NANGAPE: YAYA DIALLO'S TRADITIONAL WEST AFRICAN MUSIC-- African drumming, Balafon, Flute ...
"The Yaya Diallo album is a masterpiece."
- Gary Lee, Radio show host, THE OVERFLOW, Radio Caroline, http://www.radio-caroline.nl Onzou Records email, F [+]NANGAPE: YAYA DIALLO'S TRADITIONAL WEST AFRICAN MUSIC-- African drumming, Balafon, Flute ...
"The Yaya Diallo album is a masterpiece."
- Gary Lee, Radio show host, THE OVERFLOW, Radio Caroline, http://www.radio-caroline.nl Onzou Records email, Feb. 23, 2003.
NANGAPE is Yaya Diallo's classic 1980 instrumental album recorded in Canada that brought international recognition to his profound heritage of traditional West African healing arts. Soothing and subtle the gentle drumming, balafon and flute music bridges traditional and Western instruments with a sound both respectful of the ancestors and avant-garde. The tracks "Ivoirien" and "Wassoulou" being exclusively drumming are favorits with percussion enthusiasts while "Lobi a la Yaya," "Outeme" and "Nangape," the title track, are as at home in New Age music as they are in traditional West African and World Beat classifications. NANGAPE has garnered publicity and radio play from African and Jazz music reviewers and radio hosts.
ADDITIONAL ALBUMS BY YAYA DIALLO ON ONZOU RECORDS
"... DOUNOUKAN [1995] is a wonderful buffet of West African rhythms from a master drummer. ... Diallo's lifetime of musical experience make this CD well worth having for fans of African percussion."
- Scott Allan Stevens, Host/Producer of Spin the Globe on KAOS Olympia Community Radio, Olympia, WA, May 2003.
Yaya Diallo performs the rhythms of ceremonial, ritual and daily living in traditional West African village life on his album DOUNOUKAN. With drumming that is almost sparse at times and voice that leaves expected conventions behind. DOUNOUKAN proffers an experience in West African village life.
Yaya Diallo's LIVE AT CLUB SODA (recorded 1989, released 2003), performed in Montreal with his band Kanza delivers a sound fans of Yaya's earlier traditonal music albums may find surprising. True to traditional African music stucture, the saxophone, electric violin, bass and lead guitars, drum set and vocals along with the traditional African drums take their turn as solo voice with a sound reminiscent of 1950's Rock and Roll, Blues and Jazz. LIVE AT CLUB SODA will excite people that didn't know they loved African music. This is Kanza music, a relatively new genre created in the villages which had as its in
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