Marietou Camara & Naby Bangoura = dance... Mohamed Kouyate = balafon, dunduns... Karamba Diabate = djembe... Kemoko Sano = double djembe
From the original program notes, April 19th 2003, Hertz Hall, University of California BERKELEY Music Department:
"A popular dance-drumming celebrating a good fishing season."
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Kemoko Sano trained some of the finest Guinean artists of the generation that came of age after Guinean Independence in 1958. These include Mamady Keita, as well as the director and most of the original members of Percussions de Guinée. For almost five decades, "Sano" directed large music and dance ensembles from Guinea in regional, national, and international venues beginning with the Prefectural troop of Macenta in 1960, the ballet National Djoliba from 1973 to 1986 and Merveilles d'Afrique, which he founded in 1986.
In 1986, Sano became the choreographer of Les Ballets Africains, in which capacity he rehearsed and made new works for the national company. At the time of his transfer from Le Ballet National Djoliba to Les Ballets Africains, he was asked to select the 10 best musicians and dancers from the former troop to join Les Ballets Africains, where they became a principal artists. He performed with them throughout the world, and was recognized in francophone West Africa as one of the foremost exponents of traditional music and dance.
