through joni mitchell's the jungle line (on the hissing of summer lawns)
and now, i just came across this amazing music from burundi as well
Musiques Traditionelles du Burundi
Meara O'Reilly
This album from the legenday Ocora label is really one of my favorites on the planet.
When I first heard these two girls sing I had to be actively convinced it wasn't just pieces of a tape recording that had been spliced together! (Ocora co-founder Pierre Schaeffer also pioneered the early tape-splicing music movement known as Musique Concrete, so I wasn't totally nuts):
I just wrote about the amazing ability of some birds to sing multiple notes at once. This woman's ability to switch rapidly between her head and chest voice is totally daring anyone to say humans couldn't defy all odds and learn to do it too:
The liner notes for these songs say that this woman is using her lips as a reed. If you listen carefully, you can hear the switch over to her normal voice. It's a traditional kind of song for mourning:
Ubuhuha 2................................
bonus: here's a version of dreamland i never even knew existed:
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