Louis Sarno

About the artist

Louis Sarno (* 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is a US-American music researcher of the Baka Pygmy peoples in Central Africa.

Top songs

  1. Women Gathering Mushrooms
  2. Wedding Song
  3. Yeyi-Greeting
  4. Walking Song
  5. Benediction On A Settlement
  6. Women Off To Gather Payu
  7. Mondume With Percussion
  8. Funeral Song
  9. Boyobi (Part Two)
  10. Boyobi (Part Three)
Show all 81 songs
  1. Boyobi (Part Four)
  2. Yeyi-Farewell
  3. Boyobi, part 2
  4. Boyobi, part 3
  5. Boyobi, part 4
  6. Boyobi At Spear-Hunting Camp (Part One)
  7. Women SIng in the Forest (exc)
  8. Flute In Forest
  9. Net Hunt
  10. Boyobi at spear-hunting camp, part 1
  11. Geedal in the forest with male voices (Republic of Congo)
  12. Balonyona playing the geedal (bow harp) (Central African Republic)
  13. Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest (Central African Republic)
  14. Bayaka Nigh Insects
  15. Afternoon beneath a palm shelter (Central African Republic)
  16. Women Sing In The Forest
  17. Tree Drumming
  18. Bobé Spirits Calling
  19. Bayaka Night Insects
  20. Hindewhu
  21. The Flutes We Hear No More
  22. Earth Bow
  23. Water Drumming
  24. Wondo
  25. Geedal
  26. Lingboku Celebration
  27. 4 Voiced Song
  28. Moukouté’s Lament
  29. Mondumé With Percussion
  30. Side B
  31. Likimbi forest camp late at night (Central African Republic)
  32. Metimbo playing the bubulu (pot bow) (Central African Republic)
  33. Song Of Joy After The Hunt
  34. Song With Sanza Accompaniment
  35. Music From The Zoboke Ritual
  36. Moola - Two Aka Girls
  37. 5 Voiced Song
  38. Chant For The Returning From The Hunt
  39. Mo Boma (Lullaby)
  40. Music To Entertain
  41. Mbombokwe
  42. Cradle
  43. Song About A Swarm Of Bees
  44. The Fruit Eater
  45. Pygmies From Gabun
  46. Ngbolu (Dance)
  47. Ya Ya
  48. 3-Voiced Song
  49. Boyobi at Spear‐Hunting Camp, Part 1
  50. Louis Sarno Speaks
  51. Side A
  52. Bayaka Fieldrecordings -1997
  53. Evening Polyphony
  54. Arabesque for likembe and voices
  55. Ballad of Mambasa
  56. Daytime Polyphony
  57. Likembe Trio
  58. Boyobi At Spear-Hunting Camp (
  59. SO (Men's death benediction ceremony for men)
  60. Ngbindi (Earth-bow)
  61. Mbyo (Gongeü plays notched flute)
  62. Limboku (Women's benediction ceremony after death of women or before marriage)
  63. Mondume (Harp-zither, played by Bokau)
  64. Gbagba (Children's musical game w_ kids & teenagers)
  65. Gano (Sung fable, Makuti narrates w_ male chorus during pause in SO ceremony)
  66. Geedal (Bow-harp w_ Master Balonyona)
  67. Ejengi (Boy's big spirit initiation ceremony into adulthood)
  68. Mbyo (Contreboeuf plays notched flute)
  69. Mondume (Harp-zither played by Mobila)
  70. song from the forest
  71. Elanda 1

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