Man in the Forest: Remembering Louis Sarno
I had the opportunity to speak with Louis Sarno when I travelled to Central African Republic to visit the Baku pygmies. Louis is an American musicologist and author of Song from the Forest. He combined recordings of Bayakan music with sounds of their surrounding environment into a two-CD/book package entitled Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the BaBenzl Pygmies. A movie based on his life called Oka! was released in 2011, as well as a documentary film Song from the Forest was shot in 2013. Louis Sarno died in 2017, he was 62.