Off Topic: This is a fantastic short film that takes a look at the role of rhythm in the life of the rural Malinke village of Baro, in central Guinea. World-class djembe masters like Famoudou Konate hail from the area around Baro.
The film, Foli, benefits from the directors’ choice to let the rhythm of motion speak for itself, through clever editing and killer sound.
With electronic music, it’s easy to divorce cause and effect – and rhythm from motion. Foli is a reminder of the power of rhythm connected to motion.
FOLI
Life has a rhythm, it’s constantly moving.
The word for rhythm ( used by the Malinke tribes ) is FOLI.
It is a word that encompasses so much more than drumming, dancing or sound.
It’s found in every part of daily life.
In this film you not only hear and feel rhythm but you see it.
It’s an extraordinary blend of image and sound that
feeds the senses and reminds us all
how essential it is.
By the brothers Thomas Roebers en Floris Leeuwenberg
Film crew during one month in Baro, Guinee Afrika.
Beutifull sound recording and sound design Bjorn Warning
Translator and Rhythm specialist Thomas Bonenkamp
via the Submit A Story page
This is actually a cool video. How ever Deep forest were cutting records like this years ago.
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Actually – didn't Deep Forest take samples of pygmies and put a disco beat on them?
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This is the 21st century; the time to conserve natrual resources before they're gone. Saving culture is important for sure, but not at the expense of cutting down beautiful, live hardwood trees for anything, much less a single drum, or killing a beautiful animal for it's skin, to make a drum head. ALL humans need to wise up, even the so-called "primitive" ones. If someone can't figure out how to make a drum or drum head, or any other musical instrument for that matter without killing something in the process, maybe they should consider recycling themselves.
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This is wonderful in so many ways!
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This is pure and total AWESOMENESS…And indeed Africa is the center of rhythm…
@noob Deep Forest is cool fore sure but th peeps in this video are the 'archetypes' of rhythm…of course they are…
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Nah, they did much more then that.
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I know right? I know we are burning all kinds of coal using our computers doin way more damage then these people. I mean c'mon really? After 2012 I'll probably start making beats and drums like them. Cause we won't be bitching on comptuers anymore. lol
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Rust Creep, look around you. There is very little, if anything in this universe that wouldn't be better off if we didn't exist. Sure we're "rad and beautiful", but only to each other, and that narrow concept is unfortunately enough for most of us. We conceptualize an emotion we call "love" which some of us believe may "save" us, but the truth is most of us are just egomaniacal, fancy monkeys that let our over-active imaginations drive us crazy thousands of years ago (ie., superstition, the god concept, religion, etc., etc.). If you choose to hide your head in the sand, that's up to you. By the way, I don't loath myself (just my/our shortcomings), and I'm not ignorant, but I am preachy.
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This guy cuts down a tree to make a drum. We cut down millions of trees so we can wipe our asses with toilet paper.
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Dude such a clueless statement. It reminds me of the saying "No sex please we're british". Fortunately for humans we are the anomaly and have managed to transcend just surviving. We've created culture and for the better. Your attitude would've ensured women were still beaten and subservient whilst slaves were just a commodity. Thank god you are are staunchly in the minority.
An amazing video! Bravo for the people of Guinea.
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