MANDINGO GRIOT SOCIETY OOP '79 12" DISCO GATE Boonghee

MANDINGO GRIOT SOCIETY DISCO GATE 12"Category / Style / Moods: World 12.77 / S asocc1979 FLYING FISH US 12"TITLE: DISCO GATEARTIST: MANDINGO GRIOT SOCIETYCONDITIONCOVER: GENERICVINYL: VG+Click here for info on grading and abbreviationsOUT OF PRINT ORIGINAL PRESSClick the pix for a better view TRACKS: Disc: 1Biography by Myles Boisen Foday Musa Suso is a Mandingo (West African tribe) griot (hereditary musician and cultural curator) who can trace his hereditary lineage back to the first performer on the 21-string kora lute. After a traditional apprenticeship in Africa, he came to the US in 1977 and formed The Mandingo Griot Society to bring his native sounds to a new, receptive audience. The group included Adam Rudolph (who recently appeared on Hassan Hakmoun's Gift of the Gnawa CD) and had featured jazz trumpeter Don Cherry as a guest, anticipating world-music fusion many years before the worldbeat era. Profile: Boonghee is a new dance music that there is no specific rhythm to. It's a gathering of grooves. Boonghee is onomatopoeia. You feel it in your ass. Lead by the pillow-padded-mallet-hit deep bass resonance and high-pitched hand slaps of the Udu clay drum of West Africa, Boonghee Music is very circular and profound. Something like a phenomenon, and somewhat a mixture of minimal hip hop, Big Black hand drumming, and broken-beat, Boonghee Music is all organic, with no electronics, save for the recording apparatus. The colors atop the drums are vast and streaming and can come from any kind of instrument; primarily they are percussive. A few in the collection used for these recordings are dusun’goni, sintir, thumb pianos, harmonium, batajon, talking drums, dumbeks, and flutes. Bringing this music to life are two incredibly gifted drummer/percussionist /composers from Chicago that have been running together since they were 14. Adam Rudolph & Hamid Drake met in a drum shop on the East Side of Chicago and later took classes together with local A.ssociation for the A.dvancement of C.reative M.usicians elders. Today, some 30 years past that genesis, the two are world-renowned in many circles of music for their very special, expressive styles and range. From, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Joseph Jarman, Bennie Maupin, the late Don Cherry and many others famous for their contributions to so-called jazz, Rudolph and Drake have put there mark on many important groups and eras. From Drake's touring with avant garde bassist Fred Anderson, session work with Bill Laswell and many other projects in between, and Rudolph's Meta Records catalogue of independently produced albums with his group Moving Pictures, opera recordings, and many an experimental set with Yusef Lateef, the two keep very busy. You will find an 18 year old Rudolph playing congas on the Strata album Maulawi and you will find Rudolph, Drake, Foday Mussa Suso and Don Cherry on the obscure late 70's recording Mandingo Griot Society. The list of artists that these two have played with is too long to give here. Hassan Hakmoun, Lester Bowie, Joe Bowie, Kenny Cox, . . . it's realy long. Occasionally making time for their own ideas to come together in a duet style - Hu Vibrational was born the last time Drake made it to Los Angeles and the two decided to make a dance record. This exquisite piece of retro music history is a vinyl sound recording (not a CD). Please visit the A Sound Deal store for similar items and information on grading and shipping. Add me to your favorites for red hot sales bulletins and sneak previews of upcoming products. Combine Items to Save $$$! Click here to check the store for more!©A Sound Deal