Genre: African

Trouble with Tribals

Another exciting guerrilla warfare planning meeting, and Parker didn’t bring the coffee. I’m starting to get annoyed with Parker more and more these days. Sure, the new “cape cod style” curtains look great in the mud blinds, but I’m not into the satin obelisk in the middle of our jungle huts.

Energizing

Purity is the word! Start your day with energy from this piece. Recommend you set it as your alarm!

Bumba Crossing

Sparse and beautiful, this piece has a major change in tone at 2:27, moving to a more energetic feel without destroying what came before. Voluminous choirs support the piece at various moments. They also let the drums stand on their own.

Digya

Is good. A little more melodic than most. This piece of music is available in an uncompressed format here.

Slow Heat

Very simple polyrhythms and polymelodies. This piece of music is available in an uncompressed format here.

Dubakupado

Named for the sound of the final cadence. This is a nice solid grooving piece – light on polyrhythm – for 8 percussionists. This piece of music is available in an uncompressed format here.

At The Shore

A mixture of African vocal chants and Caribbean-styled percussion and bass guitar makes you long for your hammock. The piece is relaxing and gets you in the mood for ?Island Time? – where the troubles of the world melt away in the ocean breeze.

Tafi Maradi no voice

Percussion beats and shakers instantly make your feet tap, involving you in the tribal experience of ritual kinship. Three sets of call-and-response chanting slide into the forefront of the beat, interspersed with rapid djembe solos to the ending when the dust finally settles. This piece of music is available in an uncompressed format here.

Tafi Maradi

Percussion beats and shakers instantly make your feet tap, involving you in the tribal experience of ritual kinship. Three sets of call-and-response chanting slide into the forefront of the beat, interspersed with rapid djembe solos to the ending when the dust finally settles. This piece of music is available in an uncompressed format here.