Idylle Mamba – Sango & Vous
https://amf.didiermary.fr/idylle-mamba-sango/
Idylle Mamba with her first maxi single and video clip “Sango & Vous” (2010), hymn to her native tongue, from her studio album “Bêkou” (Hope in Sango) released in 2013.
I met Idylle Mamba in 2010 (or 2011) in Douala for a Festival.
In 2014, she was one of the 10 finalists in RFI/France 24 “Prix […]
Electric Mamba – Zingo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/electric-mamba-zingo/
This “African 70smusic” styled song is a collaboration between Idylle Mamba and the French Afrobeat band Electric Safari (Lyon).
Ongo Trogodé – Trompes Banda-Linda
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ongo-trogode-trompes-banda-linda/
As a potential ancestor of Brass Bands, Trompes Banda-Linda, from Central Africa (Centrafrique), played with animal horns and hollowed-out tree roots.
Discovered, then recorded and studied by Simha Arom beginning in 1963, the banda-linda orchestra comprises between ten and eighteen transverse horns (ongo), of varying sizes (from 30 cm to 1.70 m), each emitting only […]
