CHANT DE SARCLAGE (WEDDING SONG)
Created on 19/01/2011Latest update on 22/04/2024
Artist: Difang & Igay Duana
Author: traditional
Label: Inédit
Year: 1989
On Polyphonies Vocales Des Aborigènes De Taïwan. Both singers, a farming Ami couple from the south of Taiwan, were in Paris as part of a cultural exchange program when their performance was recorded by the Maison des Cultures du Monde. The Amis are just one of many aboriginal ethnic groups on the island, living along a matrilinial kinship system.
Covers:
- 1994:
Enigma [main sample in Return To Innocence, their second biggest hit after Sadeness; while the drum beat was lifted from Led Zeppelin's When The Levee Breaks; this performance was used as official themesong for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996]
Following the Enigma success, Belgian producer Dan Lacksman re-used that same Ami couple's chant for a new recording on a more laid-back beat (Rock Records Japan in '98). Legal action made sure Difang & Igay Duana obtained their rightful share in all procedings.
