruments as Kora, N’Goni and Bolong, each with supply can be test-played at and purchased from Alpha Oulare(‘s) as well — you will find detailed catalog images and information on pricing for instruments handcrafted by African musicians here in soon future… POST SCRIPTUM: Meanwhile these statements have been added to this website, in first revision. Look here, please also forward as link: tinyurl.com/aotrade. We thank you!
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ALWAYS IMPORTANT AND TO CONSIDER : REALIZE : Support of Development Aid for Guinea are another concern of Mister Alpha Oulare. Contact him directly to find understanding of his ideas on international economic exchange, so in textile industry to establish manufacturing in country, entrepreneurship in this strengthening the Guinean social system and young adults and families in need.
Sewing technologies and more for textiles and clothing for Guinean collaboratives and entrepreneurs, skill training and human-sustainable-fair production? Container shipping to Guinea Conakry – administrative financial support, logistics, trade goods, technology and wares? Know how? — More on all of this here soon…
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June 25th, 2022, afternoon at the Hupfeld Center Rehearsal and Workshop Room
These eight of currently 16 Djembé drums sound authentical and good! Many more and more different musical instruments from West-Africa are offered; they can be ordered, manufactured, modified or repaired, tuned by experienced African musicians at fair prices — ask for details and costs! Interested persons are invited to try out instruments in place.
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More, further notes on the website completition shall follow here in future… Please visit these pages again! We thank you for your interest and kind consideration, any support. Be blessed!
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