LINGO SEINI ET SON GROUPE - musique hauka LP Books where saxophones and flutes

where saxophones and flutes

Supported by a drummer who truly flips over himself and a voice screaming so intensely and fierce

into things I already know

through a misty and convoluted landscape

is thrilled to announce the reissue of their elusive and legendary follow-up

LINGO SEINI ET SON GROUPE - musique hauka LP Books where saxophones and flutesOne of the first full length recordings of Hauka ritual music. Praise songs and sacred incantations to the spirits to inhabit the body. Call and response chants, the pluck of a monochord lute and relentless pounding percussion combine in a dizzying nonstop session. The Hauka movement started nearly a century ago and has persisted on the fringes of Nigerien society. Documented in the 1955 Jean Rouch film Les maitres fous, the Hauka are a pantheon on