Comments on: Water drums and rainforest music.

Water drums and rainforest music.

nickyskye — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:54:05 -0800

Afro-Celtic music inspired by the Baka, pygmies living in the Central African rainforest of Cameroon. Rivers running through the rainforest are one of the alluring Bakas' favorite instruments, the water drum. Highly inventive and constantly changing, the vocal polyphony and the polyrhythmic sounds of hands and drums are prodigious achievements which astonish modern composers. There are various albums.

By: konolia

konolia — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:31:10 -0800

Straight to my bookmarks. Thanks!

By: saladin

saladin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:51:34 -0800

Wow, good stuff, thanks!

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:41:07 -0800

Here I thought you were talking about the always interesting Afro Celt Sound System

By: lazymonster

lazymonster — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:47:27 -0800

a few of the bandmembers made an appearance on the 3rd st. promenade/santa monica in front of Hear Music - maybe 8 or 9 years back. I think I may have been the only person there that didn't realize they weren't homeless street performers. now they didn't have any pygmies with them, but that may have reinforced the whole homeless street performer look anyway. my Baka Beyond cd's were among the very few that made the cut when I recently weeded out my music collection from that time period.

By: vers

vers — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:53:54 -0800

I want to give thanks for how very sweet this is!

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:19:12 -0800

This looks really interesting, thanks, nickyskye. I too am a fan of Afro-Celt Sound System, but always assumed they were just melging two genres together because of the different musical backgrounds of their members.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:28:12 -0800

they're just splashing.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:42:14 -0800

Afro-Celt Sound System is different than the Baka Beyond albums on the Baka Radio I posted as the first link. I had no idea there was a band namedAfro-Celt or I would have labelled my FPP differently. Learning curve. :) Apparently there are a number of afro-celtic groups from different countries who have made world fusion music. I especially like the rhythmic, percussive splashing/water drum of the Baka.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:43:04 -0800

Cool stuff, thanks for the links. MP3.com Bio and album reviews.

By: pwedza

pwedza — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:06:26 -0800

really great stuff

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:00:09 -0800

superb post, thank you nickskye.