Name: Sökö De Faranah by Lanciné Conde
Duration: 3 min 58 s
Description: This track is from the album The Malinké Flute: Songs from Guinea, West Africa and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lancineconde

This track is from the album The Malinké Flute: Songs from Guinea, West Africa and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lancineconde

Sökö De Faranah

Lanciné Conde is a master of the Malinké flute tradition who was born and raised in the small village of Sanankoro, in the Hamanah region near Kouroussa, in Guinea, West Africa.

Lanciné was steeped in the music of his people from a very early age. Well versed in the traditional drumming of his village, he is proficient in the dunun (bass) drums, but his specialty is playing the tambin, or fulé: a unique 3-holed transverse flute made from a woody vine that grows along the banks of the river (it is also known as the Fula or Fulani flute, for its origins among those peoples). On the flute, Lanciné brings forth even the most complicated of musical passages with the ease and grace of one who has spent a lifetime mastering its subtleties and nuances.