V/A Music Archives of West Africa. The 70s in Bouake CD
- CD
opakowanie: digipack + książeczka
An important inter-cultural and commercial crossroads in the centre of the Ivory Coast, the town of Bouake prospered during the 20th century around one of the richest and most colourful markets of West Africa.
Working in this town in the mid 1970s, the biologist Bernard Mondet was fascinated by the Ivorian, Ghanaian, Malian, Guinean or Voltaic musical traditions he encountered there. Armed with his Nagra tape recorder and a pair of microphones, he collected a vast number of sound documents in which Senufo and Bobo balafons, lute harps kora of the Manding, Peul and Mossi flutes and Birifor musical bows are mingled skilfully.
- For fans of the traditional repertoires of African griots and their main instruments: the kora and the balafon.
- A glimpse of musical life in the 1970s in Bouake, the second most populated city in Ivory Coast.
- A collection of traditional music recorded with Peul, Bobo, Mandingue and Birifor musicians from various regions of Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali.
01 Suba ni mansaya ("Magic and royal power")
02 Wedding music
03 Vocals, fiddle and percussion calabash
04 Balafons
05 Flute Duo
06 Flute solo
07 Musical bow
08 Sunjata faasa
Total duration : 42’30
