Balafon solo by Alya Dioubate

Alya is a young musician from Guinèe-Conakry.
This video is an example of his fantastic ability with the Balafon.
He plays with the most biggest ballets of Guinèe, from Wofa and les Etoiles de Faretà to Les Bayfall de Guinèe.
He also play the djembe too with a very great maestry.
If you want to study with him, you can find him at Conakry in Dixin ville.
Recorded in March 2004.

Now you can buy the last album of his group from:
www.myspace.com/lesbayfalldeguinee

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• alya
• dioubate
• djembe
• balafon
• africa
• guinea
• percussion
• live
• conakry
• african
• solo
• improvisation

[AlMandingo]

go to dixin and ask of him or ask about the bayfalls de guinee, the actual where he play...

don't worry in conakry is easy to find a person!

if is an artist is too muhch easy!

ciao

[AlMandingo]

You can find him at Conakry in guinea...

The location is Dixin!

All the artists of conakry knows Alya!

You can ask to everyone!

[asusbagel]

@ceilingkatt because it COULDN'T POSSIBLY be complex unless western culture had influenced it. you're a fucking idiot.

[croon4u]

There aren't enough stars available to rate this. Brilliant is too dull a word for this performance. So glad I got to see this! Have always loved any music of the Dioubate clan...

double-WOW.

[kratanuva725]

@bhaal1 Of course, it's in 7-edo.

[DIxoFOurthNOx]

when i saw this i looked at the comments and everyone said you can find him in guinea...So he might know where i can can get onboard the Rusalka. :)

[winstonfc]

Upgrade to modern instruments.

[flimflamflor]

Genius!

[jadwyga]

what a groove!

[MrJJ221]

awsome

[PorroFirst]

I guess this guy doesn't have much else to do in his free time.

[sugarbrownrabbit]

@ceilingkatt it's pure West African because it' mention in the epic of Sanjata, which is the tale of the rise of the Mali empire.

[ceilingkatt]

@asusbagel woah