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Elders Drinking Song

⬆️ As if your bones heard something familiar from before you were even born. That song is from the Amis (阿美族) people of Taiwan. 老人飲酒歌 or Elders Drinking Song is a traditional Amis chant, famously performed by Difang (郭英男) and Igay (郭秀珠) who were Amis from the Maran (馬蘭社) settlement. The vocals were lifted straight from a 1988 recording of Difang and Igay singing during a French government-backed ethnomusicology project — meant for research. With EMI as the outsourced vault. EMI (Electric and Musical Industries), a commercial British label. Because even "non-commercial" academic recordings were often pressed to vinyl / CD by big labels, just for reach or preservation. EMI probably saw it as just another folk catalogue item. The original singers never expected their voices to hit global charts — through Enigma. Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Michael Cretu. They were under Virgin Reco...

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