Batà promo - Federica Loredan & Daouda Diabate

video diretto da Lorenzo Ameri BATA’ - From a traditional Yoruba pataki: one day, a woman named Batà went to the river in order to do some rites to find a husband. While she was doing her rituals, Shango - the god of virility, thunder and fire - came to her. After their union, he decides to transform her into a musical instrument, the percussion, in order to be able to always bring her with him; thus originated the batà triadic percussion called iyà-itotele-ocòncolo (meaning, therefore, mother-father-child