Orchéstre Baka Gbiné playing Kopolo - album version

Empower Baka Voices: Provide Vital ID Cards https://givi.ng/0o0f For over 30 years, we’ve worked alongside the Baka community in Cameroon. Now, they face an invisible barrier: the lack of a valid national ID card. Regional conflict has made it impossible to renew IDs locally. The only office is 200km away—an impossible journey without money or papers. As a result, every ID in the Gbiné community has expired. What does this mean? Baka individuals are routinely stopped, harassed, and fined at police checkpoints. They can’t travel for fair work, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. Most critically, our Forest Voices Tours—which use music and film to unite Baka communities and amplify their voices—can no longer run. Without ID, they cannot travel legally. These tours are more than performances. They’re a platform for dialogue, cultural preservation, and empowerment. You can be part of the solution. Just £40 funds one 10-year ID card, restoring: ✅ Legal protection and dignity ✅ Freedom to travel and work ✅ The ability to restart the Forest Voices Tours Our Goal: Raise £1,600 to secure IDs for 40 Baka musicians and community leaders—and restart the tours that give them a voice. 🔗 Donate here: https://givi.ng/0o0f TotalGiving takes no commission—every penny goes directly to this urgent cause. - - - - VIDEO DESCRIPTION Recording album, "Kopolo" in the rainforest near Cameroon/Congo border. If you love this amazing music and you are able, help the musicians and buy it! at https://baka.gbine.com (where you can also listen to their music) They are amongst the poorest people on the planet and WILL get their money if you do. help the Baka at https://globalmusicexchange.org Mastered mix from the new album, Kopolo. Out Now! The Baka musicians from Gbiné have come a long way since the release of their last album Gati Bongo. Whereas none of them had ever performed outside their forest home before Gati Bongo was recorded, since it's release they have toured in UK, Belgium and Holland as well as around Cameroon and Congo. They have formed a tight rhythm section which melds with their polyphonic vocal harmonies to create their own unique style as can be heard on the new recording. Although there is now keen competition at Gbiné to play in the band, the rhythm section has become a fixed line-up of Sangowé Elvis on drum kit, Ndia Arbitre on percussion, Barma Jean-Marie on bass and Ndeké Norbert on rhythm guitar. Pelembir Dieudonné is still the most prolific of the song-writers and dynamic of the performers, but others are treading on his heels including his son Freddie (who can be seen singing on the video of "Ewoundo". Mbeh Prosper again provides most of the lead guitar with a bit of help here and there from Baka Beyond's Martin Cradick, who also recorded it all on location deep in the rainforest near the Cameroon-Congo border and mixed and produced it at The Vortex in UK. Although Baka Gbiné have been developing their performance of traditional music and dance, this album is another collection of contemporary guitar based songs guaranteed to get your body moving and your spirits rising. Gati Bongo has been in the iTunes World charts since its release back in 2006. It's sales have helped finance projects set up with the Baka at Gbiné and Global Music Exchange (https://globalmusicexchange.org) which have really made a difference to the lives and social standing of the Baka. Every time Martin returns to Cameroon to continue work with the Baka he is asked when the next album will be ready. Well here's one track from it! More at https://gbine.com