PHOTO: Elderly Baka woman during an initiation song (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).
SOUNDSCAPE: Aka vocal polyphony (Aka Pygmies of the Central African Republic)
"The women's songs bring minutes of pure unearthly music, their voices cut through the air like shards of crystal, they pierce through your skin to the bone."Luis Devin,
The Forest Has You(La foresta ti ha - Castelvecchi/LIT Edizioni)
