Mari Boine - Gula Gula - Hear the voices of the foremothers
Album: Gula Gula, 1989
Music& lyrics Mari Boine
Vocal& drum: Mari Boine
Guitar: Roger Ludvigsen
Quena: Carlos Zamata Quispe
Claypot: Unni Shael Damslora
Drone Drum: Ale Møller
Producer: Tellef Kvifte
Publisher: Sony ATV Sweden
Video: Jan Helmer Olsen
Portrait photo: Gro A. Stokke
This video of the legendary song “Gula Gula” features beautiful landscapes of Sápmi in the Nothern part of Norway. The footage was captured by Jan Helmer Olsen in an invitation to take you to discover the beauty of Sámiland and its Indigenous culture.
The music and the unique voice of Mari Boine reflect the power and the silence of nature.
Gula Gula means Hear the voices of the foremothers, a song written in the Sámi language over 30 years ago, as a roar to bring awareness to preserve our Mother Earth.
More than ever, we need to listen to the ancient wisdom of the Indigenous world.
LYRICS
GULA GULA
Gula gula
nieida
gánda
Gula máttut dál du čurvot
manin attát eatnama duolvat
mirkkoduvvot
guoriduvvot
Gula jiena
nieida
gánda
Gula máttaráhkuid jiena
Eana lea min buohkaid eadni
Su jos soardit ieža jápmit
Letgo diktán iežat báidnot
leatgo iešge mielde gilvvus
Gula máttut dál dus jerret
itgo don muitte gos don vulget
Dus leat oappát
dus leat vielljat
Lulli-Ámeriihkka arvevuvddiin
Ruonaeatnama geađgerittuin
Itgo don muitte gos don vulget
Gula gula
nieida
gánda
Gula máttut dál du čurvot
manin attát eatnama duolvat
mirkkoduvvot
guoriduvvot
Gula jiena
nieida
gánda
gula máttaráhkuid jiena
Eana lea min buohkaid eadni
Su jos soardit ieža jápmit
HEAR THE VOICES OF THE FOREMOTHERS
Gula brother
Gula sister
Hear the voices of our foremothers
Why have you defiled the earth
Poisoned
depleted
Listen brother
Listen sister
Hear the song of our ancestors
Eatnan, our mother, is Earth
If we kill her
we also die
Did you get snared in the fiction
That symbiosis is competition
Hear our forefathers’ question
Do you know where you are from
You have brothers
You have sisters
in the Amazonian rainforests
on the windswept cliffs of Greenland
Do you remember where you come from
Translated to English by Julie Whitehorn.
26 авг 2024