Some days ago I have discovered a video with Gasper Nali and his huge one string guitar Babatoni. Gasper Nali is a musician from Malawi, he has built a huge one stringed kind of guitar and uses this instrument to accompany his songs. He also uses a selfmade foot drum as a percussion instrument. Gasper …
The guembri is a 3-stringed plucked instrument which is beeing played by the Gnawa people in Morocco and North-Africa. The playing technique is similar to the clawhammer style used with the American banjo. One of the 3 strings of the guembri is shorter and is used as a drone – this is another similarity to …
Some time ago the new CD “At Peace” by Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal has been presented on the “First Listen” page. I was immediately fascinated by this music, so I had to search for and listen to more music played by Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal. The duo had already played in a Tiny …
Today I am listening to some great African music. The CBC has added a concert by the group Okavango to its list of free concerts on demand. For Okavango seven musician from different part of Africa have joined together – musicians who normally would not play together. Okavango has created a great mixture of African …
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