July 2009

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Adjagas

While looking up links for last week’s post I came across a link to Adjagas.  Of course I couldn’t resist a listen and was hooked instantly.  As soon as the CD arrived it was ripped to my PC and I have listened to it almost constantly ever since!  I have uploaded the whole album and, apart from the 2nd track Dolgematki, love it.  It’s not even that I dislike that track but rather that I feel it jangles with the mood set by the rest of the album.

Adjagas is a state between sleeping and waking. It is where you get in touch with issues and messages that are important to you. It is also said that the Sami learned yoiking from the ulda people that live in another world parallel to our own, in the Adjagas state of mind. Adjagas is a celebration of the ancient art of yoiking and a search for what the future will bring…

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What A Voice!

I listen to a lot of songs.  I have many favourites that aren’t my favourites because they have great lyrics, I often find it hard to catch exactly what the lyrics are saying or they are in a language I don’t even understand, it is because I just love the music and the voice is merely another instrument creating that music.  The selection in this post are all tracks where there are no lyrics or where they are obscured (mostly by design).  Most of the songs are a showcase for the voice as an instrument rather than telling a story or where they convey something without words (as in the case of Yoiking).   All the singers are very different and have been chosen not because they complement each other but more a demonstration of what an amazing instrument the human voice is.

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