A type of phonetic poetry consisting primarily of untranslatable vocals sung in a chanting fashion somewhat reminiscent of certain Native American vocal music styles, joiking is a tradition of the Sami people of northern Scandinavia.
Everyone should hear this mix at least once in their Ives. Beautiful joiks, thanks so much for posting! Helping myself to all you've posted to learn more about this type of music :)
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You_only_different October 04, 2014
Everyone should hear this mix at least once in their Ives. Beautiful joiks, thanks so much for posting! Helping myself to all you've posted to learn more about this type of music :)
⃠janet.jongebloed plus October 04, 2014
@You_only_different Thank you! My mix http://8tracks.com/janet-jongebloed/so-sami also has a lot of joik on it.
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