[bubudi]

noumoudy was one of the most respected djembefolaw of the ballet era. check out the bio i wrote on noumoudy.

this footage is a morsel from the scant recordings we have of this great djembefola.
famoudou is playing sangban!

mendiani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcYA8P3hVJ

konkoba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHT_RVnwUM

[Dugafola]

my favorite arrangement of bundiani with all the dunun language. it absolutely crushes.

it also doesn't get any better than daouda K on the 'ba!!!

there's a lot of audio of these sessions out there as well.

[bubudi]

here's some bolokonondo from the same session


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-qxNcmUUG4

[davidognomo]

so, do you know when and by whom were these sessions made?

where famoudou and noumoudy playing together at Les Ballets Africains at the time?

[archetypo]

I was curious about this myself, so I asked my friend Lillian Friedberg if she recognized the recording, since she was in Germany and studying with Famoudou at the time.

According to Lilli, this was probably recorded in 87 - it was likely one of the sessions recorded for the 'infamous rotekassette', featuring Noumoudy, Famoudou and Mamady (who was still going by Kargus then), made by Rainer (dorrer?), which was sold at workshops to raise money for the original compound in SImbaya.

[Dugafola]

great stuff.

there is plenty of footage and recordings floating around with all these guys including koumbagna, lancei kante, papa sano and djume camara.