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Baka Beyond — Spirit of the Forest
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Larry_Rosenow
(Bend, OR)
Posted: Dec 27, 2012 - 12:13
 
Like it...reminds me of at time in a forest of the great NW with only drums and voices.

zigfreed
Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 19:02
 
Wow, haven't heard this song since like 1995, massive nostalgia trip. Copied from CD using Midisoft's Sound Impression in Windows 3.1.

ziakut
(Right Here)
Posted: Oct 25, 2012 - 18:43
 
{#Bananasplit}

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 10:44
 
Thanks for the PSD option.  Got to hear "Hit the Ground"

JIan
(SW Desert, AZ, USA)
Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 10:41
 
 AndyJ wrote:


Cause some folks like it... You can always go to Pandora or Spoify and listen to -you- music ...altho to me that's like drinking ones own bathwater... RP adds new, old, different and keeps changing... That's why -I- like it... I never know what's coming...and I have spent a few hundred on CDs from the experience... I like new stuff...even if it's just Nu2Mi...
 
I agree with AndyJ here; well said!

dew34
(Wisconsin-quite woodsy)
Posted: Jul 12, 2012 - 21:45
 
Changing to an 8!     {#Think}

arserocket
(S.O.B in an S.U.V)
Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 09:18
 
we be dancing in my trailer - thanks Bill

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: May 26, 2012 - 12:49
 
 kaybee wrote:

Definitely Sting was influenced by African music, like the vocals in this piece.

Normally I don't like yodeling (if this is what it is) but I do like this.

  Correct me if I am wrong here but I am led to believe it is not yodelling but a Native call that is used in the Cameroons, and a comment I read said that this is Hypnotic which is not far from the truth as these Natives use this call/sound when having taking some magical mystic drug that is required to enable them to enter the spirit world and contact their ancestors. I am amazed at the negative comments which is beyond me as this sound/track in fact the whole album couples the Gallic rythmns with the drum beats of Africa intertwining as if they were one, or perhaps they are. I have only ever submitted 2 tens and this is one of them. 


ziakut
(The Windy City)
Posted: May 10, 2012 - 10:47
 
I like the supporting music. It's almost trance inducing. {#Bananajumprope}

AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 08:58
 
 glowworm wrote:
Oh why do we have to have this keep coming around? And why can't we rate songs as zero - its not worth 1!
 

Cause some folks like it... You can always go to Pandora or Spoify and listen to -you- music ...altho to me that's like drinking ones own bathwater... RP adds new, old, different and keeps changing... That's why -I- like it... I never know what's coming...and I have spent a few hundred on CDs from the experience... I like new stuff...even if it's just Nu2Mi...

myersei
(Denver, CO)
Posted: Apr 03, 2012 - 19:53
 
 jmaxi wrote:
Rubbish- I was listening to Deep Forest in the Whirlygig in the earltyu '90s - miles better IMHO

 vit wrote:


Except that this came out 9 years before that song (see Spirit of the Forest Info vs Deep Forest Release Date)

So maybe Deep Forest sounds a little too much like Baka Beyond.
 
 
Actually, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but Jmaxi is right.  I used to listen to this genre a lot...not 100% my choice.  I remember when both came out.  This came out in '93.  Deep Forest's first album, which sounds very much like this, was released in '92 (US release in '93).  The album you mentioned above was Pacifiique, it didn't come out until the end of 2000.

If anyone was copying anyone it was Baka Beyond, copying Deep Forest.

glowworm
(Devon, UK)
Posted: Mar 24, 2012 - 01:42
 
Oh why do we have to have this keep coming around? And why can't we rate songs as zero - its not worth 1!

drewd
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 11:15
 
This is great background music to work by..I like the yodelling.


misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 11:14
 
Theres' on;y one Irish/Gypsy/Appalachain song— it does "Di-dee-di, Dee-diddly-di"... Zzzzz... Oops- dozed off there.... <1>

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 11:09
 
Yodeling in the valley {#Tongue}

rdo
(Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe, Earth, Milkyway, Universe, ?)
Posted: Jan 20, 2012 - 15:36
 
Love it.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 18:14
 
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:
Did Sting rip off the yodel in this song? It sounds familiar.
 
Definitely Sting was influenced by African music, like the vocals in this piece.

Normally I don't like yodeling (if this is what it is) but I do like this.


kcar
Posted: Oct 17, 2011 - 14:10
 
 rtunell wrote:
Time to retire this one.
 
Just a two-week vacation would be fine with me...

james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ)
Posted: Sep 26, 2011 - 15:47
 
 Boz wrote:
My will to live has departed and not in a good way. This is awful just awful.
 
The only thing lacking here is the ability to mute/ignore posters like you so that they disappear and disturb us never again. 


TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 06:42
 
Best listened to in a decommissioned church with an enthusiatic audience.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 06:39
 
 zanref wrote:
Sounds really good after Pink Floyd. Like a girl's warm, gentle and galvanizing kiss after a wonderful and deep sleep...

 

I want whatever it is you ingested!{#Eek}

Boz
Posted: Aug 15, 2011 - 15:32
 
My will to live has departed and not in a good way. This is awful just awful.

actusreus
Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 09:23
 
Yawn

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 09:22
 
 Ahnyer_Keester wrote:
Did Sting rip off the yodel in this song? It sounds familiar.
 
yodels?
There are plenty of Yodels to go 'round.



Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 06:40
 
Did Sting rip off the yodel in this song? It sounds familiar.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 23, 2011 - 17:41
 
 xkolibuul wrote:
Whatever. There's no hiding the fact that "civilization" as defined along Western lines is really, really good at destroying other ways of living in the world. Its been true ever since Europe had the wherewithall to send galleons across the Atlantic, it was true of colonialism, and its true of multinational corporations and consumerism presently. Time to grow up, dude, there's a lot of tragedy out there. Be thankful you apparently don't have to face it in person.


MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA)
Posted: May 07, 2011 - 16:07
 
 rtunell wrote:
Time to retire this one.
 


helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Mar 26, 2011 - 14:38
 
Nice!

zanref
Posted: Mar 10, 2011 - 21:08
 
Sounds really good after Pink Floyd. Like a girl's warm, gentle and galvanizing kiss after a wonderful and deep sleep...


q4Fry
Posted: Feb 18, 2011 - 05:28
 
 lovemydog wrote:

I believe that is clapping and drumming. I don't think African Pygmies have a lot of access to tap shoes.

{#Rolleyes}
 
Apparently they found an electric bass...

Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Feb 07, 2011 - 13:04
 
SPIRIT of the saur forest!

michaelgmitchell
(Belleville, ON)
Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 12:22
 
I am back. Nice recovery from Marley, Bill.

Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: Dec 06, 2010 - 15:07
 
I know it's sort of low-rent fusion, but the essential magic of the forest people in these albums still hits me deep.  Just got back from Brazil, with different but intense, ancient indigenous cultures of its own (which are on the edge of extinction).


cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Nov 15, 2010 - 20:53
 
 HazzeSwede wrote:
Loony Spirits looping around,beyond funny! #6
 
4 x 2 = 8!  The second listen is always beneficial, i think.


HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 02:50
 
Loony Spirits looping around,beyond funny! #6

Kemoc
(Waynesville, OH)
Posted: Sep 02, 2010 - 08:05
 
An,This never gets old!

PFM
(Off the road)
Posted: Jul 16, 2010 - 11:03
 
 rtunell wrote:
Time to retire this one.
 
bump


rtunell
Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 14:02
 
Time to retire this one.

rtunell
Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 14:02
 
Time to retire this one.

calypsus_1
Posted: May 07, 2010 - 00:06
 

baka beyond by ~sholky2
Marko Solic  ©2009-2010 ~sholky2

ethnoambient 2009



sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 13:22
 
 Felix_The_Cat wrote:
That Forest Spirit is just a loop?
 

Oh yes, most spirits are trapped in a loop, that is why they show themselves.{#Yes}

kittyharker
(Arkham)
Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 13:21
 
Thanks for playing — love it!

Felix_The_Cat
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 10:18
 
That Forest Spirit is just a loop?

photolew
Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 10:17
 
Great pick me up song.....what a nice suprise this afternoon

oilydwarf
Posted: Feb 18, 2010 - 08:47
 
Heard this about one time too many.  Never turned down the volume on RP before, this is a first.

fingerpin
(OhiO)
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 11:07
 
 lemmoth wrote:
Not a song.  I like songs.  2
 
Sure it is!

dictionary.com:
SONG ~ noun
1.a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
2.a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words."
3.poetical composition; poetry.
4.the art or act of singing; vocal music.
5.something that is sung.
6.an elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display.




photolew
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 11:04
 
What a great afternoon pick me up....LOVE this tune

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 22, 2009 - 21:08
 


This is cool...  love it...



namp
Posted: Dec 17, 2009 - 13:05
 
How this can come after a wonderful Nick Drake track really beats me...


jmaxi
Posted: Dec 07, 2009 - 02:31
 
Rubbish- I was listening to Deep Forest in the Whirlygig in the earltyu '90s - miles better IMHO

 vit wrote:


Except that this came out 9 years before that song (see Spirit of the Forest Info vs Deep Forest Release Date)

So maybe Deep Forest sounds a little too much like Baka Beyond.