Mari Boine

Mari Boine ( born November 8, 1956 in Gámehisnjárga, Karasjok, Norway), previously known by her family name Mari Boine Persians, is a Sami singer whose style stands out by simple melodies and thrifty accompaniment.

Work and themes

Mari Boine's texts switch between their Sami native language, English and Norwegian. Their style combines echoes of the so-called Joik vocals with jazz, folk and rock to a " world music " mix. The rhythm often draws on the music of North American Indians, in which, in contrast to the seeds is the drumming of central importance.

Lyrically, it makes itself the cause of their own indigenous people largely our own. In her well-known piece of Gula Gula states ( free, summary translation ): " Listen, brother. Listen, sister. [ ... ] Hear the voices of the foremothers. You wonder why the earth is poisoned and consumed. They remind you where you came from. You want to remind you that the earth is our mother. If we take her life, we will die with her. " So she takes up the subject of " Mother Earth ", which was the beginning of the 1990s boom in the world's nascent political movements of indigenous peoples of central importance.

The Norwegians called Mari Boine singing in Norwegian in the single title for Oppskrift Herre Folk Gula Gula as their CD " master race ", accusing them of tyranny, discrimination and forced proselytizing in Vilges Suola they appear in the form of "white thief ". Also in It sat Duolmma Mu they processed the experience of the seeds, which have suffered in state-controlled boarding the forced tutelage and instruction of their children. Especially often it focuses on the role of women in the seeds that appear at her as "wise grandmothers " and preservers of culture ( Duinne, Eadnán Bakti, both on the CD Gula Gula ).

While Mari Boine worked as a teacher, she discovered as the 1980s, the traditional Sami culture still alive and is now known as an ambassador of her people outside of Scandinavia. Fragmented and for the cohesion of the four countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia) people of the seeds she plays as prominent a role in unifying figure, such as through their appearances in Lovozero, the main Sami settlement in Russia's Kola Peninsula.

Rüdiger Sunner sees them as representative of a neo-paganism in popular music. So they reactivate the spiritual world of the seeds and put their shamanistic singing practice to get creative, but is also open to other cultures.

Career

The 1985 debut album published Jaskatvuoða Manna and its successor Gula Gula ( 1989/1990 ), both published under her full name Mari Boine Persians, as well as the 1991's album Salmer på veien hjem from working with Kari Bremnes and Ole Paus. As of 1992, she called herself only more Mari Boine. The lyrics of their little known first publication have been continuously maintained in Sami language, but the music is a relatively ordinary pop sound, including a cover version of John Lennon's Working Class Hero with Sami text.

The international breakthrough achieved with Gula Gula, the first brace in Norway, entitled Additional hor stammødrenes appeared in 1989 and was re-released a year later by Peter Gabriel and his Real World label. Only on this album she found to her characteristic musical melange world and thus established its success. Later she collaborated with other musicians, such as the Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek or the Russian multi-instrumentalist Sergey Starostin and singer Inna Zhelannaya of the radio - folk group Farlanders.

Although Mari Boine is the most important representative of the Sami culture, has relatively little to do with their music with the Sami singing tradition of Joik. Unlike, say, the late Nils- Aslak Valkeapää Mari Boine from interpreting traditional joik, but mostly self-written, modern songs in Sami language, usually spread a spherically - mystical atmosphere. The throaty, onomatopoeic often wordless joik which are traditionally sung unaccompanied, are not heard in their recordings.

A highlight of her career was her vocal performance at the 2001 church wedding Crown Prince Haakon of Norway Mette -Marit. In 2003, she received the Music Prize of the Nordic Council. On September 18, 2009 Boine was beaten because of your wide range of artistic services to the " Knight First Class of the St. Olav's Order."

Discography

Also includes remixes and cover versions: