Konkolikan Sambla Baan Burkina Faso

Coulibaly Samadou explains the tuning of a baan and demonstrates how it can speak; ends with a performance. "These are the best musicians the Sambla commuity has ever known." Konkolikan Sambla is west of Bobo Dioulasso.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• baan
• xylophone
• balafon
• Konkolikan
• Sambla
• Burkina
• Faso
• Africa

[spectaclemedia]

Thank you so much for these wonderful comments. I have been so lucky to work with the people who appear in my videos.

[eliotj123]

Amazing video by some amazing people. I wish I could understand what the musicians are saying with the Balafone.

[spectaclemedia]

Good question! I will try to find out. Thanks.

[zmgriffith]

Absolutely Beautiful....

[spectaclemedia]

I am very glad you enjoyed Samadou talking about the Sambla baan. His village is about an hour and a half northwest of Bobo-Dioulasso near the Mali frontier. He is an English teacher at the Université de Bobo-Dioulasso. He and his friend Alhassane Sanou helped make the videos from Burkina that I have included here. I enjoyed your video Butterfly and the Cat and will look at the others to learn more about the Cayman Islands. Mike Johnston

[rosskay]

a musical language... how brilliant... and so natural.

[andreads502]

@zmgriffith sounds like peace in africa

[healersmouth]

Fantastic film thanks. Never seen the Balafon played this way brilliant.

[comaradella]

very good thank you... MUY BUENO

[EmiMale]

@vidaripollen Are you an African?

[anycush]

I got something to say

It is better to burn out

than fade away

[vidaripollen]

africans know how to live a high life with very lite imprint .such great culture.gods garden indeed.

[vidaripollen]

africans know how to live a high life with very lite imprint .

[throbule]

The playing by these wonderful musicians is just amazing, and I wonder if they really know how very talented thay are.

Bless their hands and hearts.

Thank you for a very interesting video.