Ivory Coast: Dan Masks

While Africa masks are readily identified, their voices - although essential - are much less well-known: they speak and sing. The most modets masks, intended for entertainment, as well as the most powerful ones with strong supernatura power, use music just as expressively.

Tracklisting:
1. Gêêgõ (Masque mâle)
2. Gêêgblẽ (Masque long)
3. Gêêkezï (Masque méchant)
4. Gêênoonœ (Masque jeune fille)
5. Glukœglø (Masque qui fait la guerre)
6. Kagêê (Masque aux bâtons fourchus)
7. Wêpœkœgêê (Masque qui fait la comédie)
8. Giatã (Musique pour la course)
9. Giã
10. Gêêglu (Masque multiple)
11. Gbinggêê (Masque de nuit)
12. Gêêmaanœ (Masque petit oiseau) / Gêêyibø (Masque qui mange de l'eau) / Pãwõ
13. Gêêwova (Masque à la grosse voix)
14. Kong (Masque de femmes)
15. Wõdongdøgo / Baagadiœ / Geiyômlô
16. Blibana (Masque de femmes)

Recorded 1965 & 1967