Slap Hand To Hand

SLAP - Hand To Hand is a band based on West African Drums, mixing different rhythms, rituals, histories and cultures. The Mandika / Griot music represented here by Djembe, Dununs and Balafon blends with contemporary culture through VJing and Sampling with the use of Resolume and instruments like the Akai MPD Sampler.

Our aim is to merge the Mandinka / Griot and urban culture, without misrepresenting the source, causing a constant appeal to the senses and the memories of genetic entity. The drummers behind the structure of the traditional sounds, it´s rhythms and melodies with origin in ancestral symbols which are the answer to trances of various castes.

More than musicians or percussionists, SLAP work from an heritage, turning the metropolis into a dirt field where the dust rises with each beat.