Tassaba & Koma masks in Baro village

[bubudi]

this is some nice footage during the dalamon (festival of the pond) in baro. the koma rhythm they are playing here is different than in the other video i posted.

daniel preissler, known on this forum as 'afoba', makes an appearance dancing with the tassaba (malinke for 'big booty').

the woima makes an appearance too.



for more info on koma, see the thread with the other koma video.

[Dugafola]

the big mask with the mirror for eyes labled as "Koma"...I was told that is a Fakoly mask.

I was told that Fakoly was a really powerful fetishcer, the most powerful one in all the folklore and history i've been told from teachers or researched. When you see the procession/parade, you can see all the fetichers with all their charms and gris.

the music played at the 3:40 mark is what i've learned as a version of Fakoly djembe.

at the 4:30, the music is halted and the famous n'toman song is started and the drummers start playing kodofoly. it's played sans dunun, the way i like it.

[e2c]

Thanks, all! There's some pretty marvelous dancing in these clips!

Maybe both Daniel and Duga could provide some more info. on the music and cultural background here?

[bubudi]

re: fakoli in the video: that makes sense. it's a very different rhythm to the koma rhythms i've previously heard. would be good to get some confirmation from daniel, since he was there at the time.

for more info on fakoli, read the mande epic. fakoli koroma was a susu man, nephew of the susu king, sumanguru kante. according to the epic he was indeed the most powerful sorceror known, and he was one huge, fugly dude. fakoli would wear a nado (a helmet fitted with many mystical charms, which the djembefola hat is based on). fakoli was married to a beautiful woman, called keleya. after the susu king took keleya from him by force, fakoli rebelled and joined the mande forces, becoming instrumental in their victories. keleya herself betrayed sumanguru's secret which led to his downfall and the rising of the mali empire. the song praising fakoli and his feats is commonly known as koroma fassa.

fakoli kun ba
fakoli da ba
jamijan koli
bula te ke ko nyokon di
bula kele mansa mande
(aywa namu!)

behold the valiant fakoli
big-headed fakoli
big-mouthed fakoli
giant koli
no other blacksmith sorceror could equal him
the illustrious warlord exemplifies mande!
there is nothing that cannot be said...
(yes, it is so!)

the name bangoura is one of the offshoots of fakoli's clan. dumbia/dumbuya is another offshoot of the same clan.

[guedom]

the music played at the 3:40 mark is what i've learned as a version of Fakoly djembe.

I don't know this djembe part but duns look fakoly's one a feel closed to soko

[Dugafola]

yep. that version of fakoly is very similar to soko.

[Afoba]

hello everybody,

concerning this video and Koma:
What they play (the first ternary rythm) is Koma to me, but it sometimes nearly switches into Fakoli, that's to say there are some variations that are more Fakoli and the echauffement sometimes is like Fakoli (basic), too.
It is 2 rythms for me, but - as I wrote in the thread concerning Fakoli and Fèfö - it has probably the same origin rythm played on Kèuru drums, not on dunduns. And they play Fakoly for the Koma mask as often as the Koma rythm (I haven't heard the Koma rythm often). The Fissadou guys did it that way in 2008 for exactly the same mask in the same village and they did so in Koumana 2008, too (http://www.youtube.com/user/DanielKonat ... ad1qhZqcnE !in the very end!) - nobody cares, because the music is very close. It's the same structure, once with the Sangban playing more downbeat and the dundunba only 6 bells over 4 beats and once the other way around.
So, Josh, there is no Fakoli mask, or better: the Fakoli mask is the Koma mask - and the one you got here is a real one.

Thank you for the link to the other video, Bubudi, I didn't know it and it's very nice! Do you know where it's from? What they play for the second mask (and in the end of Lukas' video) is Woima or Wölöba to me, not Fakoli or Koma, but it's a féticheur rythm, too. It ends up becoming a bit complicated with the names, because I'ld call the binary rythm in Lukas' Baro video "Wölöbaföli", too.

Did you recognize that the Soliwulen they play is turned around compared with the Mansa, Famoudou or Mamady version? Very interesting! I saw this version once this year, too. Seems like a little misunderstanding has become a part of the malinke tradition d;-) In fact there are at least two Soliwulen versions that are quite different.

So you got:
Soro
Woima/Wölöba (ternary)
Wölöba (binary)
Fakoli
Koma
for féticheurs (I'm sure I forgot something)

to be continued,
Daniel

[Afoba]

and now smaller d;-)

[Afoba]

have a little look at this, too. Babila 2008. Unfortunately it was a bit mixed up that day musically (like double kensedeni, puhhh) due to visiters from CKY (with Babila origins).
http://www.youtube.com/user/DanielKonat ... bF-gM3_iEI

hope you like it, Daniel

[Afoba]

another example for what I call (and play and teach as) Fakoli (though not the very best one)

[guedom]

Hi! are you playing Afoba? the begin djembe is a traditional phrase for Fakoly, but here play a tone (piri tipa pi pa) where I play a slap (piri tipa pa pa)

[Afoba]

Hi Guedom,
I'm playing, but Sangban. It's Lukas playing solo (it's much better this way around d;-) ).
I prefer your version of this solo, too, Most times Lukas does it that way as well.
Greets, d

[bubudi]

here's fadouba oulare and crew playing fakoli

[Afoba]

That's different!
But as it's played with a dundunba and the Sangban player is doing some joke variations (playing a bit of Dyagba and Kassa in it) is doesn't give us a clear idea of what Fakoli can be like in the Sankaran region.
Fadouba himself seems nice. I've never met him.
Greets, d

[guedom]

I'm playing, but Sangban.

cool

Most times Lukas does it that way as well

here's fadouba oulare and crew playing fakoli

Thanks bubudi!

here another fakoly vid (+ kawa) by Fadouba

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbg8kx_fadouba-oulare_music