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Orchestre Baka Gbin�

From: Africa > Cameroon

Genres: Pygmy Music, Traditional, Tune Your World

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Baka Gbiné is a group of musicians from Cameroon.

Gati Bongo is the amazing and compelling debut album by Baka Gbiné, recorded live in the rainforest of Cameroon in 2004 and 2005. It comes as the result of regular visits to the Baka's homeland by British members of Afro-Celtic band Baka Beyond.

Martin Cradick and Su Hart of Baka Beyond have regularly stayed with the Baka in Africa, taking and donating a number of guitars as part of a 15 year collaboration. Using these guitars alongside traditional instruments made in the forest, the Baka Pygmies have created their own band, Baka Gbine - together with a distinct and irresistible musical style.

The album was recorded using a solar-powered mobile studio set up under a giant tree deep in the forest, and completed in England at Martin Cradick's studio in Bath. Two songs from the album, title track 'Gati Bongo' and 'Mosumana Collé', were released in January 2006.

Music is an integral part of life for the members of Baka Gbiné and their community. Song and rhythm are essential to their lives for many reasons, including the sheer fun they bring. The Gati Bongo album captures this sense of fun perfectly, bringing this joyous, spiritual and vibrant music to an international audience.

The album is a taster of what to expect when Baka Gbiné tour the UK with Baka Beyond, at the end of April. Baka Gbine have never performed outside of Cameroon, so the UK tour is a rare opportunity to catch this incredible band. The Baka Pygmies are experts at raising what the Irish would call the 'craic' and what they call the 'Spirit of the Forest', so seeing them perform live promises to be an unforgettable experience.

Giving back to the Baka
Royalties earned by Baka Gbiné are channelled back to the Baka musicians and their communities through the UK based charity Global Music Exchange. This money has already enabled them to win land rights and recognition as Cameroonian citizens, as well as funding the building of a medical centre and a beautiful 'music house'. These positive steps help protect the Baka's forest environment and unique hunter-gatherer way of life.
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Gati Bongo

Gati Bongo is the amazing and compelling debut album by Baka Gbiné, recorded live in the rainforest of Cameroon in 2004 and 2005. It comes as the result of regular visits to the Baka's homeland by British members of Afro-Celtic band Baka Beyond.

Martin Cradick and Su Hart of Baka Beyond have regularly stayed with the Baka in Africa, taking and donating a number of guitars as part of a 15 year collaboration. Using these guitars alongside traditional instruments made in the forest, the Baka Pygmies have created their own band, Baka Gbine - together with a distinct and irresistible musical style.

The album was recorded using a solar-powered mobile studio set up under a giant tree deep in the forest, and completed in England at Martin Cradick's studio in Bath. Two songs from the album, title track 'Gati Bongo' and 'Mosumana Collé', were released on iTunes in January 2006.

Music is an integral part of life for the members of Baka Gbiné and their community. Song and rhythm are essential to their lives for many reasons, including the sheer fun they bring. The Gati Bongo album captures this sense of fun perfectly, bringing this joyous, spiritual and vibrant music to an international audience.

The album is a taster of what to expect when Baka Gbiné tour the UK with Baka Beyond, at the end of April. Baka Gbine have never performed outside of Cameroon, so the UK tour is a rare opportunity to catch this incredible band. The Baka Pygmies are experts at raising what the Irish would call the 'craic' and what they call the 'Spirit of the Forest', so seeing them perform live promises to be an unforgettable experience.

Giving back to the Baka
Royalties earned by Baka Gbiné are channelled back to the Baka musicians and their communities through the UK based charity Global Music Exchange. This money has already enabled them to win land rights and recognition as Cameroonian citizens, as well as funding the building of a medical centre and a beautiful 'music house'. These positive steps help protect the Baka's forest environment and unique hunter-gatherer way of life.
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	Title	Length
	Gati Bongo	4:00

	Nawa	4:57

	Mosumana Coll�	7:04

	Boulez Boulez	6:36

	Bosenga	3:46

	Sakwe	7:17

	H�l�ne	4:29

	Mbunja's Rap	7:32

	Les Peuples de La For�t	5:27

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Baka Live

Baka Live is a special collaboration between Baka Beyond and Baka Gbine. In April and May 2006, seven Baka Pygmy musicians made a historic visit to UK to tour with Baka Beyond.For most of them, it was their first journey outside their rainforest home, and for all of them their first trip outside Africa. Their remarkable performances were captured on digital multitrack and this is the recording of...
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	Title	Length
	Bambole	3:06

	Sad Among Strangers	5:11

	Kobo	5:46

	Soiridh Leis	3:42

	Rendezvous	6:15

	Bunaka	7:26

	Bokissa	8:52

	Boulez Boulez	5:25

	Helene	3:40

	Mosumana Colle	8:16

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Customer Reviews

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Gati Bongo - so good!
However you feel - up, down, indifferent - this album is guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step. Recorded in the African Rainforest on a laptop, but sounding like its recorded in a top studio, and I hear that the Baka get all their royalties!

Get up!
Listen you don't have to understand a word! But truth is if you're still sitting while listening to Gati Bongo, something must be terribly wrong. Are you feeling down? Tired? Just plained bummed? Then wake up to this song.