The Yoikis as old as the Sami culture, and many yoiks or improvised chants have been passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next. So has this one, which first landed with Johan Märak before Jan Sandström took it over.

Sparsely worded, the yoik manages to convey thoughts and feelings, not seldom of the divine. In this composition the Sami ceremonial drum is heard, the reindeer shepherd’s calls to his dog and even the sounds of the ptarmigan - the bird that comes with amessage, w...