Ilú

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Batuque drums: Ilús, which are played as hand drums (back) and Xequerês .
An ensemble plays Ilús in the Shango cult in Pernambuco .

Ilús are hand drums in Brazilian music that are used in the music of the Afro-Brazilian religion . In particular, they are played in the Batuque in southern Brazil (especially Rio Grande do Sul ) and in the Xangô cults in the northeast. It occurs in three different pitches and has the same functions as the atabaques in Candomblé .

In contrast to the barrel-shaped atabaques, ilús belong to the cylindrical tubular drums .