Pan African Orchestra

The Pan African Orchestra was founded in 1988 by Nana Danso Abiam to develop a new style of orchestral music that explores the classical foundations of African music, utilizing African traditional and neo-traditional sound sources and concepts as a framework point of reference, the group is based in Ghana.
The Instrumentation of the Orchestra consists of: 16 atenteben flutes, 3 kora flutes, 4 gyile xylophones, 4 kora harp-lutes, 4 gonje fiddles, 7 elephant tusk horns, 2 mbira hand-pianos, 2 algaita oboes, fontomfrom drum ensemble, atsimevu drum ensemble, 5 kpanlogo drums, 5 djembe drums, gome bass drum, 7 dondon hour-glass drums. To these are added other special instruments according to requirements. The orchestra is dedicated to the integration of the various rich musical traditions of many of Africa's regions into one beautifully synthesized whole, creating a truly African system of symphonic music.

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[EmperorCQX]

Wow... i like African traditional music. I think i'll search for more.

[haroldrichter]

These guys are really great, i am glad you liked it.

[dondoman]

@haroldrichter I've played with the PAO a few times and there are a few good friends on this video. Do you have a better quality video? Thanks.

[haroldrichter]

dondoman, they area bunch of talented musicians. Unfortunately this is the only video version i have.

[haroldrichter]

dondoman, they are a bunch of talented musicians. Unfortunately this is the only video version i have.

[thomas649]

these are the best musicians one can ever come across. plese post more of those.

[grouchobanana]

I heard the orchestra 1984 in Accra during rehearsals, conducted by Nana Danso Abiam. He studied contemporary western composition and reflected it for African New Music. I saw him conducting two different timelines with independent complicated rhythms, slowly running asynchronous and reunite. Mindblowing! Magicians of rhythm, digesting influences of german and other orchestral „Neue Musik”.They have to play a bit „folkloristic” here, to survive. Better funding and they would sparkle.

[MrHalohalo85]

This is a good collage of Ghana's musical traditions, the sparse northern sahel meets the lush southern forests :)

[54markl]

Soon the African Mozart will come, and write a whole symphony like this.

[DubSapien]

Great video, but i don't understand why you didn't simply upload the video you were playing through windows media player onto youtube instead of recording it with your camera and then putting it onto youtube. You would have had much better quality and would have saved time.