| There's plenty of instrumental colour, jolly balafon playing, flute and vocal chorus. |
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| And the tinkle of kora and the woody tones of the balafon xylophone are skillfully combined with the sounds of an Egyptian orchestra. |
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| The erhu, accordion, balafon, flute, marimba, and numerous other cultural instruments, are blended together. |
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| I've done a lot of research into traditional African instruments, the kora, the balafon, the gembe, the flute. |
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| Camara also combines the sounds of the balafon with Chad MacQuarrie's electric jazz guitar and Darren Parris' bass guitar. |
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| One composition may highlight the possibilities of the balafon whilst another concentrates on the ngoni or Kora. |
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| Later, he played balafon, but guitar was a rare instrument and in high demand, so he continued to be drawn to it. |
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| There was some work to find a way to get the n'goni players discovering the balafon of region. |
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| In the depiction of two seated balafon players, features of twinning and androgyny historically have been seen to be important Dogon genesis motifs. |
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| Banjo, rattle, gong, xylophone and balafon, drum, flute, and over fifty-five others are described technically, musically, physically, culturally, and often historically. |
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| Native to Senegal, Aly offers you some sweetness with a mixture of traditional instruments such as tama, balafon, doum and modern instruments. |
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| Acoustic drums, n'goni and balafon, as well as the man's own rich voice, lock in so smoothly with the tasteful studio smithery of Yves Wernert that the contrast vanishes. |
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| The vibraphone goes to school with the balafon and enriches it. |
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| He was already established as a kora and balafon player in Africa. |
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| The rhythmic, all-acoustic backing is provided by kora, balafon, and Djelimady's guitar, and against this the singers swap their declamatory stories and praise songs. |
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| But for some, when there isn't any kora, ngoni or balafon, it's no longer African music. |
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| It is also the Balatigui who is responsible for teaching the balafon to children from the age of seven upwards. |
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| There's a balafon on another track and I invited one of my cousins who's a rapper to guest on another song. |
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| Other common names for such instruments in West Africa are balo or balafon. |
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| Crocodile River Music will be playing music of Mali, Brazil and Trinidad, blending djembe, balafon, steel drum and seven-string guitar. |
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| AoThey still have the balafon, the instrument he played, and swore that it is original. |
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| Famoro Dioubate is a balafon master from one of the most prestigious griot families in Guinea. |
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| He brings a band which includes six and twelve-string guitars and balafon, a wooden percussion instrument not dissimilar to the xylophone. |
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| Richard, who was just four at the time, was transfixed by the sound of the balafon. Realising this was an effective way of drying his grandson's tears, Richard's grandfather went out and bought him a balafon of his own. |
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| At the same time, he learned to play the kora and transgressed the tradition which says that the balafon should be his family's instrument of honor. |
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| Accompanied by simple guitar chords and subtle backing vocals, Mariam launches into a soft, languorous ballad before the rhythm is upped a tempo and carried away on the balafon. |
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| Everyone knows he started out as a young child prodigy, playing the balafon in the local church in Minta at the age of five and making his own guitar shortly afterwards. |
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| In the closing day, The beautiful historic Chellah hosted in the early evening, the sounds of the African balafon played by the Malian artist Aly Keita joined by Ribab Foulani Bouhcini. |
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| Sidiki's band was a rollicking ball of energy with guitars, bass, drums, kora, balafon, dancers, singers and a voodoo-style masked Spirit on stilts. |
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| On the desk is a figurine playing the balafon, a keepsake from the culture minister of Ivory Coast, and a Liszt figurine playing the piano, an object that for years Mr. McKnight kept on the top of his piano. |
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| My last three albums, which revolved around the ngoni and the balafon, were totally fabricated in the sense that I made a deliberate choice to go in that direction. |
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| Lassana Sidibé: Yes, we also built an instrument called a balafon. |
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| It also has a resonant membrane like the ones that can be seen on the African balafon and a spinning cap that can shut off the tube and produce a sound without an echo. |
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| The sacred balafon instrument, known as the SossoBala, has been perceived as the symbol of the freedom and cohesion of the Mandingue community, which is spread across a territory that once belonged to the Empire of Mali. |
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| Nevertheless the attentive listener can enjoy the little flutes pygmy-style in the background and the balafon phrase that follows the rhythm of the stick. |
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| I became the composer and the balafon soloist of the group. |
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| Special mention Djibril Diabate on balafon, which reminds us the virtuoso Ali Keita by crying that African musical instrument that really has enormous possibilities for percussion. |
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| His latest album, In Peace, is produced by Segal but features an African band including guitar and the marimba-like balafon. |
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| Lansine Kouyate, balafon maestro from Mali teams up with David Neerman, electric vibraphone sorcerer to form the musical universe of Kouyate Neerman. |
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