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01. Mamadou Diabate - Duniya Banaba
02. Mamadou Diabate - Saya Te Fali
03. Mamadou Diabate - Farafin Denw Segenna
04. Mamadou Diabate - Seengwa
05. Mamadou Diabate - Noumou Faama
06. Mamadou Diabate - Koko Te So
07. Mamadou Diabate - Chocolat Ka Di
08. Mamadou Diabate - Frere Kanazoe
09. Mamadou Diabate - Tengmen
10. Mamadou Diabate - A Yaala Ka Na
ARTIST
TITLE
Seengwa
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
DT 2502CD DT 2502CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/22/2022

Seengwa is a tribute to the already almost forgotten musical traditions of the Sambla people of the region of the same name in Burkina Faso. The Sambla belong to the very rare peoples worldwide who have developed a language with the xylophone (the Sambla call it Balafon). It represents the tonal language of the Sambla translated into music and serves as a "substitute language". Musicians who do not understand this language cannot master this instrument. Mamadou Diabate connects it with the "here and now" through collaborations with top-class musicians from Europe and his homeland. The renowned Austrian jazz saxophonist Wolfgang Puschnig is just one of the six musicians who complete Mamadou Diabate's six-piece "Percussion Mania". In the piece "Duniya Banaba" the Balafon language is translated into French for the first time by poetry slammer Malika La Slamazone from Burkina Faso. Seengwa takes listeners on a rhythm journey -- from tradition to modernity. Mamadou Diabate and Yacouba Konate provide the keynote for this with their two balafons as lead instruments and lead into African spheres through djembe and calabash, enriched with wonderful melodies and polyphonic singing of two vocalists, strings, piano and kora as well as electric and bass guitars. Mamadou Diabate's extraordinary creativity is a never-ending stream of musical creativity that keeps the special cultural and musical traditions of his homeland alive.