1. Moussa Thiobely Ba is part of a big griot family and is a young man of 25 years old. His 1 year old baby hangs on his back and a cigarette hangs from his mouth as he improvises on his electric guitar in front of a small modest room that he have built in the complex of all the griot houses. 
2. "Generation Mbamba", a family of griots band.
3. Tidiane Thiam plays Dannibe (released originally on Sahel Sounds records).
4. We are shielding from the midday sun in a room that is used as a Taylor’s workshop in the village while waiting for the lunch to be ready. Moussa starts to sing.
5. Baye Fall called Lamp sings a praise for Mame Diarra, Sufi Saint Amadou Bamba’s mother. 
6. In between the rainy days, we take out some rugs and some instruments to the green outside the village. Fouta is normally a burn out desert, but rain has brought in all this vegetation. All cousins take turns to play their songs while I record in front of them. This one is by Moussa Thiobely Ba.
7. Samba is a young griot, a cousin of Mousssa. He makes a living playing his electric guitar and singing praisals when people hire him to come over. He always records his performance on his phone and after sends it to me via Whatsapp, so that when I am back in London, a little piece of Fouta Toro is always with me.
8. We are shielding from the midday sun in a room that is used as a Taylors workshop in the village while waiting for the lunch to be ready. Moussa starts to sing a cover of a song I am still yet to find. He begins softly, just as something to do during a calm moment but it turns out to be powerful as everyone joins it a bit. I came to the village to meet Samba & Alessane, Moussa was their cousin, but after this performance I realised that Moussa was an incredible singer too.
9. Baye Fall called Lamp sings a praise for Mame Diarra, Sufi Saint Amadou Bamba’s mother. Lamp is a kind and generous man with an impressive set of dreadlocks who let us put up our tents in his family house yard in a small town of Casamance.
10. Samba sings while his father, a famous griot in the area plays Houddu, the traditional instrument made of carved wood & animal skin and three strings. We just had breakfast and I was getting ready to leave the village slightly nostalgic and saddened to leave. The song brightens the mood.
11. A first call to prayer at dawn in Maata-Moulaana, a semi-autonomous village following Sufi Islamic order. 
12. Laye sings a devotional Baye Fall song by the fire in the evening inside my friend Amdy’s workshop and a place where Baye Falls of the village gather.
13. Bamba Tokara Bamba from ‘Generation Mbamba’ - a griot family band sings his song about a Sufi Saint Amadou Bamba.
14. Hamet Thiobely Ba.
15. Devotional chant is blasting through the distorted speaker.
16. Samba Thiobely Ba.
17. The beginning verse of Dahim's favourite traditional track.
18. Me and Dahim listen to an old Mauritanian track, Dahim is talking me through it.
19. Samba Ba plays the traditional Fulani instrument Hoddu and Alessane reads a praisal from a poetry book by Mamadou Samba Diop. 
20. Moussa and Lamp sing a devotional song while sharing a spliff. 
21. A Fulani griot of Ado village, named Abdurahman Diallo, plays me a traditional riff while he shares some insights on life while playing the Hoddu. He says “life is like a film, everyone has got their role to play”…
22. A snippet from the rain season celebration performance in Hamarabe village. Ladies of the griot family sing an improvised traditional Fulani song. 


ON THE ROAD - Fulani songs  & Baye Fall devotional music  (field recording mixtape)

✍️ الأبيات للشاعر أبي عبادة الوليد بن عبيد الطائي المشهور بـ البحتري (206–284هـ / 821–897م)، أحد كبار شعراء العصر العباسي.
عُرف برقة أسلوبه حتى لُقّب شعره بـ «سلاسل الذهب»، ويُعَدُّ مع المتنبي وأبي تمام من أعلام القرن الثالث الهجري (التاسع الميلادي).
نشأ في بلاط الخلفاء العباسيين (مثل المتوكل) وكان مقرَّبًا من وزرائهم وأمرائهم، وخلّف ديوانًا ضخمًا جمع بين الغزل والمديح والوصف والحكمة.إعادة تقديم معاصرة

طيف الحبيب ألم من أعدائه  
وبعيد موقع أرضه وسمائه  

جزع اللوى عجلا ووجه مسرعا  
من حزن أبرقه إلى جرعائه  

يهدي السلام وفي اهتداء خياله  
من بعده عجب وفي إهدائه  

لو زار في غير الكرى لشفاك من  
خبل الغرام ومن جوى برحائه  

وضياء وجه لو تأمله امرؤ  
صادي الجوانح لارتوى من مائه


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