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Torgeir Vassvik: Saivu

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 22, 2007

Sáivu is the first release by Norwegian Sami musician Torgeir Vassvik, who combines elements from the ancient, shamanistic joik singing of the Samis of northern Scandinavia with Siberian throat-singing and modern soundsacapes. Vassvik has also composed music for theater, including a production of Henrik Ibsen's On the Heights, and films. Like another Norwegian Sami musician, Mari Boine, he adds new musical ingredients and aromas to the traditional yodel-like Sami joik singing; and like her, he plays the frame drum. But ...