Mamady Keita and Bolokada Conde-Grandmaster's Tour Toronto 2012

Mamady Keita and Bolokada's Conde presented this rhythm as a gift to their students at the close of the Toronto leg of the Grandmaster's Tour on Sunday, May 27, 12012. This is "Fakoly Djembe." On djembe (in order of solos) Amara Kante,' Mohamed Diaby, Bolokada Conde' and Mamady Keita. DUNUN: Alice on Sangbon, Anna Milnikoff on kenkeni, Pascal Gaudette on dununba. Anna and Pascal are co-sponsers of this event.

[@danielpaulalbertelli3111]

Perfect armoni

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

this is so good sound quality! yes!!! reminds me of mamady playing "mishima" look it up

[@AdawgSuperhighway]

Nice!

[@ikoutou5382]

These guys are Grand Masters indeed!

[@deborahb8950]

Thanks for posting. I was there and this session was jaw dropping!! This makes me freakin' giddy to watch again!

[@julinmey]

Mamady .: La magia primitiva en Toronto .. Con los cueros claros de luna ...

[@k2ni]

Power of the drum !!! yeah cool vibes !!

[@edgarallansoto9626]

Bolokada como el master de el relajamiento y hacer ver todo facil y relajado

[@walkerhayden590]

That groove is so sweet I can taste it !!!!

[@ceejaydhason4546]

So Cool…. Thank You for posting this

[@FREEDOM6427]

I have seen the two guys in the middle together before but never those four together, would love to see more... I love how there seems to be no jealousy or egos and each is happy of the others talents and skill.

[@user-il5cv5kk2v]

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[@ElTornado51]

Merci pour le partage

[@mikeleza]

Fantastic show!

[@NickRalph]

Wonderful! All those guys and girls rock it!

[@jazounet1]

Amara Kanté a droite, mon prof!!!

[@priceta992]

Deborah, Yes, I agree! I was so blessed to be there, ( I drove 18 hours and had my engine blow in the mountains of West Virginia, but it was worth it!) it was joyous, virtuosic and the spirit was definitely there! See Djigi, that I have also posted from the same session. Tanya

[@gonzalobarthaburu2404]

Genios

[@Nebrox]

Mohamed's solo was right up there.

[@mallepogupullaiah5621]

సంగీతం అంటే మీదే బ్రదర్ దుమ్ము లేపినారు.

[@priceta992]

FREEDOM6427 You are so right. The whole point of Mamady's "Grandmaster's" Tours in 20011, 2012 (with Famoudou Konate' was there should be no jelously between djembefolas. Their ultimate motivation should be to preserve the beauty of the culture. However, he does make the distinction between the few "masters," initiated African experts in the tradition, and great djembefolas, of which there are plenty. Tanya

[@zoltanbalogh7420]

Kings

[@priceta992]

Edward, now that school is out for summer I will have the time to go back into my notes and recordings to find out for certain what the rhythm is. If I was incorrect, I'll make the neccessary changes on the caption. If I am right, Ill indicate it on the caption. I'm gldad you enjoyed this. Tanya

[@michaelpluznick]

IS that Mohammed Diabe on the 2nd djembe solo? Sure looks and sounds like him!

[@Onyeubanatu]

1:58 - 2:10.. what the hell did he do? My gooodnesss!!!!

[@kaceyannprince8622]

Now I hear everybody complains

[@priceta992]

Thank you! make sure you also check out Dgijui, also on my channel. It was part of the same session

[@priceta992]

Unless I heard him wrong, you'll need to take that up with Bolo!

[@priceta992]

@michaelpluznick I did talk to him, but I did not catch his last name. Mamady said he knew him from the time he was a youngster, in Conakry. I would not be surprised that is Mohammed Diabe! I can ask others, if you really want to know

[@Samakoro]

I think you heard wrong. You probably are confused with nene or possibly Safinamalo or dembadon. Those are the rhythms he's been teaching that pertain to marriages. I am 100% certain it is not douwa and that is fakoly. Cheers

[@allenparsens5279]

Listening to this, I feel very much an outsider. Reading through comments over many videos of these African drums, I don’t feel anything these people feel. I don’t feel any rhythm. I heard a lot of loud clanging unrelated noises. I don’t feel any spirit or any life in me. I am completely disconnected from the experience. This is not a criticism of the music. I just want to express my feelings, so very different from others. I do feel I am missing out. Next month I will do a 9 week course and I do wish to buy a drum. I have found education lessons online I will purchase as well. My motivation is from the health perspective. The vibration and the brain development from hand co ordination.

[@dixonbucks01]

What many fails to realize is there is no such thing as a "what the rhythm is" in African drumming . The rhythms are freestyles with complexity. The rhythm starts slow to allow the others to fall in line. Once everyone falls in line, they move with their individual flows but keep the beginning rhythm consistent which governs the flow. For many of you who relies on WHAT THE RHYTHM is, forced the drummers to start with a rhythm which they will play consistently over and over to appear as if it was written down for you guys. Because in the West and other nations, you guys rely on the writing of the notes to be able to interpret the notes. Traditional African drummers like these guys were never thought notes. They were thought that everything in life moves with rhythm and for you to master the rhythm, you must master every single rhythms transmitted by nature. Which is about 500. So, they do it and in the process they becomes the rhythm which allows them to coordinate at anytime and every time. It is not as simple as it seem. Each rhythm through a beat s unique and is identified! African drumming in itself is the materialization of the rhythm we experience when we walk, eat, make love and everything human, animals and nature do as a whole. You can try to write it but remember you're trying to right a language with 500 alphabets which must be written in complete sentences accurately.

[@Samakoro]

This is not douwa. Also, douwa is not a marriage rhythm. It sounds like fakoly jembe to me.