Les Maitres-Tambours du Burundi | id

"Burundi" refers to: 1. The indigenous people of Burundi, who have been featured on albums such as "Burundi: Music From the Heart of Africa" (Nonesuch), "Burundi: Musiques Traditionelles" (Ocora), and "Music from Burundi " (Albatros). 2. A finnish post-punk band, active in the 1980's. .

In 1967 Sevac Ekian recorded a ceremony of Ingoma Tribe in the East African State Burundi. Back home he developed the idea to arrange a "musical marriage"(mariage musical). Therefore he asked the producer Mike Steiphenson to create a fitting tune to those absorbing drums he brought. Steiphenson produced a psychedelic harmony consisting of e-guitar and piano and inserted it in Ekian's recording. In 1971 the track was published under the pseudonym Burundi Black. On Side A there is "Part 1", the drum-solo version, on Side B ("Part 2") the version by Steiphenson. The single went top 40 in the UK....