About this minute

Title
Yeyi in the Forest
Recordist
Louis Sarno
Contributor
Pitt Rivers Museum
Year
1993 – 1994
Location
Central African Republic, Africa
Collections
Collection 1
Related resource guides
Compositions, Field Recordings , Human , Music , Texture , Traditional , Voice , Voice

Collection 1 #22

In this recording you could hear a small group of women singing as they move through the forest. The language they are singing in is called ‘Yeyi’. Yeyi is a special kind of singing, a little bit like yodelling! Yeyi can be sung by one person or by big groups of sixty or more people....
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