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« Kouyaté faasa » is a cast song, containing praising verses devoted to Kuyateh family, the first jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music
as he want and hear it... Read more. from Manden. The sons of Balla Fasseke Kouyaté, are admittedly the guardians of the tradition. Note that « Kouyaté
faasa » often refers to praising verses from the «Soumaworo
faasa », for Soumaworo Kante became the «djatiguia (d)jatigui is a patron or a family ; in honor of him (them), in exchange for benefits and a
certain material comforts, the griot should use to sing, at will, his praise and eulogy of his clan... Read more. » of Balla Fasséké.
« Kuyateh faasa » is often performed when the clan is singing « LambanInitially,
«Lamban» was devoted to the Kouyate lineage, who belonged to the very first family of jelis in Mande... Read more about. (Jaliya) », an another song, devoted, at the beginning, to the
Kuyate family ; that song reminds to everyone the superiority of that clan over all the jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and
praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read more. in the « Djely(i)a » (art of the jèlílua jèlí (plural, jèlílu) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages,
singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read more. ). The women of the Kuyateh group use to sing again and again the chorus clapping hands in rhythm and beat on their karignan,
a little percussive bell.
That tune has been adapted and devoted to a jèlímusowa jèlí (plural, jèlílu,
jèlímusow, feminine) is a bard, loremaster, and praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read
more. from the Kuyateh family, who was living in Gambia in the beginning of the XXth century ; therefore, the tune has been called « Bantamba Kuyateh ». Many other adaptations of
that « basis-song » had been made ; one of te most famous is « Barana » by Kassé Mady Diabaté and Sekouba
« Bambino » Diabaté.
Famous performers of « Kuyateh faasa » :
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