Very Shorts #2: Tamakat Yi (Les Joueurs de Tam-Tam) / senegal traditional percussion drums

These are all traditional players of Tama. The Tama is the senegalese talking drum, specially built with the skin of a lizzard called Mbeut (a monitor lizzard) because of its elasticity and reverberation. The Tama has been used for long and had very specific coded language for specific special occasions. The Tama players in this video are griots and live in one of the oldest villages by the Lac de Guiers, Mérina Ghene (also known as Mérina Ngueweul). They are semi-professional players, playing in cerimonies wherever they're called to. When they are not playing most are tending to their fields.
The main figure is Abdou Samb, also known as Abdou "Boye", who has learnt the trade from his father and has played with the likes of Assane Thiam and others.
filmed in 2012, Keur Momar Sarr

[@Mansa-Ali]

I love his smile. It's so contagious. I have a big smile on my face while watching this video. Lol

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Le Tama way du galsen 🇸🇳

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POV : Mon prof me dit"je vous envoie le lien de la vidéo".

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j'ai besoin leur numéro siltplai 'j adore

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Abdou Samb 00221 77 631 73 86

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Thim li geuna djiêk thi yêên moy diangue khasida walla wassifa