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Written in fRoots issue 305, 2008


VARIOUS
Son Vuäinn – She Sees: Skolt Sámi Leu’dd From The Kola Peninsula
Global Music Centre GMCD 0716 (2007)

Two CDs in a 100-page hardback book of lyrics and notes, the largest collection ever made of songs of the Sámi of Russia’s Kola peninsula. Five women singers, all now dead, recorded by Ilpo Saastamoinen in 1994-’97. Not joiks, leu’dd are chant-like or more melodic contemporary stories of a virtually disappeared life disrupted by war and clearance. www.globalmusic.fi


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