Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Abe Sumaya (Live on KEXP) 

not a genius

Yes! The arranging and production is great, along with the musical skill.

indeed

2:38 - 💪

@@perrinenzo607 your point?

So hit me with music!

I learned that expression from Drake haha 😂

Çok güzel tümce !

@@sjappiyah4071 Who is Drake? This is from "Trenchtown Rock" by Bob Marley & The Wailers.

@@Atananaki I simply said that’s where I LEARNT the expression from. ( Drake -Over) I never said that was the origin...

I am grateful and thankful for this moment in present time

The internet answered my question! It's an ngoni: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngoni_(instrument)

Mali in africa

+lolttyl143 Guess you shouldn't drive cars then. It's German culture. Wouldn't want to appropriate that now. Most of the music you listen to, tools you use, even basic entertainment sources and stories, they all came from someone elses culture. There's nothing wrong with taking something you enjoy and respect, and recreating/using/wearing/etc it.

lolttyl143 Music has flowed between all people and lands since before history began. You aren't appropriating anything.

As long as you don’t claim the genre as your’s i’m sure they’d be glad to see a western interpretation of this

If he pays for the instrument he can play it and use it as he wants, just like the example of the car. He can get inspiration from Malian culture and create something new from it. Culture is fluid, it has been copied, mixed, improved, modified and addapted since the dawn of humanity. If look closely enough, no culture is pure, there is always influence from someone else, so culture does not belong to anybody. If humans where blaming everyone else of "cultural appropiation" since the begining, we would still be living in caves and hitting each other with sticks. I´m Dominican and I love to see others dancing merengue or bachata, eating our food, or imitating dominican culture. We can´t stop cultural exchange just because suddenly people are getting offended by it, cultural appropiation makes no sense.

What I do, and I play instruments from all over the world, is learn about the culture, the people their history, learn about how they think about and make music, and learn as best I can how to play it THEIR way first, learn some of their songs and get a feel for what kinds of sounds they like to hear from it. Once I've done a reasonable job of that I feel okay about playing around with it more and finding what I can bring to not just the instrument but the music too. BUT, I don't try to play it like a guitar b/c a guitar is based on and made to play something different. Let the instrument have its own voice and do its own thing. Besides, Bassekou and his group have expanded the borders of ngoni playing WAY beyond what tradition would expect, and it's been my experience when I meet people from the cultures whose instrument I'm playing that when they see that I know something of what I'm doing and have bothered to learn something about them, they're very appreciative and encouraging. So give it a try, just learn and give credit to the source! :)

She's saying Uhmmmm She's singing

no. its is not. it is similar to banjo or guitar.

Diego Pires I would guess somewhere from central africa.

+VanLightning900 No west Africa. Its west African music.

Diego Pires hé from Mali in West Africain