drums
Babatunde Olatunji
https://amf.didiermary.fr/babatunde-olatunji/
Grammy award winning master drummer, educator, and social activist, Babatunde Olatunji influenced everyone from John Coltrane to Spike Lee. He left Nigeria for The United States in 1950.
In his posthumous autobiography, the percussionist explained […]
Babatunde Olatunji – Jin-Go-Lo-Ba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/babatunde-olatunji-jin-go-lo-ba/
Here’s where Carlos Santana found the basis for his version… it’s from the great Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji, who lived in USA, and worked with John Coltrane.
Enjoy!
Ngoma za Congo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi17S7Xb16A
Créé en 1999 par Léonard Baniekona, Ngoma Za Kongo ((Drums of the Kongo [Kingdom]) est un groupe congolais de musique et danse traditionnelles du Congo Brazzaville. Composé de nombreux artistes, tous fortement imprégnés de la tradition Kongo, le groupe a, depuis sa création, fait plusieurs tournées en Afrique, Europe, Etats-Unis d’Amérique et Asie.
A finger cajon nearing completion, my latest mini-project.
The standard cajon is a fairly large box-shaped instrument originated by African slaves in Peru who were denied traditional drums & resorted to shipping crates to get rhythmic. One sits on top and slaps, taps, etc. – most have snare drum wire mounted within for added sonic brightness & texture.
Handmade from 1/4" pine, bamboo mini-skewers & wood glue.
#music #latin #drums #percussion #cajon #peru #craft #art
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Tefo Mahola – First Offering
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tefo-mahola-first-offering/
Tefo Mahola (aka “Talking Drum”) is a drummer and composer from Gugulethu, Cape Town. His first album “First Offering” was released in 2020. He’s Mzantsi Jazz Awards “Best Album of 2021” winner.
Thembi (Thembelihle) Dunjana appears on piano.
Hello drummers,
there is a FediGroup for us now! 
@drumming
So far it only boosts accounts of people who follow the group. (We might change that in the future.)
I'm looking forward to meet a lot new drumming friends and I hope this group will be used often :)
(There was a Gup.pe group, but the service has been compromised and you should unfollow all of those groups and encourage your admin to block the server.)
Nihiloxica – Kadodi / Black Kaveera
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nihiloxica-kadodi-black-kaveera/
From their debut album, Nihiloxica presents percussions and electronic music out of the Nyege Nyege collective.
The Kadodi rhythm traditionally accompanies the East Ugandan Imbalu circumcision ritual, and this traumatic yet powerful experience feeds the ferocity of the music.
Nimbaya – The Women’s Drum & Dance Company of Guinea
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nimbaya-women-drum-dance-guinea/
A daring response to the taboo of women playing djembe in West Africa, NIMBAYA! is the first all women’s percussion and dance troupe from Guinea, sharing a new interpretation of traditional African drumming and dance.
“Choosing Nimbaya! was intended to be a tribute to women’s beauty, strength, fertility and integrity.”
In the late 1950s and […]
Arsenal Mikebe – Boiller Omukka
https://amf.didiermary.fr/arsenal-mikebe-boiller-omukka/
Based in Kampala, Arsenal Mikebe are a groundbreaking Ugandan ensemble who playfully dance around the fringes of acoustic and electronic music, infusing tempo-fluxed polyrhythms with dizzying chants and ghostly synthetic drones.
The band is made up of percussionists Ssentongo Moses, Dratele Epiphany, Luyambi Vincent de Paul and was co-founded by Portugese sonic alchemist Jonathan Uliel [……
Burundi Black (1971)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/burundi-black-1971/
Le disque Burundi Black est relativement inclassable du fait de l’année de sa réalisation, 1971, et qu’il a été produit par un pianiste français de formation classique, Michel Bernholc sous le pseudonyme Mike Steïphenson, sur la base de rythmes et percussions originaires du Burundi.
Sur des samples extraits depuis un disque ethnographique, réalisé pour Ocora […]
Kenyan Female Percussionist Kasiva Mutua live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kenyan-female-percussionist-kasiva-mutua/
Kasiva Mutua, a drumming prodigy influenced by her grandmother’s folktales, is one of Africa’s leading percussionists. Breaking barriers in a male-dominated field, she fuses traditional African beats with modern genres.
Her debut album in 2025, DESTURI, showcases her expanded skills in guitar, songwriting, and production, while empowering a new generation [...]
Doudou N’Diaye Rose – Rose Rhythm
https://amf.didiermary.fr/doudou-ndiaye-rose-rhythm/
Rose Rhythm is a track from the album “Djabote” released in 1994. Djabote is also the title of a documentary in 1992 on the work of Senegalese drummer, composer and band leader Doudou N’Diaye Rose, recognized as the modern master of Senegal’s traditional drum, the sabar.
This film is the result of a passion shared […]
Art Blakey & The Afro-Drum Ensemble – Ayiko Ayiko
https://amf.didiermary.fr/art-blakey-afro-drum-ensemble-ayiko-ayiko/
The track “Ayiko Ayiko”, by Art Blakey & The Afro-Drum Ensemble, and the album “The African Beat” (Blue Note, 1962) as a whole, is very important to me, as it is probably the origin of what I do today, e.g. on this site. At least, I became a Jazz & African musics aficionado… […]
Mahmoud Fadl – The Drummers Of The Nile
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahmoud-fadl-the-drummers-of-the-nile/
Master drummer Mahmoud Fadl has digged deep into his musical roots. Hypnotic percussion and Nubian drums.
As a young boy, by absorbing the blockbuster Egyptian movie musicals of the period, he became an admirer of the legendary dancer Samia Gamal and was enchanted by the voices of Farid El Atrache and Umm Kalthum, mixing his […]
The Drummers of Burundi
https://amf.didiermary.fr/drummers-burundi/
The Drummers of Burundi were the heroes of the first-ever WOMAD Festival in 1982 and, 10 years later, at Real World Studios, they immortalized their art with this deeply hypnotic performance. Raw, heady and immediate, this record is a one-way ticket to the pumping heart and soul of the mother continent.
In the centre of the […]
Abdullah Ibrahim – Jabula
https://amf.didiermary.fr/abdullah-ibrahim-jabula/
Jabula is a track by South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim (AKA Dollar Brand) who released in 2019 his first album in five years: The Balance.
Entitled ‘The Balance’, this project featured his long-time septet Ekaya, a line-up that he’s been recording with since 1983. In this case, the album was recorded over the course […]
Obo Addy (Oboade)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/obo-addy-oboade/
Obo Addy (January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer. He learned drumming at a very early age. He and his brothers drummed while his mother and sisters sang as his father, a priest and medicine man of the Ga people of southern Ghana, performed rituals.
When Addy was six, he […]
Tambours de Brazza – Sur la Route des Caravanes
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From album “Sur la Route des Caravanes” by Les Tambours de Brazza in 2013.
The Congolese band created by Emile Biayenda in 1983 is back with a new album – a journey through modern African urban music, carried by the emblematic ngoma drums and bringing into play Congolese guitars and vocals rubbing shoulders with the […]
Les Tambours de Brazza
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tambours-brazza-congo-drums-1996/
Le magnifique son des Tambours de Brazza sur l’album “Congo Drums” en 1996.
Quatorze percussionnistes congolais créent un fabuleux voyage à travers les rites les plus profonds de l’Afrique centrale. Un enregistrement remarquable ! Créé en 1991 sous la direction artistique d’Émile Biayenda, le groupe allie tradition et modernité, offrant des rythmes de toute […]
Xalam & Doudou N’diaye Rose
https://amf.didiermary.fr/xalam-live-doudou-ndiaye-rose/
Xalam is a Senegalese band that’s known for its Jazz Fusion, mixing western instrumentation with traditional African percussion and rhythms.
U-CEF – Halal Monk
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Moulay Youssef Adel aka U-Cef is one of the greats of Moroccan Drum & Bass music. “Halal Monk” is from “Halalium” in 1999.
Life has a rhythm…
https://amf.didiermary.fr/life-rhythm-foli/
Life has a rhythm, it’s constantly moving.
It is a word that encompasses so much more than drumming, dancing or sound.
It’s found in every part of daily life.
In this film, you not only hear and feel rhythm, but you see it.
It’s an extraordinary blend of image and sound that feeds the senses and reminds us all […]
Yoruba Women Of The Drum
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yoruba-women-drum/
Not a lot of information on this album from 1995 with Madam Comfort Omoge and Madam Mujidat Ogunfala, called ”Yoruba Women Of The Drum”. It’s best to listen to it…
Comfort Omoge was a Nigerian musician known as the queen and chief exponent of Asiko music, a traditional African folklore music […]
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Taga Sidibe – Wassoulou Foli
https://amf.didiermary.fr/taga-sidibe-wassoulou-foli/
Magnifique vidéo de Mamadou “Taga” Sidibé en 2009 pour Wassoulou Foli, le titre principal de l’album éponyme, enregistré en prise directe et l’on admirera l’installation de l’ingénieur du son…
Taga Sidibé est un djembefola renommé de la région du Wassoulou, au sud du Mali. Il s’agit de musique traditionnelle, celle des griots, des guérisseurs, des […]
