bewaa is a traditional harvest music of the dagara people of west africa and features the gyile wooden xylophone with accompanying drums. sequences of drum patterns reflect dance movements, and in our arrangement drum set plays these traditional drum open and mute tones between floor and mounted toms over a bass drum-high-hat heartbeat and swing feel on cymbal. wes, art, and david interact with the bewaa drum set rhythms throughout.
credits
from time changes,
track released February 5, 2019
(c) royal hartigan; rhythmic structure based on the bewaa dance drumming of the dagara people of west africa; (c) the dagara people
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