Baka Forest People

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.

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 User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..