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Group "Yontii Poulaagu" - Modern Fulani griot music

There is no time to get professional, when recording the griots. Music comes unplanned and unorganised, just as everything else in Fouta. I rush to pull out the recorder and the camera as the boys wake me from my nap with music and as always I feel the least prepared. The songs, of course, live in their memories rather than written on paper, but after awhile I manage to wrap my head around what is happening. Following brothers Moussa & Hamet for the past year I have been observing their sounds being created on the spot, birthing from the quiet moments shading from the harsh Fouta sun. Melodies circulating over and over again through guitar and houddu strings until one day they will take a complete shape. What fascinates and attracts me most in life now, are people who have a mission and a calling in life bigger than any other small daily things we usually worry ourselves with. The kind of life where the mission is the only path a person cares about. Hamet and Moussa are griots by birth, there is nothing more and else they wish to do. They did not go to school, did not learn to read or write or learn any other ‘skills’. I know I am witnessing something that exists still just about, but will soon be vanished. This life, this sort of passionate anarchism. Besides, no other skills are needed for Moussa and Hamet, I can see well, as we’re spending a week together bouncing from a village to village entertaining the locals for money. We are being fed, we have a blanket under the stars to rest at night and most importantly we are happy. I am tempted to never return to reality as the boys keep asking me to stay one more day each day. I do return home after 10 days, still unsure why and whether that was a right thing to do, what would it have been like if I stayed. But I guess I’m scared that I will have too much of a good thing. Group ‘Yontii Poulaagu’ , Fouta-Toro. Filmed & recorded by Adelina Sasnauskaite (insta @blind.in.1.eye)