Dò Farala A Kan - Something has been added (Growing into Music: Mali Vol.2) from tulon Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 41 min 80 sec ✓ Published: 29-Apr-2020
Description: Shot on location between 2009 and 2012, the film follows the children of two celebrated jeli (griot) families in southern Mali and explores ideas around what constitutes musical progress in that setting. Our guide in the film is Lassana Diabaté, a virtuoso jeli who comes from a long line of balafon players in Guinea. We follow the musical progress of children in two prestigious extended families of jelis, representing two distinctive regional traditions: the balafon (xylophone) of Niagassola, a