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About Music of the Central African Pygmies
This collection, which calls attention to a people currently engaged in a battle against extinction, preserves forever the rarely heard and surprisingly accessible rhythms of the songs of the Ba-Benjelle Pygmies. For the Pygmies of the Ituri rainforest in Central Africa, music is as much a part of their lives as waking, eating and breathing; their vocal-based music resonating in exquisite harmony with the environment. Through the eyes and ears of three extraordinary men
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Top Tracks
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Men's Elephant-Hunting Song
2
Girl's Echo Song
3
Honey-Gathering Song
4
Peipa (Girl's Initiation)
5
Women's Wedding Song
6
Meli-e
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Net-Hunting Song
8
Ikobi (version 2)
9
Sanza (plucked idiophone, or "thumb piano")
10
Bow-Harp and Vocal
11
Birth Celebration
12
Makuse (Music to bring luck to a hunting camp)
13
Mangissa
14
Lote (notched flute)
15
Ikobi (Gathering Song - Version 1)
16
Ones-string violin
17
Ejengi Ceremony
18
Geedal, preformed by Mamadu
19
One-string Violin
20
Geedal
21
girls' echo song
22
Sanza (Plucked Idiophone, Or 'Thumb Piano')
23
Méli-é
24
makusé (music to bring luck to a hunting camp)
25
Ikobi (Gathering Song-Version 1)
26
Men's Elephant - Hunting Song
27
Sanza (plucked idiophone, or thumb piano)
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