Twenty-three years ago, a couple of UK musicians, Martin Cradick and his partner Su Hart, did something no-one else had done. They went into the forests of Cameroon in Central Africa, to meet, live ...

In the city, sonic survival requires screening out most of the noises-sirens, traffic, barking dogs, boomboxes, drills, blowers, mowers-that accompany our lives. But in the dense rainforests of ...

From the back-of-beyond, to Tyneside via the rainforests of Africa; the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon have formed their own band Orchestre Baka Gbine. Whilst the Baka people entertain and produce fabulous ...

Back in 1992, before the term "world music" was prevalently used, British guitarist Martin Cradick and his wife, vocalist Su Hart, went on an expedition into the Cameroon jungle to learn about the ...

Baka Beyond have been making world music since before the term was common parlance, fusing African rhythm with Celtic harmony. Twenty-one years on they have been touring the UK following the release ...

Before we get into the new album by the world-beat collective, Baka Beyond, let's get something straight about the name. In Japan, "baka" may be what you call your boss behind his back, but this ...

The image of pygmies as diminutive tribespeople in grass skirts is based on an uninformed exotic imagination. At the performance the Baka pygmy tribe gave in London, and on their recent sell-out tour ...

A group of Baka Pygmies has left its rainforest home and is preparing to play a series of gigs in Bristol and around the UK with the local band Baka Beyond. Baka Beyond formed 14 years ago when Martin ...

An African-Celtic crossover band inspired by the music of a pygmy community in West Africa has celebrated the construction of a special "music house" with their latest album. The Baka pygmies of ...

Baka Beyond are annoyingly difficult to dislike. They are an infuriatingly jovial multi-racial band with members from Britain, France and across West Africa, who perform wearing fixed grins, and would ...