Baka Beyond

Baka Beyond
Beyond The Forest

Adrian Phillips has a listen to not one but two new releases by Baka Beyond and aserts that western artists like Peter Gabriel, One Giant Leap and Simon ‘Afro-Celt’ Emerson have often used original field recordings as the basis for many a finished track, but never have they released them in their own right - cue a flood of emails to the contrary.

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Baka Beyond - New Release and Tour Dates

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News in from March Hare Music. If you have never heard Baka Beyond before prepare for something of unique and unusual beauty; if you know Baka Beyond you will no doubt agree that 'Beyond The Forest' is their best work yet. The haunting, mystical vocals on the album were recorded on a solar-powered 8-track machine in the middle of the Cameroon rainforest, inhabited by the Baka Pygmies, an ethnic group of hunter-gatherers, for thousands of years. Buy - Baka Beyond the Forest

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Baka Beyond release Marriage of West with East plus facebook update

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News in from Baka Beyond to let us know they have released Marriage of West with East ( see GondwanaSound playlist 8th April ) as an exclusive i-tunes single.

Baka Beyond have a facebook page and say, "If you use Facebook please support us by becoming a fan".

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15th May 2009:
Juju Club presents Baka Beyond at Sheffield's Redroom

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Sheffield's famous JuJu Club is back with Baka Beyond, one of the best known global music bands and the first band to put together African and Celtic music with amazing results. Band members hail from Brittany, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Britain.

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