Two balaphones large and small from Guinea West Africa
Komoko Sano\'s compound in Guinea
This was taken at the late great legendary Komoko Sano\'s compound in Merveilles section of Conakry, Guinea, West Africa. Taken with Nikon D90 digital camera
Didadee drummers from the village visit Bamako for our
Didadee drummers from the village visit Bamako for our recording session and play amazing music!
Mali
Didadee drummers from the village visit Bamako for our recording session and play amazing music!
Mali Young Guns session
from the \"Young Guns\" CD field recording with Siaka Doumbia nad crew
MP in Mali
Michael Pluznick playing at wedding celebration outside of Bamako in Mali west Africa
Baby naming party
Siaka Doumbia and Young Guns crew perform live at a baby naming ceremony
drum carver
Our drum carver works hard all day in the sun and het on our new djembe drums in Bamako Mali West Africa
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Mali young guns djembe drumming recording session photo
Mali Wedding
MC the young master drummer plays dunun at Mali wedding party
mali wedding ceremony
more wedding photos and shots from Mali West Africa
Grand Master Djembe Fola Aruna
Grand Master Djembe Fola Aruna Sidibe listens to himself play on a recording \"Old Masters\" (available on earthcds.com) for the first time in Mali West Africa
Brulye Mali champion
Master drummer and my second teacher is named Brulye. He was Mali (Bamako city), champion of djembe drumming
Didadee
Didadee drummers from the village at a recordng session for Mali Music available on earthcds.com
Didadee village drummers
Didadee (Didadi) music from the village!
Aruna Sidibe, Grand master djembe fola
My djembe master is Aruna Sidibe 83 years old in Mali from the Music of Mali: Old Masters CD on erathcds.com
Bobo drummers in Mali
Bobo drummers in Mali play the gourd drums, bara bendre,
Bo Bo balaphone
Bobo musicians in Mali play the balaphone,
Bo Bo drummers in Mali
Bobo drummers in Mali play the gourd drums, bara bendre,
Yagbe Onilu in Mali
Bobo drummers in Mali play the gourd drums, bara bendre,
drum carver
in Mali
Komoko Sano\'s daughter
Komoko Sano\'s other daughter
at Komoko Sanos compound in Guinea, West Africa
Michael P in Amsterdam fest
Amsterdam drum festival with Nick Ostis
Michael P in Amsterdam fest
Amsterdam drum festival with Nick Ostis
Amsterdam drum festival with Nick Ostis
Amsterdam drum festival with Nick Ostis
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I took these photos on my two trips to Mali and Guinea, West Africa where I studied traditional djembe, drumming, music, culture and African music and dance. Drummers photos feature my teachers Aruna, Brulye and Siaka. Guinea photos at the late great Komoko Sano’s home and compound.
Master djembe drummer, master of ceremonies and all around fun and good guy M’Bemba Bangoura in a rare performance in his home town and country in Conakry, Guinee, West Africa at a large community drumming event welcoming home many of Guinea West Africa’s wonderful djembe masters and drummers of all ages!
Aruna and Brulye teach Michael P Mendiani solo technique at a djembe class at Centre Togola in the Sabalibougou district of Bamako Mali. Drum class and djembe class is held here every day of the week. If you want to study djembe in Mali, this is the place to go for a djembe lesson or african dance class. These guys and their students really play djembe well! Very inspiring drumming!
Didadi is a rhythm that can be used by young people to compete at festivals and celebrations. Didadi can be played for the expected arrival of an important person or at end-of-the-year holidays.
Some say it originates from the Bougouni circle , of Mali’s Sikasso region. The didadi is also organized during the end of the year holidays. What many of us know as a dunun (double sided drum) is here called didadidunun and is the instrument played for the didadi . The hand plays the drum on the skin opposite the one hit by the wooden drumstick complementing the stick’s playing. Djembes are also used as accompaniment and one for solo or “lead”.
An amazing 6 year old child djembe drummer solos at Guinee, West African “Spectac” (big show in Conakry, Guinea).
Music similar to this and other similar high quality digitaly recorded audio recordings I did in Mali are now available for sale:
http://www.earthcds.com/africa/west/mali
About Michael
Michael Pluznick is a studio musician and recording arts specialist. Read more about Michael.
