#balafon

The balafon is a West African idiophone similar to the xylophone. The main use of the balafon was to play music for kings and ceremonies instead of everyday life. The balafon has 21 wooden keys with gourds as a resonator. The keys are tied with cord to the instrument's bamboo frame. To play the balafon the player strikes the keys with wooden padded mallets.

Contours - Balafon Sketches - balafon, gamelan, & electronics (and if you have inferred Fourth World from that, you are right)

The first self-release from Contours. Contours is the project of musician, producer and DJ Tom Burford. Based in Manchester, Contours’ sound explores the spaces, rhythms and textures that sit between House, Jazz, broken-beat, Hip Hop and percussive obscurities.

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“How pathetic, rocked to the slump of giving up, Captain? Here, I believed I would have an actual challenge. Again you prove me  accurately correct, you cannot do anything solely by yourself... Though you misinformed me the threat you were fighting... These foul-deviants are out of your league. Besides if any get to see you fall, It better be by my hands. Not cooped up in a dimension as blank and forgotten as here.”  A pure white-suited Keeper swarming in intense aetherial aura. A rifted-portal started to wane shut. The voidal brotherly marked with a magical controlling sigil on his forehead took youngster charge at the new mage who had arrived. In one fail swooped a barrage of ice fluttered forward, what wasn’t known as the shards were homing as the demon dodged with ease and believed to dodge again another came from aerial above as his brother shouted, “Watch out!” Connecting directly in the forehead both brothers laughed over it though pretending they were fearful and believing again another mortal attempting to outmatch and wound them. They had no idea they were dealing with no-ordinarily mage as evidence should have been how he achieved getting too their plane on his own merit.

The younger brother fell excruciating pain causing him to screech and writhe in mid-air as a red lightning formed around a blood gem he tore off his tuxedo-jacket and revealed several puncture syringe holes to his own veins. “You’re my servant now.” He masked the blood-gem stone in his own ice in the most center and over layered it in calculations. This was no ordinary blood-gem stone as it was the blood of the Mhachi which were said to use to command voidsents in all this preparation and time, Shiro had been building up and conjuring up one for this exact moment. He received information of the hierarchy of the Voidsent in the question from being informed in advance without Kuro’s knowledge. His intellect was massive and vast in this expertise for these two were his sins out in the open, for he was the reasoning of why they were unlocked and left to roam when he ventured to the Void for ten-years worth in the dimensional-time to acquire power that was hungered to best an Hidden Empire that held him stuck to the game of piracy. “These two will serve to be my atonement. Now then...” Lifting up his white-gloved hand and chanting in the Mhachi tongue a command. He’d enforce his brother to fight his older one to bide them time. As it activated and played out as they attempted mental resistance but the flux and vast quantity of blood strung an enforced hold. He looked at the Captain trying to stagger back to stand. Then the nobleman drew out his rapier strangely and shockingly stabbed in the back of the shoulder with a puncture stab with his rapier.  Which - the pirate opened his eyes alarmingly in confusion and back stabbed-betrayal?!?! Was this but another ploy by the mastermind? A cog to his ever expansive and spinning mind of crafted excellence?

Trio Da Kali live on KEXP