Actually all those genres started in America and we influenced the Africans. I love this music, but lets not distort history. These Artist even say it themselves. Johnny Lee Hooker was a huge influence on Ali Farka Toure and that whole African blues sound.
@@oliveryt7168 That might be true, but I’m talking about certain rhythms and sounds that they got from Black Americans. Even Afro beats/beat is influenced by Black Americans. You can hear our sound heavy in some of their music.
@@chopitupradio4286 Not true . If you really think the slaves brought from Africa developed their own American music in a vacuum without some native African influence (notwithstanding the deliberate attempt by European masters to eliminate their native culture), you're to say the least wrong. I can refer a book (published in the 1960s) that can attest to this.
The impact of traditional African music on todays mainstream music is undeniable. The African continent always stood out when it comes to creativity, art and music.
@@mcrusty2507 Blues (West African griot tradition), jazz (African syncopation and polyrhythms combined with European characteristics), gospel (African spirituals and work songs), reggae (Nyabinghi Rastafarians), samba (slaves from the Yoruba and Congo regions shipped to Brazil invented it), hip hop (African griot culture), funk (West African polyrhythms) and so many more. Come back to me with facts after you educate yourself and stop being ignorant.
@@Invictus44i But what part of that makes you think that Africa stands out in creativity art and music. As if you think other peoples don't have Art as good or better than that.
@@mcrusty2507 Maybe because African traditional Music has such an enormous influence on today’s mainstream music we here ?? All major music genres of today are heavily influenced by african music. Are you too slow to understand?
@@Invictus44i All major music genres are today are massively influenced by European tradition, are you too slow to understand that? Africa doesn't have some special unique talent. To claim that Africa stands out in art is completely delusional.
I'm a gullah geechee jamaican descent in U.S.A and ultimately a Mandinka descent/West Afrikan descent and I've come back to dis song so many times since I've found it, shed tears and all (many times). My grandfatha played blues and my fatha and uncle love da blues. I make music myself (Hip Hop). We descend from deez people, Djeliw. dis is da root of blues. da tings he sings about here resonate even here. da Earth hasn't changed but da people of today have. (many of our people are forgetting our culture & original ways of living) and even still, so many tings have remained da same. (especially within our culture, it jus looks a lil different) to any Afrikan diaspora descendant reading dis, its for a reason. our ancestas are wakin up within us and calling us back home. if you found dis video & dis comment, its bcuz you was guided here. you have a culture & home in Afrika, you have noble and honorable traditions. seek and embrace dem. one love and Afrikan liberation for all people wanting & willing to be free. ❤🖤💚
I am from brazil we have the samba de bamba its origin is bambara although it is talking about nonsense now in the 90's it spoke of lovin for the morenas morenas is how call black women it is moorish name because we descend from the bambara moorish people.
The roots of blues, jazz, funk and pop music are from Mali.From one region of the country to another region you will find different styles. Malian music is richer. One day a Jamaican woman whose husband is from Mali was having her hair braided by my wife, and I played a video of a diva from Mali, my country, she was amazed. She said this sounds like reggae music. The song is a traditional Malian song and not modernized at all. We used to live in Washington DC at that time. It was in 1998. Thank you guys! We can see how the world is small.❤❤❤
She said it sounds like reggae bc reggae is based on African-American blues. Dancehall parties used to be called 'blues parties' in the 1940s. Modern Jamaican music is heavily founded in African-American music. Sir Cox Dodd, Bob Marley, Count Matchukie & others were all inspired by Blk American radio stations they picked up in Jamaica. Pre 1940s Jamaican music sounded nothing like it does today. And you are correct African-American music is rooted in sahalian music which is why we're so heavy on string instruments vs other blk cultures in the Americas that are heavy on the drums. Blk Americans came from the sahel and we retained so much of our ancestral musical culture ❤
@Tshabalala-em3wj i got the receipts to prove it baby. Don't make me school you on your own culture chile. You'll be embarrassed. Hell google Sir Coxanne Dodd yourself if you don't believe me.
@@Gigi-fp8pdur actually stupid . If you were smart you’d know guitars are modern day version of west African ngoni which is one of the oldest string instruments . And we’ve always made music like this but ofc we don’t speak English so we don’t call the genre jazz . Learn YOUR history
Love from Libya.. lots of immigrants from Mali cross Libya and they are treated in the worst ways, I feel ashamed of my people's attitude and actions towards immigrants, our brothers and sisters. One day, beauty, love and our shared humanity will prevail! RIP Ali
They must have some bantu thing going on in their blood because dunia is in Kiswahili back home...I love African music...it resonates everwhere with many other Africans...so lovely my people...so lovely...God bless you my people! God bless you! ☺
Other comments say that blues, and by extension jazz and rock descend from this style. That being said, the instruments they chose to render this song are western. In reality, nothing separates us. One love
RIP Ali Farka Touré. A jamais dans mon coeur depuis la première fois que je vous ai écouté, vers 1993, en concert à Ouagadougou. Un des plus grands chocs musical de ma vie. Vous avez bouclé la boucle : la fusion parfaite du blues qui venait d’Afrique avec l’Afrique qui avait enfanté le blues. Votre musique me donne la nostalgie d’un pays que je n’ai jamais connu, et on dit de la nostalgie que c’est la tristesse d’avoir été heureux.
In Africa we use music to achieve different reasons, sometimes it is for enjoyment, sadness or to heal our souls from the melancholy mood, it is gift bestowed to us by our ancestors
@@lilmee7469 before the god of the Semites and even the Arabs, we had our own gods. What the missionaries brought to Africa was barbarism and slavery. Our ancestors were killed, raped, oppressed and enslaved in their own lands. No loving god would allow that. He is false.
@@usagi1641 I can't sin against something that doesn't even exist to begin with let alone believe in it. It's a wishful utopia borrowed from the Zoroastrian religion from when the Israelites were captives in Babylonia.
Suomi, marsalkka Mannerheimin maa, jolle annettiin oppitunti vastustamisesta koko maailmalle pelastamalla maansa Neuvostoliiton hyökkäykseltä ja Suomen ansiosta ihmiskunta saattoi tietää, että valta oleminen ei ole synonyymi vähemmän voimakkaiden mielissä vaeltamisen kanssa.
From Eritrea. Love west African music. There is just something about it that soothes the soul. I was introduced to Malian music by listening to Habib Koite. One love from one African to another !
I love so much Malian music not because I'm Malian but it's the best in Africa. Ali Farka Touré, Oumou Sangare, Toumany Diabaté, Salif Keita, Amadou et Mariam, Habib Koïta..... Each region of the country has its own style of music and culture. It is diversity that makes the source of musical inspiration inexhaustible
@@gerrard6107 I couldn’t agree more, W African Music changed me; there is a Xhosa saying ‘people become people through other people’ and I became a person when i heard this music: Fatala stopped me in my tracks; Oumou Sangaré showed me how to clean the altar; Ali Farka Touré mesmerized us in Vancouver and changed music for me; Baaba Maal: what can I possibly say about Baaba Maal? He brought it to life!; Fatoumata Diawara is wonderful, and Amadou and Mariam are as good as it can ever be; I thank God for them every day all every day.
When we have listen Manemosh dibo first it was the best of any one music for us since to day we are always listen any Ethiopian song mosly amahra Tigray
@@brentbeatty4171 I’m originally from Kenya but did long haul truck driving across America for a decade. Now I’m retired with my “3 wives” in the African Savannah. Miss those good old days cruising through I-64 mountains 🏔️ listening to the blues.
I'm a Somali We have the Kaban/Qarami style of blues. Played on Oud guitars. Both Boubacar Traore and Ali Farka played soul-touching music rhythms. Pure talent from the beautiful country of Mali
Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la the world has not changed, it is the people of today have changed Ni kokè mousso mi yé , o bi maflé nalomayé if you do something for a woman, she thinks you're an idiot Ni kokè tié ba mi yé , o bi maffé fiyentoyé if you do something for a man, he thinks you're blind oh Na , Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la .... oh mother , ...
I feel a deep deep connection to West African music. I just don't know how to really explain it. It's so spiritual. That's the power of music. Love from Cameroon 🇨🇲
I’m a “senior” American Jewish woman who has always listened to and appreciated music from all around the world. This traditional African stuff is so easy and natural to hear. We don’t need to understand the words… it’s just Great Music! Thanks for this video. 🎶🌍🌎🌏🎶
@@thornil2231you can be both. Judaism is a religion and culture. People can be from Jewish descendants. It is not a country. Give you 2 examples: If she was a Christian, she would be a American christian woman. And if she lived in Israel, she would/ could identify as a Israeli Jewish woman. So being Jewish is not a country.
thanks for making a difference between music from mali and music from "example" congo bcz ppl always say " i love african music" like it was one homogenic group of people with the same culture sory english
I'm from the South of the same motherland. I absolutely love the melodies from Mali. They touch my spirit. I feel like I'm communing with the ancestors when I listen to these songs
I'm Hungarian. Duna is what we called the river Danube. This song (melody, rhythm) resembles to a Hungarian folk song: "A bolhàsi kertek alatt". Amazing, beautiful❤❤❤
This music soothes a good ole country boy from Alabama like me. They sound like a couple of dudes you would catch playing juke joint blues in the Mississippi Delta on a sunny hot lazy day. Nice.
S.A wow kasimir seems a pretty interesting region I think you guys have suffered in the same way as my country... Good luck and best wishes from Mexico
th-cam.com/video/qtFqyNlsHXU/w-d-xo.html listen to Sam "lightnin" Hopkins play and you will see that nothing really changed but the language but the soul and chord rhythm remains the same also the story behind it" almost sounds the same!!
Listening to these extraordinary musicians you can understand what really means African American Music...Here you can hear where blues, folk and the soul of an entire country came from. Love from Italy ..
@@classicgooner3661 you sir hit the nail on the head.......you should listen to Gabay tix leh youtube it.....caydaruuus, it has the guitar....you know what they say about string instruments, it touches the soul......
True ... the overall vibe is very reggae-esque. The flow, the wave you ride when listening. it's a continuity within the notes, around the spaces, the people. #Garvey #Tosh
No matter when you come from Peter Tosh once said,,,He was absolutely right. I come from the Northside of Italy and I was born on an ancient Gyptian tribe from North India,,,I can say this music can clean my soul and make me feel more relaxed and full of good vibes ,, Thanks Mama Africa ,Sorry for all the people who don't understand and disrespect the Mother land
Hahahaha. Of course, this man is coolness himself in the most beautiful, tranquil and positive way. Love each and every sound, peace of mind and strength that his music has been giving to me over more than one decade
I love how he lights up his cigarette at the beginning...that air of nonchalance..such people transcend the musical scale beyond the mechanics and theory and take it to sublime levels.
Yaisn AdmaAnd you can to be it! I would like to be proud to be French, currently, like you are be proud to be African. Peace be upon you and your loved ones. We are brothers.
Awesome Goosbumps ça prend aux tripes tout ce blues jazz soul ce monsieur est just 5:10 e incroyable. J’ai des frissons à chaque fois que je l’écoute. Touré Mandé Mory
Africans were taken from their homes, families, culture,and everything they owned. All they had left was the music in their hearts. Those are the people who gave us blues. Sure they adapted it to with western instruments, but it was all they had. The history of Africa has been to long over looked.
I was so lucky to see Ali Farka Toure at WOMAD....he played his beautiful music out on the lawn in afternoon Sun to an audience of about twenty people...brilliant !
I remember I was listening to Savane walking alone at night in the middle of nowhere in Tenerife desert and that was one of the most beautiful moments for the last few years: just me, darkness, calm air and his majesty Ali Farka Toure. Greetings from Russia!
I always feel like I'm waking up in a Saharan Bed & Breakfast place, run by people who would have my back in a fight, when I listen to this. A peaceful but powerful feeling. Here we go with 2025....
when i was young i was listening to them. it was very difficult to hear. that song was showing my soul very poor. so i was afraid of be with them in this sound. after 5 kids born from my womb my soul started grow. now i can feel them with full joy. thank you for reading. this is not my account.
I hear blues, I hear jazz, I hear soul music. This is where it all started. Much respect.
Yep. When I heard the melody I instantly thought of blues. Beautiful origins and connections
Actually all those genres started in America and we influenced the Africans. I love this music, but lets not distort history. These Artist even say it themselves. Johnny Lee Hooker was a huge influence on Ali Farka Toure and that whole African blues sound.
@@chopitupradio4286 They're even playing instruments that were invented in Europe..
@@oliveryt7168 That might be true, but I’m talking about certain rhythms and sounds that they got from Black Americans. Even Afro beats/beat is influenced by Black Americans. You can hear our sound heavy in some of their music.
@@chopitupradio4286 Not true . If you really think the slaves brought from Africa developed their own American music in a vacuum without some native African influence (notwithstanding the deliberate attempt by European masters to eliminate their native culture), you're to say the least wrong. I can refer a book (published in the 1960s) that can attest to this.
The impact of traditional African music on todays mainstream music is undeniable. The African continent always stood out when it comes to creativity, art and music.
Not really.
@@mcrusty2507 Blues (West African griot tradition), jazz (African syncopation and polyrhythms combined with European characteristics), gospel (African spirituals and work songs), reggae (Nyabinghi Rastafarians), samba (slaves from the Yoruba and Congo regions shipped to Brazil invented it), hip hop (African griot culture), funk (West African polyrhythms) and so many more. Come back to me with facts after you educate yourself and stop being ignorant.
@@Invictus44i But what part of that makes you think that Africa stands out in creativity art and music. As if you think other peoples don't have Art as good or better than that.
@@mcrusty2507 Maybe because African traditional Music has such an enormous influence on today’s mainstream music we here ?? All major music genres of today are heavily influenced by african music. Are you too slow to understand?
@@Invictus44i All major music genres are today are massively influenced by European tradition, are you too slow to understand that? Africa doesn't have some special unique talent.
To claim that Africa stands out in art is completely delusional.
I'm a gullah geechee jamaican descent in U.S.A and ultimately a Mandinka descent/West Afrikan descent and I've come back to dis song so many times since I've found it, shed tears and all (many times). My grandfatha played blues and my fatha and uncle love da blues. I make music myself (Hip Hop). We descend from deez people, Djeliw. dis is da root of blues. da tings he sings about here resonate even here. da Earth hasn't changed but da people of today have. (many of our people are forgetting our culture & original ways of living) and even still, so many tings have remained da same. (especially within our culture, it jus looks a lil different) to any Afrikan diaspora descendant reading dis, its for a reason. our ancestas are wakin up within us and calling us back home. if you found dis video & dis comment, its bcuz you was guided here. you have a culture & home in Afrika, you have noble and honorable traditions. seek and embrace dem. one love and Afrikan liberation for all people wanting & willing to be free. ❤🖤💚
💯 ❤❤❤
I am from brazil we have the samba de bamba its origin is bambara although it is talking about nonsense now in the 90's it spoke of lovin for the morenas morenas is how call black women it is moorish name because we descend from the bambara moorish people.
All our ancestors are screaming mate. We all need to get back to be human beings
@@Civilis1980 aṣé
welcome back brother❤
The roots of blues, jazz, funk and pop music are from Mali.From one region of the country to another region you will find different styles. Malian music is richer.
One day a Jamaican woman whose husband is from Mali was having her hair braided by my wife, and I played a video of a diva from Mali, my country, she was amazed. She said this sounds like reggae music. The song is a traditional Malian song and not modernized at all. We used to live in Washington DC at that time. It was in 1998.
Thank you guys! We can see how the world is small.❤❤❤
She said it sounds like reggae bc reggae is based on African-American blues. Dancehall parties used to be called 'blues parties' in the 1940s. Modern Jamaican music is heavily founded in African-American music. Sir Cox Dodd, Bob Marley, Count Matchukie & others were all inspired by Blk American radio stations they picked up in Jamaica. Pre 1940s Jamaican music sounded nothing like it does today. And you are correct African-American music is rooted in sahalian music which is why we're so heavy on string instruments vs other blk cultures in the Americas that are heavy on the drums. Blk Americans came from the sahel and we retained so much of our ancestral musical culture ❤
@@Gigi-fp8pd Much appreciated! Thank you!!!
@Tshabalala-em3wj i got the receipts to prove it baby. Don't make me school you on your own culture chile. You'll be embarrassed. Hell google Sir Coxanne Dodd yourself if you don't believe me.
@@Gigi-fp8pdur actually stupid . If you were smart you’d know guitars are modern day version of west African ngoni which is one of the oldest string instruments . And we’ve always made music like this but ofc we don’t speak English so we don’t call the genre jazz . Learn YOUR history
@@Gigi-fp8pd Sahelian, Mali music is some of my favorite World Music. I was in Mali and Burkina Faso. I loved it. I'll never forget my trip.
Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la: "the world has not changed, it is the people of today have changed"
And the rest? 🙈
yes small! but nice to know it's not flat!
sometimes humans can be extremely beautiful
Nice comment. It made me feel better about mankind. Thanks.
Flur Chorrein somthime
Humans can be most beautiful only when they have Jesus!
@@nyambatikwamboka7065 yes this is true, but in other words by being your self for all the people who have different religious/spiritual views.
Flur Chorrein not unless you think like trump.
Love from Libya.. lots of immigrants from Mali cross Libya and they are treated in the worst ways, I feel ashamed of my people's attitude and actions towards immigrants, our brothers and sisters. One day, beauty, love and our shared humanity will prevail! RIP Ali
Just like you and everybody else!
peace allah
@@thinkbikini5096 well done
@@thinkbikini5096 Libyans*
The only Libyan I’ve come across that I will respect you for being honest and standing for truth! There’s only one race: the human race!!
They just saying in the song : the world didn't change but people changed. ( Dunia ma yelema, bi ma de yelemana)
They must have some bantu thing going on in their blood because dunia is in Kiswahili back home...I love African music...it resonates everwhere with many other Africans...so lovely my people...so lovely...God bless you my people! God bless you! ☺
Dunia is also in Arabic.
Aaahhh man! Thank you for translation
Thank you for the translation.
Many thanks for the translation
This almost sounds like western music that’s crazy how far back we can trace roots of genres
Makes me wonder how a place like Ancient Greece would react to hearing this
Other comments say that blues, and by extension jazz and rock descend from this style. That being said, the instruments they chose to render this song are western. In reality, nothing separates us. One love
There were definitely some blues riffs in there.
So much soul and culture. Beautiful melodies and rhythms. Love from a Pakistani brother 🇵🇰
The World does not change but it is people of today who change.
Politics divide us but music and love unite us. Below the skin, we are all the same.
@@vondaheno we are not ! All germans are rascist and fascist people ! Germans only have hate in theyre hearts !
@@PatrickDiabateevery day more lights are shining all over the globe … Its so beautiful; blessings to you 🫶🙏
RIP Ali Farka Touré. A jamais dans mon coeur depuis la première fois que je vous ai écouté, vers 1993, en concert à Ouagadougou. Un des plus grands chocs musical de ma vie. Vous avez bouclé la boucle : la fusion parfaite du blues qui venait d’Afrique avec l’Afrique qui avait enfanté le blues. Votre musique me donne la nostalgie d’un pays que je n’ai jamais connu, et on dit de la nostalgie que c’est la tristesse d’avoir été heureux.
merci ♥️
La nostalgie c'est la tristesse d'avoir été heureux 👌
Bleus africain
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Bel hommage.
In Africa we use music to achieve different reasons, sometimes it is for enjoyment, sadness or to heal our souls from the melancholy mood, it is gift bestowed to us by our ancestors
It is a gift bestowed by God.The one who created everything, even your ancestors and music. Jesus Christ is Lord. Bless you.
That’s true, nothing heals as the beauty of music.
@@lilmee7469 before the god of the Semites and even the Arabs, we had our own gods. What the missionaries brought to Africa was barbarism and slavery. Our ancestors were killed, raped, oppressed and enslaved in their own lands. No loving god would allow that. He is false.
@@usagi1641 I can't sin against something that doesn't even exist to begin with let alone believe in it. It's a wishful utopia borrowed from the Zoroastrian religion from when the Israelites were captives in Babylonia.
Yeah that sums up all humans everywhere and how they use music.
Less is more. This brought sunshine also to Finland. Just great.
Suomi, marsalkka Mannerheimin maa, jolle annettiin oppitunti vastustamisesta koko maailmalle pelastamalla maansa Neuvostoliiton hyökkäykseltä ja Suomen ansiosta ihmiskunta saattoi tietää, että valta oleminen ei ole synonyymi vähemmän voimakkaiden mielissä vaeltamisen kanssa.
@@traorelacine6748 Kiitos ❤️
north Russia felt that
Beautifully said, may the Sun continue to shine in ur heart, always! ☮💖
From Eritrea. Love west African music. There is just something about it that soothes the soul. I was introduced to Malian music by listening to Habib Koite. One love from one African to another !
Ane habesha aye and i love Mali, Algerian, Sénégal music
I'm from Eritrea too. 🇪🇷
My Spotify is full of Malian and Western African music.
it soulful music and am here for it too fella.
As an African American who is part mandinka, this touches my heart. My people 🥺
Respect from Angola, África bro 🙏
This continent is also yours.
Only in Africa does the sunshine reach your eardrums
❤😎🙏
Greetings from UK. Immersive and beautiful music🔫😎😎😎😎😎
The best analysis I have ever read. Love. Thanks
not convinced ... but it sounds lovely to say it
Anyone that says "only in Africa" is bad for the world. Fact
Love for Mali from Ethiopia!
Thanks brother!!
Bete is a girl name, so I’m sure you meant thank you sister!
They kind of sound like Mesfin Abebe right???
@@girmamogus4975 nope Girma. My name is Bete not Betty 😂
When I listen to Malian music my soul feels like heaven. You guys are our pride!!!!!!!!!!!!
wel said bro
I love so much Malian music not because I'm Malian but it's the best in Africa. Ali Farka Touré, Oumou Sangare, Toumany Diabaté, Salif Keita, Amadou et Mariam, Habib Koïta..... Each region of the country has its own style of music and culture. It is diversity that makes the source of musical inspiration inexhaustible
@@gerrard6107 I couldn’t agree more, W African Music changed me; there is a Xhosa saying ‘people become people through other people’ and I became a person when i heard this music: Fatala stopped me in my tracks; Oumou Sangaré showed me how to clean the altar; Ali Farka Touré mesmerized us in Vancouver and changed music for me; Baaba Maal: what can I possibly say about Baaba Maal? He brought it to life!; Fatoumata Diawara is wonderful, and Amadou and Mariam are as good as it can ever be; I thank God for them every day all every day.
When we have listen Manemosh dibo first it was the best of any one music for us since to day we are always listen any Ethiopian song mosly amahra Tigray
What does this songtext lyrics mean exactly? I cant find a nice translation of this Malian song, please help 😊
Salamu Alikum & Respect
My Mali brothers & Sisters
From Somalia 🇸🇴🇲🇱
Thank you my brother
Shalom Aleichem from West Virginia near Pittsburgh. My name is Brent D Beatty
@@brentbeatty4171 drove through your country hauling freight and now back to my ancestral home in Africa.
@@ibrahimdhere thank you for your reply
I ate Ethiopian food in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania not long ago.
I'll have to try Mali food asap.
@@brentbeatty4171 I’m originally from Kenya but did long haul truck driving across America for a decade. Now I’m retired with my “3 wives” in the African Savannah. Miss those good old days cruising through I-64 mountains 🏔️ listening to the blues.
I'm a Somali
We have the Kaban/Qarami style of blues. Played on Oud guitars.
Both Boubacar Traore and Ali Farka played soul-touching music rhythms. Pure talent from the beautiful country of Mali
Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la
the world has not changed, it is the people of today have changed
Ni kokè mousso mi yé , o bi maflé nalomayé
if you do something for a woman, she thinks you're an idiot
Ni kokè tié ba mi yé , o bi maffé fiyentoyé
if you do something for a man, he thinks you're blind
oh Na , Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la ....
oh mother , ...
Thank you for these translations.
What is the name of the language please? 🙂
Wonderful, thanks for translating 🙏
@@ElNegringoKreyolito somthing from cameroon, mali probably
Dr Xaayoow yaa ku baray luuqadaan ?
@@raghedanan3959 markaan aqriyay commentkaada, waxaan is imooday in an afkoodi bartay
Malian musicians, kings of melody, you don't need to know what their songs say but they can make you sleep like a baby. Love from Cameroon.
▶️🙋♂️🎸
Back ❤️ Cameron . 😄✋ from Kambodscha a Swiss-Mann ☮️ !
I'm bad in English but I hope you understand the idea. They say "The world has not changed but it is human beings who have become unrecognizable"
@@gerrard6107 Sadly, seems to be true
Bwiti tribe music 🎼 😇🥰😎
I feel a deep deep connection to West African music. I just don't know how to really explain it. It's so spiritual. That's the power of music.
Love from Cameroon 🇨🇲
Me too. I'm southern African but something just draws me to music from the Sahel
Me too!
I’m a “senior” American Jewish woman who has always listened to and appreciated music from all around the world. This traditional African stuff is so easy and natural to hear. We don’t need to understand the words… it’s just Great Music! Thanks for this video. 🎶🌍🌎🌏🎶
are you American or Jewish?
@@thornil2231 both! read
@@thornil2231you can be both. Judaism is a religion and culture. People can be from Jewish descendants. It is not a country. Give you 2 examples: If she was a Christian, she would be a American christian woman. And if she lived in Israel, she would/ could identify as a Israeli Jewish woman. So being Jewish is not a country.
Bingo, bat ami: Easy and natural.
Music is the universal language. Love and respect from Brazil
Greetings from a citizen of the most African city outside Africa (Salvador, Bahia) .
Diego Albués Very true! I will be back in Salvador in a few months. Greetings from L.A. 👌🏾🇧🇷
@@Djalo617 Very nice ! Have a good night !
Land of my forefathers
Where is Salvador Bahia.
@@JoseRodriguez-tl9nn In Brazil ! Salvador, Bahia (my city) has 3 million inhabitants and is known as the Carnival city, have you never heard of it?
I want to show my appreciation and love from 🇨🇺 Cuba. This is a great piece of music. One of the most beautiful I have heard.
Viva la musica
diidnt know you guys had internet
The musicians of Mali make the best music in Africa and West African music in general is of a very high standard
thanks for making a difference between music from mali and music from "example" congo bcz ppl always say " i love african music" like it was one homogenic group of people with the same culture sory english
I'm from the South of the same motherland. I absolutely love the melodies from Mali. They touch my spirit. I feel like I'm communing with the ancestors when I listen to these songs
No shit?
Your right
@@adnaneqahoui there you go white man
I'm Hungarian. Duna is what we called the river Danube. This song (melody, rhythm) resembles to a Hungarian folk song: "A bolhàsi kertek alatt". Amazing, beautiful❤❤❤
That's bc Malian music is pentatonic like Hungarian folk music. It's beautiful. It sounds good to us Hungarians.
My daughter's name is Duna. My whole world, strong like Mother River Duna ❤
عاشت أفريقيا قارة الفن و الابداع. مغربي أفريقي و افتخر.
Our beloved people of 🇲🇱 , love from Sudan 🇸🇩
from the home where it all started Africa, mother of music. God bless mama Africa.
Amen
neanderthal bone flute
This is from Mali... not from "mama africa" which is a post colonial vision
@@MrM222222 stop dividing people you stupid post modernist
You can drawer a direct line to JB Lenoir " Down in Mississippi " from this.
Very beautiful! Hugs from Brazil, land of many descendants of Africans.
Yes but Yorubas
We're all descendents of Africans. 🌞
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Actually the majority of Brazilian afro-descendants came from Angola...
Love all the comments from around the world! This American music lover joins you in loving this magical performance!
Amazigh people inspiring music from the southern africans 😢❤
Much love to mama Africa 🎉❤
This music soothes a good ole country boy from Alabama like me. They sound like a couple of dudes you would catch playing juke joint blues in the Mississippi Delta on a sunny hot lazy day. Nice.
I love African rhythms and voices, naturally from the heart.
Karkar un immense merci à toi
Karkar un immense merci à toi .
Beautiful music, and photography, too.
I love how so many people from diffrrent places came here for this.
Greetings from Wyoming, USA.
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
Back in the early 70's I lived up the road from you in Columbia. I worked in Silver Springs.
@@tenaturner3942 Wow, what are the odds. I'm from Silver Spring too.
Takoma Park, MD here! Went to high school in Silver Spring. Our corner of the Mid-Atlantic loves Ali
Greetings from remote outback Australia 🦘🦘
Im Turkish, I have partial african ancestry from my grandmother's side and this video brings me closer to my great ancestors. Thank you for it.
Music does that. ❤
Peaciful and so modest if we thougth the common musics. RIP Ali Farka the king of the West African for who loves music. Love from Turkey.
Mashallah, these are my brothers. Love from Kashmir, Pakistan.
S.A wow kasimir seems a pretty interesting region I think you guys have suffered in the same way as my country...
Good luck and best wishes from Mexico
Juan Pérez Mondragón yes brother, and i love mexico and its culture. We’re with you at heart brother, you are Azteca kings!
@@jubhgioubgob are Mexicans actually descendants of Aztecs?
Blues came from Africa... And this is the evidence!!!! Proud African
Uya Joseph you don’t need evidence for that. It’s a fact as similar to the sun rising in the east.
I can hear the connection too. Incredible.
th-cam.com/video/qtFqyNlsHXU/w-d-xo.html listen to Sam "lightnin" Hopkins play and you will see that nothing really changed but the language but the soul and chord rhythm remains the same also the story behind it" almost sounds the same!!
Blues did not come from Africa you idiot.
Sounds like North Mississippi blues or rather it sounds like this.
Two west African music giants. ❤️ 🇲🇱!
Listening to these extraordinary musicians you can understand what really means African American Music...Here you can hear where blues, folk and the soul of an entire country came from. Love from Italy ..
Not really. You can hear da influence of modern music on da Sahel regions
Bella fratello
Beautiful and so cool.
Much love From the Horn of Africa, From Somalia, 🇸🇴❤🇲🇱
Libaax! Ina afrikaan nahay weligaa ku dhaado
Our Somali music used to be like this 40 years ago now its synthesizer and autotune garbage like everywhere else smh
@@classicgooner3661I fully agree with you,
@@classicgooner3661 you sir hit the nail on the head.......you should listen to Gabay tix leh youtube it.....caydaruuus, it has the guitar....you know what they say about string instruments, it touches the soul......
Salaama saaxb ali
Even in 2023, I find myself still entranced by the beauty of this particular song. Listening to it is like heaven for my ears.
love from Bujumbura Burundi 🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮 Burundi and mali we are the one
I’m from Malaysia..simple but deep..
Thanks 🎉❤
I love all my African brothers and sisters ❤ This music touches deep within my soul. Africa is beautiful!!!
U tripping mzungu who yo brothers and sisters u outta yo gat damn mind ain't u🤔
@@SHANNY13_96all humans are brothers and sisters. I hope you find peace. He’s just tryna spread some love
@@mitch1539 idgaf not in my belief system I'm not lost🤦🏾♀️ 🤮
@@SHANNY13_96 gross, enjoy being a garbage human being
@@SHANNY13_96 What is wrong with you ?
What a great tune from the bottom of their talented souls. Its like listening to the early roots of Reggae and Blues...
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Invented by whites in Europe and the USA!
I did a month long backpacking trip to Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali in 1997. Hard travelling, a great trip, lots of good memories.
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I can hear the foundations for blues but also reggae, especially when they play the off-beat guitar strokes. Just wow
True ... the overall vibe is very reggae-esque. The flow, the wave you ride when listening. it's a continuity within the notes, around the spaces, the people. #Garvey #Tosh
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Love from Ireland! Beautiful
Blessed love from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands - South Pasifik! Beautiful vibes!
No matter when you come from Peter Tosh once said,,,He was absolutely right. I come from the Northside of Italy and I was born on an ancient Gyptian tribe from North India,,,I can say this music can clean my soul and make me feel more relaxed and full of good vibes ,, Thanks Mama Africa ,Sorry for all the people who don't understand and disrespect the Mother land
Man, even the way he lights that match is elegant and blends seamlessly with the guitar. Is it just me who noticed that?
00:04 true master
Were those cigs or big fat ones?
Totally
Hahahaha. Of course, this man is coolness himself in the most beautiful, tranquil and positive way. Love each and every sound, peace of mind and strength that his music has been giving to me over more than one decade
apparently. What are you lighting with your match?
This is so peaceful and sublime. One of the most beautiful guitar pieces I've ever heard.
Respect and love from Algeria 🇩🇿 💚
Привет из России
🇩🇿✌️🇷🇺✌️🇨🇳
África! Mãe do samba, do reggae, do blues e, claro, do rock'n'roll também
I'm Sudanese, from 2008 I still haunted by this music , thank you Boubacar Traore and R.I.P Ali Farka Toure ..
I love how he lights up his cigarette at the beginning...that air of nonchalance..such people transcend the musical scale beyond the mechanics and theory and take it to sublime levels.
And that did not happen here.
What has the cigarette to do with musical talent?
I think he’s trying to say that the music is ingrained in the culture, not something apart that has to be studied.
@@1earflapping cigarettes..culture?
@@dcgallin In the sense that people in his area do it. Nothing to do with Western hoity-toity BS.
The pentatonic scale is deeply embedded in the human DNA everywhere in the world.
ils jouent comme ils respirent c'est deux grand homme, c'est quelque chose que tout les artistes n’ont pas. incroyable incroyable amazing
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Such beautiful sounds, thanks Internet for introducing me to these emotions.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱!
Молодцы, ребята !!
Им бы в своё время играть
в Blood, Sweat & Tears !!
На отрыв и в улёт !!
Привет из России 🇷🇺
и с наилучшими
пожеланиями !!
I m so proud to be African
Yaisn AdmaAnd you can to be it! I would like to be proud to be French, currently, like you are be proud to be African.
Peace be upon you and your loved ones. We are brothers.
What city in Egypt are you from?
me, i'm from Cairo!
Me too....
Black people are the coolest.
Am from Guinea Conakry and I love Mali
We are so great and is the same flag 🇬🇳🇲🇱
Thanks for Sadio mane. YNWA.
Same people
@@neilsarath9812 Close, but he's from Senegal. COYG
I listen 1000 times
Still am listening it
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For me I can't stop replaying the intro...... beautiful
J'ai la nostalgie du Mali.Oui le grand Mali de Soundiata ,de Biton Koulibali de Sonni Ali de Kankan Moussa Vive L' AES depuis Ouallam au NIGER.
I love how this goes on and on. I could listen to them all day. In a wonderful flow state.
I don’t understand the language but it can only be a beautiful song. Thank you 🙏
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ; respect ; warm greetings from France !
Marie tack👍💕
Marie 🙏🌺👍🌹
Marie du bor I
@@osmanomer8796 : France !
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Hello from Latin America, Republic of Panama 🇵🇦. Great musician Mory 🇬🇳
Two absolute legends. Absolutely devastating how poor Boubacar was, despite his immense fame all over the continent and in Mali
Teach the world, my brothers, Afrika is the heart of the world...no apology for anthropology...teach this to the hearers,🙏🏽🙏🏽✊🏾✊🏾👍🏾👍🏾
LOTS OF LOVE FROM INDIA. PROUND OF YOU THAT YOU ARE PRESERVING THE TRANDITIONAL ROOTS .... HATS OFF MAN....
Awesome Goosbumps ça prend aux tripes tout ce blues jazz soul ce monsieur est just 5:10 e incroyable. J’ai des frissons à chaque fois que je l’écoute.
Touré Mandé Mory
I listened to this song all day and I didn't get sick of it, every joint I listened to louder....great!
So honoured to have seen the masterful Ali live during the 1980s in London. RiP
Africans were taken from their homes, families, culture,and everything they owned. All they had left was the music in their hearts. Those are the people who gave us blues. Sure they adapted it to with western instruments, but it was all they had. The history of Africa has been to long over looked.
What ? You mean black Americans ? Africans still have maintained their ancestors cultures
I was so lucky to see Ali Farka Toure at WOMAD....he played his beautiful music out on the lawn in afternoon Sun to an audience of about twenty people...brilliant !
I remember I was listening to Savane walking alone at night in the middle of nowhere in Tenerife desert and that was one of the most beautiful moments for the last few years: just me, darkness, calm air and his majesty Ali Farka Toure. Greetings from Russia!
Africa got robbed by Europeans of every physical things !! but they forgot about our soul and that one ! It’s still here exist here 👉 ❤️🌍
Xactly Brother. You know how hard it is to play those riffs... smh.
The isntrument they are playing on is European, the thing you are watching from is too.
@@randominho3564guitar were invented in india and iphones were invented by an arab. shut up 😂
@@randominho3564the guitar came from Arabs. Not your lot.
@@randominho3564pretty sure my phone is made from china. And probably so is yours lmao
Mali has always been the jewel of Africa!! It's the heart of Africa in every way!!
رغم اختلاف اللغه واللهجة ولكن هناك ما يربطنا لحن واداء قمة الروعة وجمالية البساطه التحية والتقدير لكم أينما كنتم
دمتم بخير
Love to Africa from U.S. Beautiful music brings us all together.
Indeed ❤
Salam from Morocco brothers. ❤
When the talent is there, no need to force it. Respect!
it almost sounds like theres 3 guitars even tho its just them two, its so smooth
Im from Ethiopia...greetings my AFRICAN bloody brothers
Wonderful , greeting from Algeria to 🇩🇿🇲🇱 our neighbor
Blues Africa, is absolutly wonderful.
AFRICAN MUSIC IS SO BEAUTIFUL WALIE !!
I always feel like I'm waking up in a Saharan Bed & Breakfast place, run by people who would have my back in a fight, when I listen to this. A peaceful but powerful feeling.
Here we go with 2025....
Try another titles like : ASCO, AMADRAI, LAIDU,. Rokia Traoré album Mouneissa is too magic
Greetings from Glendale, California. Their music is so raw, pure, and soulful. Thank you!
Beautiful People with Beautiful Vibes, Beautiful Feelings for Them!
Amazing! this music greatly reassembles the music we have in the west of my home country Sudan, darfur. I love the earthy blues and jazz
People in Darfur are related to those in western Sahel.
Love it! From South Africa 🇿🇦
I've had this on loop for 3 days! This brings peace to my soul
when i was young i was listening to them. it was very difficult to hear. that song was showing my soul very poor. so i was afraid of be with them in this sound. after 5 kids born from my womb my soul started grow. now i can feel them with full joy. thank you for reading. this is not my account.