Kre Budu

[michi]

In Mamady's book, in the notes for Djabara, it says:

Several men played horns of different tonality, called "Kre Budu."

Can anyone point me at images or video of these horns? I have no idea what they look like.

Are there any recordings where they appear?

Thanks,

Michi.

[EvanP]

Michi,
I'm shooting in the dark, but noticed these horns on a video of zaouli. Let me know if they are what you're talking about.
Evan
post10110.html?hilit=zaouli#p10110

[bubudi]

here's a pic for ya

[michi]

Thanks for the pic Bubudi! Evan, the horns (flutes?) in the Zaouli video look different.

So, anyone know what these things sound like? I remember a Guinean recording (but can't remember which one) where there is horn-like sound a bit like the trumpeting of an elephant. Is that what they sound like, or is that yet something else?

Also, the instruments in the pic look like animal horns. Is that what they are? Or are they made of carved wood? If from an animal, which one? (I can't think of an animal with a horn of that shape...)

Cheers,

Michi.

[tanamasi]

hi Michi,
you can see some mande horns here (you can even buy one if you are fast)


http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Tribal-BAMBARA- ... 0176579606
see the first pix (included bc the page will soon disappear)


http://www.hwmconline.com/Instrument.php?inst_id=249
see the second pix
the second web includes a section of african aerophones which might be interesting to look at.

There is some spelling variation re. the name:
butuwo (-u) - horn, trumpet (from a malinke dictionary)

Further variation can be seen in a rhythm listed in djansa.be

Burubila-foli / Burun
Burubilafoli, meaning "trumpet ensemble music" is another rhythm/genre, played with djembe, chun, 7 trumpets, hand clapping and wooden clappers. The buru (horn trumpets) are historically tied to the kingdom of Segu, where the king called for the trumpets to be sounded at every victorious battle, but also when deaths occured in the battlefield. Nowadays it is played at the death of a village chief, to welcome a notable person and during the Ramadan and Tabaski festivals. Burun; the horn. Apart from old Dunbia, nobody in Bamako still recalls this Rhythm, which was used to accompany the play of trumpets

btw, this is a wild speculation but the pronunciation bears some resemblance to kudu horns (jewish antilope horns)

The rhythm namani might also be helpful when researching on horns in wassolon. also hunter's trumpets are used in sangbarala in dunun(ba) rhythms. I would think that originally a horn was used instead
cheers

[edited to add the pix]

[michi]

hi Michi,
you can see some mande horns here (you can even buy one if you are fast)

Thanks a lot for that info, that's awesome!

Michi.

[bubudi]

it seems that they can be made of both animal horn and wood. the wooden ones are common in the forest region. you can hear them on the recording: guinea: kpelle music. polyphonic songs, trumpets and drumming, released by inedit. the kpelle call these horns tulu.

here is another picture of the same type of wooden horn, this time from the abovementioned cd.

tulu.jpg (25.61 KiB) Viewed 403 times

i think that's the horn that michi said he heard on a guinean recording, almost surely ballet africains' sacred forest production (1st and last track).

there are various other types of buru/budu including the namabudu (farming), komobudu (komo society), etc. the komobudu can be heard on sega sidibe's recording, wasulun fenkerow.

[Paul]

Was looking for the names of these horns from Nta Dima by Habib Koite, I found they are antelope horns, are they the same thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tGKw72SlQ

[tanamasi]

seems like there is quite some variation in the horns

this video of malian hunters playing horns is worth checking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2S7X6T ... re=related

also you can hear horns from ivory coast in this recording of the smithsonian
http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=886

[bubudi]

also you can hear horns from ivory coast in this recording of the smithsonian

according to the liner notes, the antelope horn of the baoule (the people featured on this recording) is called ahoue. the goli ahoue (large antelope horn for rites concerned with the goli deity) produces a single low note. here is a picture of the goli ahoue.

goli ahoue - large antelope horn for the goli deity rites

goli ahoue.JPG (44.58 KiB) Viewed 368 times

and here's a sound extract of the goli ahoue played during the goli dance.

Goli dance.mp3

extract from the goli dance, from 'baule of the ivory coast' cd from smithsonian folkways

(354.35 KiB) Downloaded 49 times

also featured on that album is a horn made from an elephant tusk, which has a piercing sound audible seven miles away and was onced used to assemble people during the war with the ashanti (no ceremonial use today). here's a pic of it below. also note the klin sin (war drum).

ivory (elephant tusk) horn and war drum of the baule

ivoryhorn.JPG (60.47 KiB) Viewed 368 times

here's a sound extract of the klin sin and elephant tusk horn.

Heirloom instruments.mp3

extract from war 'heirloom instruments' featuring the ivory horn from 'baule of the ivory coast' cd from smithsonian folkways

(354.35 KiB) Downloaded 51 times

[tanamasi]

thanks bubudi! great info and pix throughout the topic

still another place to hear horns is MK's 'agiate'. the idea of that recording was to have each ethnic group play their songs and rhythms and thus capture their tradition, etc. The guerze play in that cd a horn ensemble. Of course, there is no guarantee that this is the same kind of horn as the kre budu, as implicit in bubudi's list of the diverse horns, but it is a horn ensemble, as the one in djabara. the liner notes say that originally elephant horns were used and later they switched to wooden horns.
cheers

[bubudi]

'guerze' is a french term for the kpelle people that are in the recording i added the pics and sound extracts from. it'd probably be the wooden horn or one of the antelope ones on a giate.