"Martin Cradick weaves his magic spell again with the Baka music of the cameroon rainforest.....
....it swings like crazy and deserves to be top of the World charts" - Joe Boyd

Yelli is still sung to enchant animals by Pygmy women in the rainforests of Africa. This is singing for survival, developed through thousands of years of communicating in song with their forest world.

This is a collection of modern arrangements of ancient songs, highly listenable yet other worldly. By unravelling the interlocking vocal lines and replacing them with bass and guitar the roots of Reggae are revealed

Field recordings of the yelli are available on the sister album Baka in the Forest

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