Monday 29 March 2010

Classic Sory Kandia Kuyateh songs. Indept Jula Mandinla-mori dialet

I like Mandinka-mori Mandingo. It is fluid and lively. Most Gambian griouts attempt to sing in it. The ancestral dialet for jali's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF9P6ckBJjI&feature=related

Masane Ceesay, the epic by A Guinean, I hope Masane Ceesay's legacy teach us a lesson that, money can't buy you everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R49DQttaoXo&feature=related

Salif Keita
Sunjatta Keita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX3n9YAf1Cs&feature=related

Mali Sarjo By Sory Kandia Kuyateh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AZ8VYn8gMo&feature=related

An ancient song but widely sang by scores of Mandingo musicians. The song is central to the relationship between a hippo and a beautiful village girl. Fascinating.

Friday 12 March 2010

mandinka women dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOwFwF58Ds&feature=related

A fascinating group dance.

Jamba don. Wanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDrsfgEwmq4&feature=related

An interesting video of male circumcission rites, when the boys are arriving home from bathing in an open river.

A kankuran dance in group setting. The drummers sing for the kankuran. The singer is enquiring about uncircumcissed males.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEA0C7qEOtA&feature=related