COUNTRY: Jamaica [wpspoiler name=”Binghi festival in 1994″ open=”true” style=”aatw-video” ][/wpspoiler]
make Thunder a subgenre of Nyabinghi drum
BURRA/NYABINGHI: Another ancestor of reggae, Nyabinghi drumming is religious Rastafarian music that adherents perform in communal drumming circles while chanting Rastafarian prayers.
Every Nyabinghi drumming circle features several distinct drums:
— the Thunder: the bottom, base drum of the ensemble
— the Funde: a middle-pitched drum that keeps “the
heartbeat” of the rhythm
— the Repeater: the highest-pitched drum,
it improvises rhythms and is believed to carry the spirit of the
session
— the Shaka: the shekere, which accents and
provides character to the rhythms
A Nyabinghi drumming session | “Binghi Celebration,” Jamaica 1994
