Congo / Femmes Pygmees De La S

Devoted to female repertoires of the Pygmies of northern Congo, this CD focuses on yeli - that most distinctive chant of Pygmy women with the meandering counterpoint of its polyphony, the sophisticated interlacing of its sounds and motifs and its complex yodelling technique. For Pygmy communities music has a vital role: 'Normally everything is fine with us. It's only when we go to sleep at night that something can go wrong, because if we're asleep, there's nothing we can do to prevent it.So when something grave occurs, when someone fall sick, when the hunt is bad, or when death strikes, it must be that the forest herself is asleep and unable to watch over her children.We have to wake her up. And we do this with singing.'(Moke, Mbuti pygmies, 1961)

Number of Discs: 1

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