British world music ensemble Rafiki Jazz have a new music video titled ‘Nduggu Bouy (Too Much Dust)’. The song appears on the band’s recent album “Nduggu: Dust.”
The song focuses on what is happening in the Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara to the north and Sudan to the south. Rafiki Jazz reflect, “The global climate emergency is bringing acute desertification across the Sahel.”
Musicians on Nduggu Bouy include Kadialy Kouyate on vocals and kora; Sarah Yaseen on vocals and jembe; Millie Chapanda on hosho (Zimbabwean gourds with seeds), dunun, vocal call; Tony Koni on bass; Mina Mikhail Salama on vocals, kawala (Middle Eastern end-blown flute); Catherine Ngozi Carr on guitar; Guery Tibirica on berimbau, pandeiro (Portuguese and Brazilian frame drum) and gumbe (African frame drum); and John Ball on tabla.
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