Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Hi All,


I ended up watching a video from this guy Jamal on the web today (see link below). Hard to practise anything after that...





Sorry for dial-up people but this is beautiful.


Cheers

2 comments:

Brian D. said...

Very nice tone. Look like a cross between a djembe and a darabouka ? . ... but can he play funk like us Surdo players though ?

Remko said...

Hmmm interesting. Very good player. However, does it swing? Does it inspire? The guy plays like he's dead! It reminds me a bit of hard rock guitar solos - technically incredibly difficult and fast, but is it beautiful music? Can you dance to it?

By the way, you may notice that roughly in the middle of the movie he plays a rhythm that is very similar to the Maculele that we played with Carlos last week. Which, indeed, is a rhythm straight from Africa.

Thanks for sharing this with us!