uma, simonetti: tribal chants and japanese hollering

So, a quickie:

Roberto de Simone’s Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie, from 1976, tells the story of Cinderella sung in an obscure Neopolitan dialect. Roberto de Simone was a musicologist. He discovered this sort of pagan culture which had not been affected by Catholicism, and still existed as a matriarchal shepherding community. This was part of an opera. It is wild.

Roberto de Simone – Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie

Then more recently, female Japanese band OOIOO covered it, as a “call to music”, with the title chant ‘UMA’. In their band is Yoshimi from the Boredoms. It is on their album Taiga. I heard it in a basement club in Dalston. It was beaty and chanty. I wish I knew the words, and could participate in the tuneful oriental hollering. 

OOIOOO – UMA

Then EYE (Boredoms founder Yamantaka Eye) remixed it into a vitally electronic bubbling mess on the OOEYEOO remix EP.

OOEYEOO – UMA

…apologies for these being such bad nick, I can’t find any better versions. But, as per usual, you can buy this stuff from the places on the right.