- country:Burkina Faso
- region:West Africa
- style(s):Afro, Percussion
- label:not signed
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Gekkobeat
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In the "Holy Trinity" of the European music (melody, harmony and rhythm) the rhythm plays a rather subordinated role. So, the "discovery" and integration of the music of Africa meant a huge enrichment and, on the other hand, led to a "division of labour", that in most Afro-European groups the Africans got responsibility for the rhythm and the others for melody and harmony. My group the "Bekadiya" is different. The most striking feature of our music is, perhaps, the rich ornamented virtuous xylophone solo. You could say that it speaks Indeed, what you might consider to be beautiful music is in reality the spoken language of my people, the Sambla, transposed into music. Other characteristics of our music are: the Chaconne-like composition technique (variations on a permanently repeated basso ostinato), vertical and horizontal polymetrics (very seldom used features in the European music) and the interlocking technique (the instrumental parts are connected together like cog-wheels to create a dense, melodic and rhythmic composite). Bekadiya combines all these Sambla-features with modern, western Grooves and Jazz elements.