Mamadou Diabate with SambaSunda plays the Indonesian Version of Tanchi

I met the Indonesian group Samba Sunda during the TFF Rudolstadt/Germany in 2003. I was working on this piece (see my CD Kamalenya Nr 12) when they stormed into my room in order to see who was playing Sundanese music. They did not want to believe that I was playing Tusia music from Burkina Faso (West Africa); I had never met Sundanese people nor heard their music before.

Later, when they were practising - exceptionally gifted, wonderful musicians -, I was surprised: how on earth could these people play Tusia music so well, without having met Tusia people nor having studied their music before? Thereupon they said that they did not know what I was talking about, they had been playing Sundanese music all the time.

In 2004 I visited them in Bandung and we gave a beautiful concert together. Since then I am permanently homesick for Indonesia.

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• SambaSunda
• Mamadou
• Diabate
• Kamalenya
• Tanchi
• Sambla
• Tusia
• Toussian
• Sunda
• Bandung
• Indonesia
• Burkina
• Faso
• Balafon
• Xylophone

[djembebalafon]

wow burkina faso

[jingga1971]

please comeback to indonesia...

[petafulton]

bagus bagus

[Asgar170382]

anjinnkk....hade tah sumpahna....!!!!!!

salam ah ka urang2 sunda...!!!!!

ka urang Afrikana...mambo....!!!mambo..­.!!!

hakuna ma tata...???

maybe you have to try meet with the "saung mang ujo" also...then make colaboration with them also..!!!

Nice music....nice...

[castello34]

Amazing! The music is really sounds like Sundanese music....what a coincident!