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interesting sites for djembe-drummers and lovers of african music:
Afrika In Bayern: German web-site about African Music and activities, concert-dates etc. in Bavaria, Southern Germany.
www.africaproductions.com - Fantastic music choice from Westafrica! The complete catalogue of "Africa Productions" is available in Germany by mailorder with bibiafrica!
www.united-one.de - Some more nice music from Africa - listen to "United-One" real-player!
DialO-Records from Denmark are introducing you to the "Kinkéliba-Project" of Moussa Diallo, fantastic bass-player and singer with Danish/Malian parents. Great fusion in between Funk, Soul & Malian Roots featuring also Basiru Suso on Kora. You can explore their music also on "African Artists Hand In Hand"-compilation on bibiafrica-records!
Gateway Of Africa - Internetshop with many infos, biografies, links.
Interested in Drum-Workshops in Ghana with Ashitey Nsotse? Here you'll get some further informations!
Embryo, our friends since 20 years - still on the road - more than ever performing worldmusic in between Jazz, Freejazz, Africa, India & China. Listen to Christian Burchard (mastermind) and his Embryo-family which should include approximately 400 musicians all over the world incl. Mal Waldron, Charlie Mariano, Yoruba Dundun, Roman Bunka, Xie Ni, Chris Karrer, TAS Mani, Ramani & Karnataka College Of Percussion, Ramesh Shotham, Trilok Gurtu - just to mention a few . . .
New official homepage of Aicha Kouyaté, guinean griot-singer featured on bibiafrica's "Mandingo Festival"-album. More news about her, workshops, tour-schedule etc.
The European World Music Charts compiled by Johannes Theurer and Tobias Maier on behalf of the World Music Workshop of the EBU. Supported bei RADIO multikulti and WDR Funkhaus Europa. With many infos, soundfiles etc.
Folker - website of German Folk- and Worldmusic-Magazine. Lot of infos & CD-reviews!
Blue Rhythm - the only entire Worldmusic Magazine in Germany - website with many infos, articles & links.
Global Village - worldmusic website of radio-DJ Joerg Werner (Germany) with lots of infos, tourschedules etc.
DJEMBE AND MANDE MUSIC: Ressources, references, reviews - This page is devoted primarily to the drumming, culture and other musical traditions of the Mande peoples of West Africa. It will also include material relating to the culture and music of other parts of Africa as well as information concerning drum traditions in other parts of the world. It is a collaborative project undertaken by Tom Daddesio, Chris Johansen, Doug Kane, Adam Rugo, Johannes Schya, George Sherouse and Michael Wall.
Drumcafe: Our friends from Nordhorn/Germany organizing djembé-workshops, concerts etc.
 TOP 50 FOLK: some more interesting links to worldmusic and folk!
Gamton Records/Publishing: Senegambigha (African Trance Percussion) - some more interesting african music!
Djembe.at: Djembe-Seite in Österreich mit vielen Infos, CD-reviews + Veranstaltungskalender: "An information page by Martin Haderer about djembe drumming and the djembe scene in Austria. There are also descriptions of cd´s, books and musicians and groups in Austria." (In German only.)
African Drum Rhythms: Educational tools for djembes, bass drums and bells by Lennart Hallstrom. Books, Practice CDs, Software, Notation, Sound Samples, Rhythm Exchange.
Jenbe Music in Bamako: An excellent article on Microtiming as Formal Model and Performance Practice
by Rainer Polak.
Friends:
VerQuer - flutes unlimited: German flute-quartet which is performing also Dieter Weberpals' african inspired composition "Mariam" arranged for 4 flutes - another version of this tune is recorded with the Argile band on the CD "Koko" - VerQuer is performing very colourful flute music, listen to them on soundfiles on their website.
Black & White: Anja's homepage in English and German with many infos, links and tips about Africa and about "black & white"-relationships.
HAND IN HAND International is a small NGO with at about 50 members in different parts of Germany and contact persons in some other countries: e.g. Congo, Senegal, Sudan and Kosovo. Our headquarters are located in the south of Germany in the town of Konstanz. Our common belief is, that we must create ourselves the world that we wish to see and that this world should be a world of justice and solidarity. Our main objectives therefore are:
- To fight against misery in materially poor countries by finding people who pay school fees for children in need or by emergency aid for victims of the Kosovo war.
- The understanding between people, e.g. by international cultural and information events, internships abroad, youth and student exchange.
- Solidarity with foreign students, foreigners and refugees in Europe, e.g. by giving judicial advice/financial support to solve problems with authorities.
Michael Schels (http://www.schels-pr.de) and (http://www.jetztkunst.de)
As a journalist, I had the opportunity to accompany Argile on their West-Africa tour in 1997. The most intensive experience I made, definitely was a concert together with Farafina in their home town Bobodioulassou, Burkina Faso. They played in a "Cabaret" (a courtyard surrounded by high clay walls, typical for this area, used for brewing millet beer and for regular celebrations).
The Cabaret was full to bursting. Over 200 people crowded on less than 100 square yards, many of them children. Calabashes filled with warm millet beer were passed around. Every other minute a new calabash passed ones way, and nobody stayed sober longer than half an hour.
The millet beer garden was rocking, Mani Suleymane, the bandleader of Farafina, gave a sign, and the musicians started a tremendous intro, when suddenly there was a short circuit, cutting off the light as well as the music. After a few minutes, the balafon players started playing in the dark. They filled in the time without electricity with complicated runs and dreamy tunes. An hour and a half later, electricity was back, and an unforgettable session began. Many thanks once again to Dieter Weberpals who made this and a lot more possible.
Helga und Manfred Weule/Malidoma Somé: We in the West are in our consciousness like people who live only in one room of a big house. Its other rooms are not entered or if so, only unintentionally. People in traditional Africa live mostly in other rooms of this house. They show us - e.g. via the "bridge builder" Malidoma Somé from Burkina Faso / USA - how to enter those rooms and how to cooperate with its inhabitants.
The Institute consciousness strategies - persons - groups - organizations supports persons and groups in developing their capability of self-orientation. This work is centered around three elements: 1) finding out one's life purpose, 2) learning to live in community with people and nature and 3) the way of the ritual.
elementarkreise: Das ist die Seite meines Freundes Hugo-Bert Eichmüller und der elementar-Kreise, ". . .deren spirituelle Methoden nach einer höheren Einheit streben, da aus ihr die Kraft für innere Wahrhaftigkeit, Menschlichkeit, Güte, Mitgefühl und menschliches Handeln entspringt. Das sind die grundlegenden menschlichen Qualitäten der Liebe." - Schwitzhütten, schamanische Reisen, transpersonale Psychologie, Meditation.
Doris Weller / Meki N'Zewi + AMA-Dialog: Meki N'Zewi is music-ethnologist, drummer and composer from Nigeria who performed also with Argile while his stay in Europe. At the moment he is teaching at the University in South Africa and publishing books about African traditional Music. Very interesting contact!
Gert Kilian: Gert Kilian is known as the "white" european balafon-player, who performed on Argile's debut-CD "Koko". There is a lot more of his music with "Les Zoulousains", "Drumpact" and "Orexis" to be found on his homepage.
René Styber HeARTmedia: Web design & World Music. Whoever needs a well-designed, functional World Music related website is perfectly right here. Listen to René Styber's BUSH TAXI. Download free mp3-related Software. Download free drum loops. Infos about Shamanic Journey. Texts in German.
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