Blues Forteana ∴ Iggy Makarevich, AAS, LMNO

Music video for the song “NORMO JOVNNA”
by the band AIGI
Directed by Benedicte Maria Orvung
Produced by Orvung film A/S (c)
webpage:www.myspace.com/aigitheband

Love this song, a fabulous Sami yoik.

Like many, I originally believed and posted this to be a Native American song, for it was presented like that to the world by a bunch of groups including Ayllu Records who has it by a most excellent band, Lay o lay aleloya – Manantial from Ecuador. After hearing the real version, one easily note that the band from Ecuador is only singing one little phrase from the song. Interesting how they name the song with that phrase, too… Weird.

But they lied.

I posted about it over at WATT.

Wait, what’s a yoik?

The Sami Yoik – LAITS

www.laits.utexas.edu/sami/diehtu/giella/music/yoiksunna.htm

The Sami Yoik. Kathryn Burke. The yoik, a unique form of cultural expression for the Sami people, can be understood as a metaphor for Sami traditional culture …

Sámi Culture and the Yoik – FolkWorld

www.folkworld.de/9/e/sami.html

Ursula Länsman, member of the Sámi Band Angelit, introduces in this article her … events, beliefs and teachings form the traditional core of the Sámi yoik, tales …

“Joik” Is The Beautiful And Haunting Folk Music You Need In Your Life

www.buzzfeed.com/…/joik-is-the-beautiful-and-haunting-folk-music-you-need-in-yo

Oct 3, 2014 – The Sámi joik to honor someone or something in their lives. It’s not what you would traditionally call a “song” but instead is an expression of the …

Sami traditional joiking and the story of Akanidi, the daughter of the sun

grandma-in-lapland.com/sami-traditional-joiking-and-the-story-of-akanidi-the-daught…

Jul 27, 2014 – A joik (also spelled yoik), is a traditional Sami form of song. Originally, joik referred to only one of several Sami singing styles, but in English the …

Indigenous Sámi singer powers COP21 mobilisations with her yoik

https://350.org/songs-from-the-sami-a-yoik-for-the-climate/

Oct 14, 2015 – She has made a powerful yoik, a traditional Sámi song, for everyone to learn ahead of the mobilisations in Paris. It’s called “Gulahallat …