Dombaa Folee: Minianka Medicine Music of Mali

Yaya Diallo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 29, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relaxation
• ASIN: B00000C40P
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #452,649 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. N'Tiekele

2. N'Peen Yee

3. Niarra (The Walk Toward the Infinite)

4. Ka Tan

5. Bafoko Yoko

6. Mo Go Were Man Ntji

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unusally Pleasant and Healing..., August 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dombaa Folee: Minianka Medicine Music of Mali (Audio CD)

I have "installed" this CD in the player for a month and never tired of it. Amazing. When attended it is very entertaining to me and when unattended it is most ambient. The CD went around and around 24/7. It is most wonderful to sleep to at very low levels. Most High-ly Recommended. FIVE out of FIVE STARS.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy Heartbeats, February 1, 2001

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P. Rich "pendrar" (Toledo, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dombaa Folee: Minianka Medicine Music of Mali (Audio CD)

Yaya Diallo, author of The Healing Drum, shares the tribal medicine music of his youth with us here. Rhythmic and at once both gentle and compelling, this music reaches into the soul to soothe and harmonize. This is his gift for us, and a reminder that perhaps Western medicine still has a few things to learn.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Commercial Medicine Music : not pure, February 3, 2002

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"dialo" (South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dombaa Folee: Minianka Medicine Music of Mali (Audio CD)

I like this music. It is inspired by medicine music from Mali, the language is African, but I really can feel that the music is not purely African. Diallo has preferred commercial success among whites, that's why there is some white influence in his music, though to a much lesser extent that many African bands I am ashamed of. Diallo is on the good path, but that's not quite it. To my African brothers, I can recommend a purer healing music Kundidzora Azim's Mbira: Healing Music of Zimbabwe. That's the real stuff you want to get.