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Louis Sarno<\/strong> <\/p>\n
\nborn 1954 in New Jersey, enjoys a world-wide reputation as a musicologist. His vast life\u2019s work includes more than 1.000 hours of recordings of unique songs and musical pieces that often have already disappeared in this form among the Bayaka.
\nIn college, he studied English and Literature and shared his passion for experimental music with his roommate Jim Jarmusch, whose later films Dead Man (1995) and Ghost Dog (1999) are partly inspired by Sarno\u00b4s exceptional life journey.
\nListening to the radio on a winter\u2019s night in the middle of the 80s, Sarno came across a kind of music he had never heard before: \u201cThose strange harmonies gave me goose bumps. They had a hypnotic effect on me–pure magic.\u201d The music he heard on the radio captivated him. He did some research, found out that it was Pygmy music and, armed with only a tape recorder and the 500 dollars he had to his name, he boarded a plane to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. He only had enough money for a one-way ticket.
\nLouis found his music in the rainforests of the Congo River Basin, with the Bayaka. That was in 1985. Today, a quarter century later, he is still living among the pygmies: \u2018\u201dThe longest time of my life I have spent among the Bayaka\u201c, Sarno says today. \u201eThey are my family, the rainforest is my home.\u201c<\/p>\n