L'un des instruments les plus anciens d'Afrique, le "balafon", également appelé "instrument de la forêt", s'impose comme un élément indispensable des mariages, des funérailles et des organisations ...

Un xylophone d'une vingtaine de lames sous lesquelles se trouvent des calebasses. Lansiné Diabaté joue du balafon pour nous raconter son histoire, qui trouve son origine à Niagassola, en Guinée, au ...

Inside the studios of the Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, young dancers sashay about the floor as the rhythmic beats of the djembe pulse through the air—weaving a tapestry of sound that animates ...

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual In the 2022 film Alice, the titular heroine – a slave ...

Comme certains sont fous de chocolat, lui l’est de balafon. Mamadou Kolade partage son amour du balafon, depuis quelques années déjà, avec des milliers d’internautes grâce à son site Marimbalafon.

As a boy in Mali, Balla Kouyaté remembers playing the balafon to motivate workers on a farm. He was so small, he had to stand on a large rock to be seen by the crowd. An opportunity like that would ...

First new artist release through Chrysalis Global, an imprint of Chrysalis Records Produced by an A-list team: Dudu Sarr, Lucy Durán + Pape Armand Boye “Three outstanding Malian and Guinean griots….

In conversation with balafon player Mamadou Diabate ahead of his performance in the city Born into a Griot family in Burkina Faso, known for their tradition of practising storytelling and music-making ...

Dans sa salle de cours au conservatoire de Nanterre, en région parisienne, Lansiné Diabaté, Guinéen d’origine, enseigne le balafon. Ce xylophone d’Afrique de l’Ouest est intimement lié à la tradition ...