Published by the Dapper Museum in Paris during the 1991 Pygmées? exhibition, this CD gathers polyphonic songs that are the main musical expression from these people. The complexity and multiplicity of this music, the numerous interpreters, loops and improvisations, the repetitive and subtle patterns evolving in a seemingly unicity, still is a source of obvious influence for contemporary composers such as Steve Reich, Michael Nyman or David Moss, as well as for many young obsessed loop-makers…
Kango, Efe, Asua
Fonti Musicali - FMD 190
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO > Pygmies from High Zaire