Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies and Sounds of Their Forest Home [Audio CD]

Louis Sarno (Author), Stephen Clabattoni (Editor), Yann Lussiez (Photographer), Stain (Author), Jeffrey Charno (Producer)

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Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the BaBenzele Pygmies is a beautifully-designed one hour long CD/photobook detailing the lives and music of the BaBenzele Pygmies of the central African forest. Bayaka details riveting music through Sarno's writing and photographs, uncovering a hardworking, resourceful, playful and musical culture. Chapters on how instruments are made (vines, hollowed-out longs, skins of animals caught in net hunts), hunting and gathering, extensive track notes and more bring the listener close to these remote forest dwellers. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Ellipsis Arts; Book & CD edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559613130
• ISBN-13: 978-1559613132
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,033,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #6 in Books > History > Africa > Central African Republic

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Beautiful, February 9, 2004

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P. Rodriguez (Weehawken, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies and Sounds of Their Forest Home (Audio CD)

The field recordings on the included cd are breathtakingly magnifiscent. The voices emerging through a sea of rainforest wildlife and echoing through the trees are mesmerizing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Uplifting, July 5, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies and Sounds of Their Forest Home (Audio CD)

This extraordinary package comprises an 88-page book rich in color photographs and explanatory narrative along with a CD based on recordings made in the wild by Louis Sarno and mixed by electronic music pioneer Bernie Krause, who contributed an essay on the relationship between natural ambient sounds and musical creation. The net result is a remarkable CD that never sounds like a novelty, but always sounds musically rewarding and spiritually uplifting.