Billy Konate documentary

[bubudi]

[dleufer]

Looks cool. I presume this is a trailer for a longer documentary.

[michi]

Looks cool. I presume this is a trailer for a longer documentary.

Yes, it's a teaser for 51-minute documentary.

Cheers,

Michi.

[Brian Lynch]

I know that Djembe hes useing, that Zacilas Djembe from Sanankörö.

[the kid]

Brian i hope you didn't put your paws on that drum

Who's Zacilas?

[callywally]

where can we see or get the documentry?

[davidognomo]

I'll try to find out. these guys are portuguese. This trip I believe was made some years ago, unless the footage is from a more recent trip.
Three guys assembled a car from scratch and travelled from the northern border of Portugal to Guinea in it. They visited Fadouba, were in Sangbarala. They have brought Billy to Portugal for workshops a few times.

The video producer has a facebbok profile. I already asked if the documentary was already released. If they reply, I'll keep you updated. But I have the feeling that the film isn't released yet. Don't know

[davidognomo]

So, as I thought, it hasn't been released yet. The producer and director told me it may take a few months to be finished.

When it's out, if I get noticed of it, I'll say something here.

[Brian Lynch]

I had My paws on that Djembe for a few hours at a Soli fete

[archetypo]

AFAIK, the documentary is not quite out yet, but hopefully I will hear about it from Billy when it is. I was actually in Guinea, studying with Billy, while the filmmakers were there, so I got to see firsthand how they worked and hear quite a few of their stories.

This is a video I shot while Famoudou and family did a demonstration for the filmmakers - so parts of this will be in the documentary. Famoudou & family performing Mendiani. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cukX4AsYMUk

[Dugafola]

AFAIK, the documentary is not quite out yet, but hopefully I will hear about it from Billy when it is. I was actually in Guinea, studying with Billy, while the filmmakers were there, so I got to see firsthand how they worked and hear quite a few of their stories.

This is a video I shot while Famoudou and family did a demonstration for the filmmakers - so parts of this will be in the documentary. Famoudou & family performing Mendiani. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cukX4AsYMUk

thanks for posting that video!! it's one of my favorite mendianis on youtube!

[archetypo]

Dugafola, you're welcome - I have more great video from that day which I still haven't uploaded (soli & konowulen!) but I hope to edit it soon. It's just a tad over my 20-minute maximum, so maybe I'll just split it in two sections, but there's also a few minutes of Famoudou speaking at the beginning.

One question I do have - how do you get videos to embed? Or is there a post somewhere about formatting that I just haven't found yet?

[michi]

[quote="archetypo"]One question I do have - how do you get videos to embed? Or is there a post somewhere about formatting that I just haven't found yet?[/quote]

If the URL of the video is something like

http://www.vimeo.com/22251295

then you can embed it like this:

[video]www.vimeo.com/22251295[/video]

Just strip the http:// prefix and surround it with the video tags. For this to work, you need to switch on BB-code in the editing preferences of your user control panel. (I think BB-code is on by default.)

Cheers,

Michi.

[archetypo]

Thanks Michi - so, like this then:



This is yet another small preview of something that may (or may not) end up in the video - as you can see, there's the guy with the tripod in my frame. It was actually pretty hilarious - almost that entire trip, nearly everything I shot ended up with this guy in it somewhere

[archetypo]

Here's another video from that same session, with, miraculously, no tripod!