Music of the Bibayak Pygmies

Gabon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 3, 1996)
• Label: Ocora France
• ASIN: B000003IDH
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,768,513 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #21 in Music > World Music > Africa > Gabon

Track Listings

1. Two Sequences of the Mébasi Vocal Game

2. Yodel Studies

3. Polyphonic Sequences

4. Polyphonic Sequences Mixed Chorus [Continuation]

5. Voice and Sanza

6. Dialogues With the Spirits

7. Fragment of a Mvet Epic Chant

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pygmies are giants, January 3, 2006

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jive rhapsodist (NYC, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music of the Bibayak Pygmies (Audio CD)

Get to that! The invention, the grasp of large-scale form, the inevitability of the transitions,the sense of tension and release...no wonder masters like Ligeti have been fascinated with this music. And this is one of the great masterpieces - I will say of music in general. Hyperbole? Not for me. This ain't no cultural artifact - no piece of "ethnomusicology". This is great music, pure and (not so) simple!