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Date: June 23, 2024 at 10:28:20
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Ocean Prayer/Pamyua |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywgziY3FPB0 |
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Ocean Prayer is Pamyua's first single from the album
SideA/SideB. This drumsong pays respect to the ocean for
sharing her many gifts.
Buy Music Here: http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Pamyua
Pamyua's double album SideA/SideB is a collection of
Inuit drumsongs primarily sung in the Yup'ik and Cup'ik
language from Southwestern Alaska. Drumsongs are powerful
expressions of Inuit creativity and connection to our
Arctic environment. SideA/SideB offers a new approach to
appreciate Inuit music. SideA (disc 1) honors Inuit
tradition by featuring only vocals and Inuit drumming;
SideB (disc 2) has the same songs with different world
music arrangements.
This music video was made by Electric Igloo Creative in
Anchorage, Alaska.
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Date: July 14, 2024 at 15:38:43
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Ocean Prayer/Pamyua |
URL: Language goes Two Ways |
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Hey, thanks for this!
I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to comment.. but it took me that long to sit
with.. listen to.. enough of the music behind your post.. to even begin to
think I understand something so outside my own experiences. And I've been
swamped with my day job.. which turned into 24/7 for a little while there.. so
it took me a while to listen..
My only meaningful exposure to indigenous people has been to the Hawaiian
culture. And even with them, and as much as my life personally has exposed
me to, I feel it’d be safe to say I don't get it. How could I? My brain is wired
so differently than I imagine their’s. I may have mentioned the notion, put
forth by Gary Snyder, of one’s mother tongue’s part in how one’s neutral
network is created and the subsequence impact on our point of view. Link
above..
Anyways, it came to mind as I listened, more than a few times, to Ocean
Prayer. It just took me a while.. and as I said my day job sorta took whatever
attention I had for that kind of contemplation away for a spell.. to figure out
how I was feeling.. to sense the rhythm.. to incorporate the beats.. and in
wondering why I realized there’s this vast difference between the Inuit
languages, which seem grounded in consonants.. and which I have never
contemplated.. and Hawaiian which is practically all vowels.. so it took me a
while to open myself to it.
All’s to say thanks for the opportunity... I greatly appreciate it!
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Date: July 16, 2024 at 08:50:51
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Ocean Prayer/Pamyua |
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Hey, you're welcome, ao! And no sorries necessary,
seriously, it takes whatever time it takes to set aside
time for a deep dive into anything amidst everyday
life...especially anymore...
(Speaking of which, that book you recommended to me
months back is still halfway read waiting for me to feel
an easy flow with reading again...lol...)
Thanks for that article by Gary Snyder, I want to just
draw a circle around the whole thing and say, Yes. This.
lol I've always found what he and we are speaking of here
incredibly pivotal -- in a few words, how language in
general, and especially our *original language* we "learn
reality by" as we're raised from babies, literally shapes
and frames our contexts of experience as human beings...
Not even our limited understandings of right- and left-
brain function can offer a full embrace of all that's
involved there...
Music...melody and rhythm, and the spaces between...as
we've also noted, is perhaps the only language that
operates as cleanly as it does... ;) Right there with you
on how it feels to approach indigenous
offerings...lol...the immense difference in wiring...and
I salute your instincts toward just sitting with it,
offering your assimilative self the patience needed for
really receiving it on its terms...
I doubt I'd ever be able to leave Hawaii, if I ever got
there...lol... I've never been, but my partner has, and
from the slow smile that comes to him whenever I ask him
to try and describe the energy of the land and culture I
can feel it somewhat, resonating at a frequency sooo much
slower and deeper than anything I've felt before --
except perhaps at the Hopi reservation. And there I
suppose that's a common resonance amongst everything
expressed by those who live so much closer to the
Earth...though of course the specifics are entirely
unique...
Best exposure to tribal realities come from what's close
to us geographically, that we can experience with our
whole selves, I suppose...though recordings also provide
beautiful access to them, where people have chosen to
create them, as Pumyua has... Being in AZ, First Nations
folk are in my proximity, and not being far from Hopi
I've been there a few times years ago for dances, and the
entire experience was always totally altering... Just
coming up onto res territory is surreal; you literally
can't see that it exists until you're right on top of
it...it's perfectly camouflaged into the surrounding
desertscape... (It's one of the two oldest continually
inhabited region in the U.S.) There weren't so many
satellite disks back in '89, when I was there...but one
surreal image was that of TV antennas sticking up out of
dwellings as old as what are usually termed "ruins" in
deserted tribal communities... ;)
I think I've mentioned this before in a post of one of
their dances, that they made public... Dwellings are
built to create rectangular open plazas, where the
Kachina dances are held, and there's often so many
gathered to watch the only sitting spaces are on the
roofs, where I always was... Of the oh-so-many incredibly
beautiful energies vying for my attention, as I watched
those amazing, mysterious dances and let them take me
Elsewhere, what riveted me most was watching the bare
feet of all the youngsters there who were sitting on laps
-- because they were imitating the complex, syncopated
rhythms of the dancer's feet, like, exactly...! Watching
those tiny feet air dancing right along with them I could
feel some very deep territory and internal conditioned
wiring loosening up in me, in ways I'll never be able to
describe... ;)
Loving this opportunity for sharing, thanks to you too!
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Date: June 23, 2024 at 10:32:52
From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Pamyua's website |
URL: https://www.pamyua.com/ |
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(Not sure if it's just me, as I'm hearing it in the
moment...but one particular sound in their language is so
reminding me of a similar sound in Welsh, the way a double
l is pronounced -- like air slipping through the sides of
their mouth? lol Probably only vaguely similar in
reality...)
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