Afrodelic - Balafon Solo - Be Ka Wili (The Lost Hard Drive Sessions)

Video footage from the recording session in my house in Dejlibougou, Bamako (Mali) back in 2009. With the help of Sekou Kante and other local musicians we recorded an album which i later lost.
Sadly the hard drive where i kept all the files broke and i could never recover it. Most of the songs have been re-recorded with the same musicians in 2015 but the project was once again put on hold. After my father (Malian writer and poet Gaoussou Diawara) passed away in 2018 i decided to finally finish the work I started in his honour. Afrodelic debut album "Dusunkun Hakili" (The memory of the heart) will be released on June 20th 2021 (International Father's Day).
Original balafon solo recorded for the song "Be Ka Wili".
Balafon: Mory Kouyaté.
*** Be ka wili ka don ke (in Bambara) means "Everybody get up to dance".
The song will be on the debut album - but with a slightly different version.
We'll keep the insane solos for the live shows.
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[@johannesahun1703]

really good! awesome video!

[@AndriusBalakirevas]

Love that swingy vibe :D