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The instruments used in the fascinating music style known as zenli (which I studied most while there), and is quite popular in Agbomey. The two drums, kpesiga (the taller) and kpesivi (the smaller), the 3 different sized gon, the asa rattles and of course, the bass pot drum known as zen. The rhythmic play of this music is quite unlike anything I have ever heard. Check the video in the Benin thumbnail page for an example by this very group, led by my teacher Joel Zodji.

Agbomey, Benin, March 2010

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