Product Description

Traces the extraordinary cultural legacy of the Minianka tribe of West Africa, for whom music serves a sacred, healing function for the individual and society. This authentic, traditional chanting and singing expresses the full potential for the sacred and the magical in music. Companion CD to the book The Healing Drum.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #381648 in Books
• Published on: 1994-07-01
• Released on: 1994-07-01
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio CD

Review
Possesses the full potential for the sacred and the magical that it had at the beginning of the world. -- Magazine of the Place des Arts

Review
"This is music that hasn't had its wings clipped; music that still possesses the full potential for the sacred and the magical that it had at the beginning of the world."
(Magazine of the Place des Arts )

"I have been searching for an authentic, traditional CD with chanting and singing, and now I have finally found it."
(Body Mind Spirirt Magazine, October 2003 )

About the Author
Born in Mali, West Africa, and a member of the Minianka (Bamana) tribe, Yaya Diallo was raised in a culture that works, worships, lives and breathes to the beat of the drum. An instrument for transmitting traditional knowledge among the Minianka, the drum is the focal point of Yaya's life story and his link--through the universal medium of music--with the Western world.

Customer Reviews

Traditional music worth sharing!
If you like traditional and ceremonial music from West Africa, you have to check this one out. Born into a family of musicians and healers, Yaya Diallo brings you authentic music from a dying culture. Djembe, dnounouba, balafons, tama, voice, and other instruments grace this cd with the power of music from a society that depends on music for so many things. Healing, celebrating, working, honoring, mending disputes, you name it. It is music from a people that understand the impact of sound, and the effect sounds have on the listener. Four of the twelve tracks are actual field recordings made in Yaya's native village of Fienso.

Energizing
I was looking for a drumming based CD to aid with my soul expansion and this was extremely helpful. Good centering beats!!!!

The Healing Drum: African Music
Having listened to several CD;s of African music, I was disappointed with this CD. Not much "entertainment value", and its quite dry, and monotonous. Enough said....