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Dombaa Folee: Minianka Medicine Music of Mali

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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.

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.

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.

I've been advocating the healing attributes of some African music for years. Yaya Diallo's music is truely soothing, and not just for Africans. All should try it out...