»DEMBAD[O]U BAND
Two former members of the Super Juffureh Band of Sukuta, namely Lamin Tul Berro Cham and Amadou Taylor Drammeh came together to form the currently popular Dembad[o]u Band of Sukuta.
Band members: Lamin Tul Bero Cham – lead vocal // Ma Awa Suso – vocal // Amadou (Taylor) – keyboard / vocal // Lamin Drammeh – drums // Demba Manneh – (Kawlas) lead-guitar // Musa Nying – bass // Koro Touray – percussions // Ansunding Keita – (Ndings) percussions / dancer // Adama Joof – talking drum (Tama) // Manka Susso – rythm guitar // Alieu Jallow – (bongo) üercussions // Femi Cham – promoter // Mass Cham + Ousman – technician //
Live recordings – Alliance Franco, Serrekunda (June 2008)
Thanks to the Dembadou Blog dembadou.wordpress.com from 2009, that is still worth reading for the interested:
The Dembadou Band 2009‘s musical recording compact disc »Badingya« has been produced and is distributed by Reggae Manding, http://www.reggaemanding.de. Consult the Bandcamp page for this album to listen and to purchase it. Buying this musical album you support the original artists and their families: all earned money will be transferred there, to The Gambia.
Track listing: 1) Badingya, 2) Kaira, 3) Musa Suso, 4) Kano, 5) Gambia Musulo, 6) Kelepha, 7) Gaa (Tinna Fall), 8) Duniya Musulo, 9) Kelepha 2. – That is: BADINGYA.
Feel free as well and obliged, to report illegal distributors of the artists’ intellectual and artistic properties: »All rights reserved« is a copyright formality indicating that the copyright holder reserves, or holds for its own use, all the rights provided by copyright law.
Postscriptum: An Individual Cover Design and four-page Booklet can be created on request!
On the annual cultural Dembadou Festival at Sukuta in The Gambia
(The before Internet website on the annual cultural festival, http://www.dembadoufestival.com, is not longer maintained, but can be read and viewed by help of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – the festival itself is still alive.)
Juffureh Band of Sukuta in The Gambia (official homepage) 