The Music Of The Bayaka: Volume II
Recordist/Credit: Louis Sarno
Author of 'BAYAKA: THE EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC OF THE BABENZELE PYGMIES'
Since
1984, Louis Sarno, an American born and raised in New Jersey, has lived with and
recorded the music of the Bayaka and their surrounding habitats in the remote
areas of the Central African Republic. During this period, Sarno reflects, I
have grown familiar not only with the Bayaka, but also with the forest in which
they live. Their music seems nothing less than a creation of the rain forest
itself, its ultimate form of self-expression. Remove the voices of the Bayaka
from this paradise of natural soundscapes, and you remove its soul.
Occasionally the sounds of the forest biophony from which the
Bayaka derive their music, are punctuated with the voices of Forest Elephants
and the chest-beats of Lowland Gorillas, other inhabitants of this wild and
magical location.
1. SO Men's ceremony. The benediction sung at the
death of one of the men.
2. NGBINDI Earth-bow performer and tune.
3. NBYO Gong plays notched flute.
4. MONDUME Harp-zither tune
played by Bokau.
5. LIMBOKU Typically a women's benediction ceremony
performed before a marriage or after a death. It's about and by women.
6. GBAGBA A children's game sung by young children and teenagers.
7. GANO Sung fable, Makuti narrates joined by a male chorus during pause
in SO ceremony.
8. GEEDAL Bow-harp performed by Master Balonyona.
9. EJENGI Boy's big spirit initiation ceremony into adulthood.
10. MBYO Contreboeuf plays notched flute.
11. MONDUME
Harp-zither played by Mobila.
THE MUSIC OF THE BAYAKA Volume II
©2007 Wild Sanctuary. All rights reserved.
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