Mari Boine.
Mari Boine, previously known as Mari Boine Persen, (born 8 November 1956) is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people. Gula Gula (first released by Iđut, 1989, later re-released by Real World) was her breakthrough release, and she continued to record popular albums throughout the 1990s. In 2008, she was appointed Professor of musicology at Nesna University College.
Boine was born and raised in Gámehisnjárga, a village on the river Anarjohka in Karasjok municipality in Finnmark, in the far north of Norway.
Boine's parents were Sami. They made a living from salmon fishing and farming. She grew up steeped in the region's natural environment, but also amidst the strict Laestadian Christian movement with discrimination against her people: for example, singing in the traditional Sami joik style was considered "the devil's work". The local school that Boine attended reflected a very different world from her family's. All the teaching was in Norwegian.
Anti-racism
As Boine grew up, she started to rebel against the prejudiced attitude of being an inferior "Lappish" woman in Norwegian society. For instance, the booklet accompanying the CD 'Leahkastin' (Unfolding) is illustrated with photographs with racist captions like "Lapps report for anthropological measurement", "Typical female Lapp", "A well-nourished Lapp"; and it ends with a photo of Boine herself as a girl, captioned "Mari, one of the rugged Lapp-girl types" and attributed "(Photo: Unidentified priest)".
When Boine's album ''Gula Gula'' was first released on Peter Gabriel's RealWorld label in July 1990, its front cover (see illustration) showed an iconic image of the tundra of the far north, the eye of a snowy owl. The front cover curiously did not show the name of the album, or the name or face of Mari Boine herself; the back cover printed the name 'Mari Boine Persen', the Persen surname identifying her as a Norwegian rather than a Sami. On the 2007 release on her own Lean label, the album cover explicitly names Mari Boine with her Sami surname, and shows her (see illustration) in full Sami costume as a shamanistic dancer of her own people, while the white background, like the snowy owl of the original release, hints at the snows of the north.
Boine was asked to perform at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, but refused because she perceived the invitation as an attempt to bring a token minority to the ceremonies.
Musical style
Boine's songs are strongly rooted in her experience of being in a despised minority. For example, the song 'Oppskrift for Herrefolk' (Recipe for a Master Race) on her breakthrough CD 'Gula Gula', sung in Norwegian unlike the rest of the songs which are in Sami, speaks directly of 'discrimination and hate', and ironically recommends ways of oppressing a minority: "Use bible and booze and bayonet"; "Use articles of law against ancient rights".
Boine's other songs are more positive, often singing of the beauty and wildness of Sapmi (Lapland). The title track of 'Gula Gula' asks the listener to remember 'that the earth is our mother'.
Boine sings in a traditional folk style, using the yodelling 'yoik' voice, with a range of accompanying instruments and percussion. For example, on 'Gula Gula' the instruments used are drum, guitar, electric bass clarinet, dozo n'koni, ganga, claypot, darboka, tambourine, seed rattles, cymbal, clarinet, piano, frame drum, saz, drone drum, hammered dulcimer, bosoki, overtone flute, bells, bass, quena, charango and antara.
Reception
Rootsworld, interviewing Boine in 2002, described her as "an unofficial Sami cultural ambassador".
The Guardian, in its 2010 F&M playlist of songs "they just can't turn off", describes ''My Friend of Angel Tribe'' with the words "Norwegian Sami singer Boine, with this soft, melancholy and utterly mesmerising song."
Johnny Loftus, reviewing Boine's ''Eight Seasons'', wrote that "Boine seems to have been inspired, collaborating with producer Bugge Wesseltoft for a collection of pieces weaving her alternately supple and intimate, angry and otherworldly vocals into moody arrangements tinged with jazz influence and electronic programming." While there was a degree of cliché in that, wrote Loftus, it worked well, concluding: "Boine's voice, filtered at first behind the halting notes of a guitar, builds in strength over the brooding electronic rhythm, until her Joik overtakes the electronics completely, becoming fully responsible for the song's deep, chilly atmosphere. Let's see a keyboard's hard drive do that."
Awards
In 2003, Boine was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize. She was appointed knight, first class in the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her artistic diversity on 18 September 2009. On 7 October 2012, Boine was appointed as a "statsstipendiat", an artist with national funding, the highest honour that can be bestowed upon any artist in Norway.
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Mari Boine - Mu Ustit, Engeliid Sogalas (My Friend of Angel Tribe),ladysonja
The ancient, shamanistic, musical traditions of the Samis of northern Scandanavia, in what was once known as Lapland, are given a modern twist by vocalist and drummer Mari Boine (Persen). Although her highly rhythmic songs are rooted in the wordless, yodeling-like, vocal style of yoik (or joik), Boine's arrangements incorporate influences of jazz, rock and other ethnic elements.
Boine, part Sami, was exposed to the spiritual-like, psalm singing of the Christian "Laestadian" movement as a child. As a result of the resistance to her Sami background that she experienced as a youngster, Boine developed a lyrical approach that expressed her feelings about discrimination. Asked to perform at the 1996 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Boine refused to be treated as a "token ethnic ornament" and turned the invitation down
Boine's debut album, Jaskatvouda Manna, was released on the independent Norwegian Iduit label. Her commercial breakthrough came with her 1989 album Gula Gula, released on Peter Gabriel's Real World label. In 1993, Boine's album Goaskinviella (Eagle Brother) was awarded the Norwegian equivalent to a Grammy. Commissioned to compose and perform new music for the Vassajazz Music Festival in 1994, Boine used the opportunity as the foundation for her album Leahkastin (Unfolding), which was released the following year. In 1996, Eagle Brother and Unfolding were combined and released as Radiant Warmth.
In addition to her own recordings, Boine's vocals were featured on saxophonist Jan Garbareks' albums Twelve Moons (1992) and Visible World (1995).
After a break, Boine returned in 2003 with two albums and a new label. Now recording for Minnesota's NorthSide imprint, Boine released the studio effort Eight Seasons, as well as Mari Boine - Remixed, which included reworkings of classic Boine material from notables like Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble.
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http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mari-boine-mn0000678220/discography
Mari Boine: "Jearratt Biekkas" / "Asking the Wind" (Boine & Valkiapää) - 26.10.13,1210beth
Jan Garbarek feat. Mari Boine ~ Evening Land,logansaan
Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Mu (Vuoi Vuoi Me),Lila Merik
Mari Boine - Gulan Du,Murat Yaman
Mari Boine - Gilvve Gollat,Murat Yaman
Mari Boine - Cuovgi Liekkas,Murat Yaman
Mari Boine - Mun Da Han Lean Oaivámuš,Ali Bektas
Mari Boine Persen-Come with me to the sacred mountain (Norvège),Trip Hop Universe
Mari Boine Persen - Katrin who smiles (Norvège),Trip Hop Universe
Mari Boine Persen - Radiant warmth (Norvège),Trip Hop Universe
Mari Boine Tundra Flower,SirGlobator
Mari Boine - Gula Gula,Paulatha
Mari Boine Persen - Diamantta Spaillit,AGIECA
geotenn ar marv - denez prigent & mari boine,sensualvibes
Mari Boine and Liu Sola ''Maze'',Ilianna Lafogianni
Mari Boine - Idjagiedas [2006]
FULL ALBUM
Mari Boine - Idjagiedas [2006] FULL ALBUM (In the Hand of the Night),Oscar Delgado
Artist: Mari Boine
Album: Leahkastin (Unfolding)
Genre: Folk, World music, Sami joik, Jazz, Folk rock, Neofolk
Origin: Norwegian Sami
Year: 1994
00:00 / 1. Gumppet Holvot (The Wolves Howl)
06:29 / 2. Ále Šat (No More)
07:52 / 3. Čuovgi Liekkas (Radiant Warmth)
12:56 / 4. Áhččai (To My Father)
19:04 / 5. Maid Áiggot Muinna Eallin (What Do You Want Life?)
25:59 / 6. Mielahisvuohta (Lunacy Lunacy)
30:58 / 7. Gilvve Gollát (Sow Your Gold)
36:07 / 8. Gulan Du (Hearing You)
40:44 / 9. Vuolgge Mu Mielde Bassivárrái (Come With Me To The Sacred Mountain)
47:37 / 10. Mun Da'han Lean Oaivámuš (Just When I Had ...)
52:16 / 11. Dá Lean Mun (Here I Am)
Mari Boine - Leahkastin (Unfolding) [1994] ,FULL ALBUM,Feeling is Being
