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Burkina Faso: Lobi Country

Label: OCORA

Format: CD

Genre: Folk

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The Lobi people of Southern Burkina Faso and Northern Ghana and Ivory Coast were fiercely resistant to colonization and remain a relatively close society today. This has aided the continuing existence of marvelous xylophone music to accompany funerals and initiation ceremonies. This album is of music played on buur xylophones, buur also being the name for the closing ceremony of the initiation of diviners. Recordings from 1998.
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Cat. number: OCORA 560194
Year: 2006

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