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This lady has the most amazing voice and with the looks to go with it. Gorgeous on both counts. And a passionate representative of her native Sami people.
I read this and thought "what a perceptive listener", I then realised it was me who posted the comment. Proves I do agree with me sometimes.🐨
This represents the music and culture of some of us here on RP,
myself somewhat included.
Thanks Bill and Bec and the Sami People. We are all the richer.
The Sami have a high frequency of mtDNA haplogroup U5 (around 50%, according to data from the Genographic Project). U5 can be found at lower frequencies in Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa. Amerinds, or Native Americans (in the broad sense of the term "America", ranging from Canada to Argentina) are mtDNA haplogroups A, B, C, D (and a relatively small percentage of X). The ancestors of both U5 and A-D left Africa and passed through the Middle East, but those of U5 headed northwest to Scandinavia, while those of A-D headed northeast, into Siberia, and from there some eventually migrated into the Americas. (The migration patterns of X are sort of complicated and are still polemic.) Of course we're all related, if you go back about 150,000 or 200,000 years, but the predominant Sami lineage isn't very close to the Amerind lineages, which explains in part why Mari Boine doesn't look much like a Native American woman. I'm haplogroup U5 too, and my mother's family history (she's the source of my mtDNA) all traces back to the British Isles, as far as we know.
Then again, genes and languages are independent variables, and ethnic identity is something you can put on or take off like clothing.
Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but the new genetic data really helps bring our prehistory into focus.
Beautiful music, by the way; this woman is quite an artist, and I admire her for reaching back into her cultural heritage in these days of mind-numbing globalization and consumerism.
Bastante interestante.
BTW, Otomi, westernized traditional music or blends if you prefer are all part of the 'globalization' process that has been going on since Europeans developed long boats.
Taking me places I will probably never go. Thanks RP
Well said!
Taking me places I will probably never go. Thanks RP
Hear, hear!
Nice groove.
Very true!
A Beauty Hannibal, errrr.. I mean Businessgypsy! Cheers
I would not recommend that you buy this CD then — I am not likely to either — but one of the great things about RP is that you can listen to the individual tunes here at different times. There are a lot of songs that I hear and enjoy here, but I may not enjoy the whole CDs that those songs are on.
I find that most of that album is in fact quite enjoyable. Good stuff!
I'm surprised that her work rates so low on RP - it sounds pretty accessible to me and not over-exotic for the Western ear. It's really growing on me :o)
See below (May 29, 2009).
I'm surprised that her work rates so low on RP - it sounds pretty accessible to me and not over-exotic for the Western ear. It's really growing on me :o)
DNQ
diazonaphthoquinone?
DNQ
Me, I like it.
My western ear thinks this bites...my eastern ear agrees.
Me, I like it.
What you said...... Me too
" Vuolgge mu mielde Bassivárrái ("Come With Me to the Sacred Mountain) is a dream of freedom from Western civilization's oppression of minorities. Mari Boine portrays a woman who tries to escape from the darkness, the bleak conditions of the Sami people after the Norwegian colonization."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umNEnyxxFxE
Beautiful beautiful song...
As opposed to Mars-native ears?
If that's a photo of Norway, then you'd be correct.
Norway on Mushrooms....
And that's not good.
Haaaaaaaaaaa.....!!! Good one!
after 15x BS in a row!
I think it probably sounds most dynamically expressive if you happen to understand Saami.
jadewahoo wrote:
Me, I like it.
This is one of the reasons I love RP. TRUE diversity. And I happen to find this one very interesting....
And that's not good.
Reminds me of when I was taken on a guided tour of Canyon De Chelly which is a Navajo sacred region.
Most beautiful place in the Southwest. This photo does no justice.
20 years or so ago we also toured Canyon De Chelly. First on horseback and then on the Indian run military jeeps and trucks. On both tours we had calm serene scenes and then fast racing. Our guides had great respect for their past. They also had a lot of fun with racing up and down the river. It was a blast.
And you're right about the photo.
Me, I like it.
I like it. That means it IS good.
.. yes, there is an uncomfortable level in my VU's .....
This might be a bit closer to Mari Boine's home country...
If that's a photo of Norway, then you'd be correct.
Reminds me of when I was taken on a guided tour of Canyon De Chelly which is a Navajo sacred region.
Most beautiful place in the Southwest. This photo does no justice.
This might be a bit closer to Mari Boine's home country...
In the past few hours we've heard the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Police, and the Rolling Stones.
That's a lot of English music!
Never forget that if you don't like something you can turn it down or find a different place to listen to music. That's the beauty of being free.
I fear, sir, that you are in the wrong establishment.
Boy, are you in the wrong place if eclectic (I suppose that is what you meant, or was it some kind of noisy, rambling election that bothers you?) is not your thing...
I kind of like this. 7
peter_james_bond wrote:
Buddy, that kind of ignorant (and racist) comment is going to go over real well with Bill, Rebecca, and the general RP audience.
Buddy, that kind of ignorant (and racist) comment is going to go over real well with Bill, Rebecca, and the general RP audience.
I dig electric noise, English and otherwise!
polite cough
fuh2 wrote:
Reminds me of when I was taken on a guided tour of Canyon De Chelly which is a Navajo sacred region.
Most beautiful place in the Southwest. This photo does no justice.
I still find the cover art rather distracting.
whtahtefcuk wrote:
Reminds me of when I was taken on a guided tour of Canyon De Chelly which is a Navajo sacred region.
Most beautiful place in the Southwest. This photo does no justice.
The Sami have a high frequency of mtDNA haplogroup U5 (around 50%, according to data from the Genographic Project). U5 can be found at lower frequencies in Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa. Amerinds, or Native Americans (in the broad sense of the term "America", ranging from Canada to Argentina) are mtDNA haplogroups A, B, C, D (and a relatively small percentage of X). The ancestors of both U5 and A-D left Africa and passed through the Middle East, but those of U5 headed northwest to Scandinavia, while those of A-D headed northeast, into Siberia, and from there some eventually migrated into the Americas. (The migration patterns of X are sort of complicated and are still polemic.) Of course we're all related, if you go back about 150,000 or 200,000 years, but the predominant Sami lineage isn't very close to the Amerind lineages, which explains in part why Mari Boine doesn't look much like a Native American woman. I'm haplogroup U5 too, and my mother's family history (she's the source of my mtDNA) all traces back to the British Isles, as far as we know.
Then again, genes and languages are independent variables, and ethnic identity is something you can put on or take off like clothing.
Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but the new genetic data really helps bring our prehistory into focus.
Beautiful music, by the way; this woman is quite an artist, and I admire her for reaching back into her cultural heritage in these days of mind-numbing globalization and consumerism.
Fascinating - thanks for this Otomi!
Actually, listening to this piece, I can understand why one w;ould believe 1st nations people in America and the Sami were related.
HINT?
Yeah, it relaxes me too.
Agreed!!! (except I have not lived in Scandanavia, but I have 2 of their cars)
I figured that maybe Mari Boine herself doesn't actually look like a Native American woman (as per cover), so I Wiki'd her: how interesting: she's a Lapp, aka Sami — thus proving that those folks walked all the way across Scandinvavia and Siberia to find warmer lands down in the Plains of the USA and beyond. Uh — there y'are: a history of the half the world in one sentence.
The Sami have a high frequency of mtDNA haplogroup U5 (around 50%, according to data from the Genographic Project). U5 can be found at lower frequencies in Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa. Amerinds, or Native Americans (in the broad sense of the term "America", ranging from Canada to Argentina) are mtDNA haplogroups A, B, C, D (and a relatively small percentage of X). The ancestors of both U5 and A-D left Africa and passed through the Middle East, but those of U5 headed northwest to Scandinavia, while those of A-D headed northeast, into Siberia, and from there some eventually migrated into the Americas. (The migration patterns of X are sort of complicated and are still polemic.) Of course we're all related, if you go back about 150,000 or 200,000 years, but the predominant Sami lineage isn't very close to the Amerind lineages, which explains in part why Mari Boine doesn't look much like a Native American woman. I'm haplogroup U5 too, and my mother's family history (she's the source of my mtDNA) all traces back to the British Isles, as far as we know.
Then again, genes and languages are independent variables, and ethnic identity is something you can put on or take off like clothing.
Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but the new genetic data really helps bring our prehistory into focus.
Beautiful music, by the way; this woman is quite an artist, and I admire her for reaching back into her cultural heritage in these days of mind-numbing globalization and consumerism.
I figured that maybe Mari Boine herself doesn't actually look like a Native American woman (as per cover), so I Wiki'd her: how interesting: she's a Lapp, aka Sami — thus proving that those folks walked all the way across Scandinvavia and Siberia to find warmer lands down in the Plains of the USA and beyond. Uh — there y'are: a history of the half the world in one sentence.
why all the 1s? Pretty good I think. Am I missing something?
No — I think it's the "ones" who are missing something! Mari Boine is fantastic, this is a great album.
why all the 1s? Pretty good I think. Am I missing something?
god_exists_but wrote:
And an all-Ewok choir providing harmonies?
RP should play Adjagas — groovy Sami music as well.
8 for the music + 1 for having used a Sami language = 9
I'll see your and raise you .
This is interesting- thanks, RP. :)
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