Mbuti Pygmies | pt

The album "Heart of the Forest" was recorded in 1992 by Martin cradick of Baka Beyond deep in the Cameroonian rainforest. Martin Cradick left guitars with the Baka group he stayed with and after 10 years these same Baka Pygmies formed their own group Baka Gbiné. On subsequent visits Martin encouraged and recorded their songs, eventually setting up a temporary multi-track studio in the forest where he recorded the album "Gati Bongo". baka Gbiné have since toured with Baka Beyond in Europe and a live album of this tour, Baka Live, is now available from http://www.baka.co.uk .

Keeping in mind that we are talking about a band with a 30+ year history, 17 Pygmies are a band that has admittedly undertaken many personnel changes (the only original member is Jackson Del Rey) and diverged in any number of musical directions finally decided to "play it straight" or at least "play it as straight" as such a band can. In 2008 Jackson put together the now referred to as the "Celestina" era of the band featuring core members Meg Maryatt on vocals, Jeff Brenneman on guitar and Dirk Doucette on drums to undertake an ambitious 331/3 song 3...