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[Paul]

Hi guys has anyone ever seen this instrument from the Basque country, saw them the other day and have a strong desire to put a set of dundun in there.

Will post a link soon

[Paul]

[dleufer]

Yeah there's a Basque guy in Galway called Gorka who plays one of those. He made it out of lengths of wood and pieces of slate. Very strange playing technique. I haven't seen him out busking with it in a year or two and I only talked to him once so I have no way of contacting him.

[e2c]

Paul - very cool! Marimba-like but with a very full, deep sound - duns would go well with it, I think.

I'd also love to see what this group does with the big Indonesian drums they've got in the back...

I once got to see Brazilian composer/wildman Hermeto Pascoal and his group playing a "marimba" made of cement blocks. They used aluminum tubes of varying lengths to strike the blocks. The sound was very clear and sweet, almost bell-like in some ways.

[e2c]

This vid is pretty cool - subtitles in Basque only, though...

[James]

Yea I saw these in the basque country this year... have a video somewhere...

It literally looked like planks of wood. The one I saw, just had 2 pieces of wood and 2 players...

The Rhythmic structures where pretty simple, but effective...

[Paul]

They are just planks.. Some of the changes are crazy though... Funny folk the basque got invited to play with a djembe group there last year but never made it cus of work..

Hey jimbo found the tapes of Seckou Keita workshop a few years ago, nice stuff sweet solos for soli de manians

[James]

Yea, I got that shit down....

[Paul]

Yeah yeah

[James]

Finally uploaded this, shot last summer in Basque Country...