DabaBa on the Tusia Balafon Vidéos de Daouda Diabate

DabaBa on the Tusia Balafon

Daouda Diabate

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Daouda was one of my teachers. My virtuosity - some people say, I would have more than two hands - I owe to him. He was very strict with his gifted students. (Owing to this I had permanently mango-sized bumps on my head...) Here we play "DabaBa" (the big hoe) - a music for sowing. He starts alone but plays for three musicians: he combines the most relevant patterns from the solo, the base and the ostinato. Then, about one and half minutes later, I take over the ostinato and we speed up... The Tuning of the Tusia balafon is something like E'-C'-B-A-F-E. The Tusia, like the Sambla and the Siamou, use the balafon for communication. I am going to release a CD with Tusia balafon music in the early 2008 - if I find a good distributor.