About this minute
- Title
- Healing Ceremony
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Location
- Malaysia
- Collections
- Collection 4
GRC4 #19
You’ve just heard a piece of music called ‘Healing Ceremony’, sung by members of a tribe called the Temiar people. The singers live in remote villages in the jungle of Malaysia. Did you notice noises from the landscape in the background of the recording? Influenced by the natural landscape around them, they sing ‘dreamsongs’ based…