This show features the great living sabar drummer Birame Ndiaye Rose, a prolific public performer, griot, and son of the legendary late Doudou Ndiaye Rose.
Equal parts feature on Birame and on his father, this show includes several recordings made with Birame by LABOUR in Dakar between 2012-2019, alongside recordings of his father when Birame was still a child. From here, the show highlights a few equally complex percussion works from Iannis Xenakis plus avant-garde works from a number of composers, and perhaps freely draws links to both the noisier and moodier aspects of the sabar drums and the abundant social situations in which they are found on a daily basis throughout Dakar and Senegal.
