Traditional :<\/strong> niilaa duwaa \u2013 Traditional \/ Richard Ndione :<\/strong> se waayee \u2013 Traditional :<\/strong> Diouloulenma \u2013 Traditional \/ Richard Ndione :<\/strong> y\u00ebng\u00fa l\u00e9\u00e9n \u2013 Richard Ndione :<\/strong> niilaa ng\u00faraa – heetaa – Mariama – s\u00ebr\u00ed\u00f1 tuba – leelaye – hul – kul saafi (Arr. by Alexandre Mbaye Ndione).<\/p>\n Rich’Art Ndione et Le Saawal : Richard \u00ab Khadim \u00bb Ndione<\/strong> (voix, guitare) – Brigitte Ndione & Ami \u00ab Djimbi \u00bb Ndione<\/strong> (ch\u0153urs) – Mame Fran\u00e7oise \u00ab Ngoye \u00bb Ndione<\/strong> (kan-ndang).<\/p>\n L\u2019ensemble Rakhane Mbissane : Abdoulaye Faye<\/strong> (thiole) – Amadou Faye<\/strong> (mbal) – Samba Faye<\/strong> (tal-mbat) – Cheikh Ahmadou Faye<\/strong> (tougouni) *Sauf pistes 1 & 2 – Assane Faye<\/strong> (nder) *Sauf pistes 1 & 2<\/p>\n Avec la participation de *Pistes 7 \u00e0 11 : Anthony Gr\u00e9goire<\/strong> (guitare solo) – Serge Tine<\/strong> (claviers) – Ndiass\u00e9 Faye<\/strong> (batterie)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Sereer-noon are found in Senegal, located in Thi\u00e8s and in about thirty surrounding villages.<\/p>\n Being indigenous to Thi\u00e8s, nicknamed \u201cThe City of the Rail\u201d (evidenced by the presence of the train on track 6), located about 70 kilometers east of the capital, Dakar, the Noons are one of the five subgroups of the Northwestern Sereer family \u2013 the Ndoute, Safene, Noon, Laalaa, Diobass \u2013 also called cangin following the discovery of the peculiarity of their languages in the 1960s by the linguist Walter J. Pichl. They also constitute the core of this group carrying the identity called Saafi, the very one that would constitute, with the Sereer of Sine-Saloum, in the south of the country, the large family of the Sereer, an ethnic group reputed to be present only in Senegal, although today\u2019s migratory phenomena are increasingly changing the situation.<\/p>\n Anyhow, there are so few Noons (about ten thousand speakers or so in recent years) that their culture tends to disappear, especially facing the well-known Wolofization phenomenon.<\/p>\n What characterizes the Noons, culturally, is undoubtedly their mystical powers related to geomancy, including the retention of rains, and the particular competence of some of them to practice anthropophagy \u2013 here, the dispossession of someone\u2019s soul to imprison it in a sacred tree. But there is also the intimate relationship that this community has been able to weave with the ronier palm tree (Borassus aethiopum), which remains the Noon\u2019s faithful everyday companion.<\/p>\n Finally \u2013 and above all \u2013 there is the mbilim both a celebration, an event, and a musical genre. It is a practice where music and dance are above all a mode of sharing and communication.<\/p>\nThe Sereer noon : who are they?<\/h4>\n