What makes a drum have that special sound? Is it the wood? The place or country it is from? The goat skin or what the goat ate? Just what is it? About 10 years ago I was at a Mamady Keita workshop trying to pick out a djembe from a local seller there who was displaying his goods outside the workshop. I asked Mamady, what do you [...]]]> http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/08/12/its-not-the-drum-its-the-drummer/feed/ 3 http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/08/09/dundunba-drum-and-african-dance-party-clown-and-awesome-dancers/ http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/08/09/dundunba-drum-and-african-dance-party-clown-and-awesome-dancers/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:20:55 +0000 admin http://michaelpluznick.com/?p=1203

Community celebration known as a Dundunba drum and African dance party at the late , great performer and master choreographer  Kemoko Sano’s compound in Merveilles, Guinea, West Africa. In this dance video a Clown solos and Awesome Dancers dance at the dundunba djembe drum and african dance party.

Fun little djembe and dunun west african drum class with some fellow lovers of djembe,dununs and west african music. In this video we play the new Toca djembes at the Bali Treasures retail store located in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.

This live video features footage of a very nice djembe and dunun west african inspired drum and dance performance on Legian Beach (near Kuta)  in Bali, Indonesia. All the drummers are local except for one man from France and two from USA.

Ewe drumming is very diverse and is played in many slightly different ways here and in West Africa as well. The example here is played by Ewe master drummer CK Ladzepko from Ghana.   An Ewe musician from Togo may play a piece or instrument slightly differently from the way an Ewe from Ghana does. The Fon people of Benin also play and perform this music. They construct their villages, towns, [...]]]> http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/06/01/m-master-performs-in-mossood-park-oakland-california-part-1/feed/ 2 http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/02/19/axe-by-barabajaba-from-the-new-cd-rise-up-world-music/ http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/02/19/axe-by-barabajaba-from-the-new-cd-rise-up-world-music/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:37:44 +0000 admin http://michaelpluznick.com/?p=569

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This world and African/Brasilian (Brazilian) influenced music, percussion and drumming video with chants is from the new CD, “Rise Up” by the Hawaii and California based percussion ensemble, Barabajaba and features Zahira and Boaz on vocals,and percussion arrangements by Jesse Seymour and MIchael Pluznick. This Brazilian (Brasilian) based “HD” (high definition 1080i) piece features, congas, bata, shekere and drumming and percussion including congas. All photos taken by Michael Pluznick except for all [...]]]> http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/02/19/axe-by-barabajaba-from-the-new-cd-rise-up-world-music/feed/ 0 http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/02/18/didadee-music-of-mali-part-3-songs-and-djembe-drum/ http://michaelpluznick.com/2010/02/18/didadee-music-of-mali-part-3-songs-and-djembe-drum/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:25:32 +0000 admin http://michaelpluznick.com/?p=536

Sumba Togola from Mali West Africa performs live African chants and dance with her amazing group of traditional Didadee musicians and drummers . This is an excerpt from the new CD, “Didadee Music of Mali” available on www.earthcds.com. Enter:mali, enter: didadee

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Bira the young drum, dance and song master and teacher teaches Oxun song at our Brasilian drum and dance class in Pelerinio district of Bahia , Brasil.

Mali djembe drumming on west african style djembes drums and west african dance at it’s highest level is shown at this baby naming celebration and community drum and dance gathering. “MC” on lead cow skin djembe. Filmed near bamako, Mali west africa, a beautiful jembe jam, showing the best djembe players