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We were tickled to notice kulning, or herd calling, native to around these parts, as well as Mongolian (?) throat singing in a different scene of last weekend's episode.
The loud, long notes of kulning, often quite high-pitched, were used to call cows and goats home from mountainous pastures at night. I found a great video from a Swedish news site filmed at a summer farm with a musicology doctoral researcher talking about it in reenactment clothes surrounded by heritage cows, along with a cute little old lady who also practices the art with an adorable regional accent:
I was introduced to it by the Finland-Swedish world music band Gjallarhorn's song Kulning from 1997. I also discovered this hilarious uh... kulning... influencer... who quit her urban life and moved to the north to cosplay 24/7 in faux-old-fashioned Romantic outfits and film herself doing laundry without a washing machine and emerging from ice-swimming holes in her underwear, you know, playing a horn in a white fake fur duster... just all those Things that are The Way We Do in the Exotic North, according to her. (Common sense and other sources suggest people in northern Sweden typically wear modern winter clothes and use washing machines, just like people in northern Finland.)
I'm mostly familiar with throatsinging through the fantastic Mongolian heavy metal group The Hu (for a great audiovisual introduction try Wolf Totem for example), but here's a more traditional and straightforward example of Mongolian throatsinging:
(I liked that in the show you could actually see the throatsinger - they just stuck him in the scene in costume and without any lines, just standing among the actors and singing, lol.)
The loud, long notes of kulning, often quite high-pitched, were used to call cows and goats home from mountainous pastures at night. I found a great video from a Swedish news site filmed at a summer farm with a musicology doctoral researcher talking about it in reenactment clothes surrounded by heritage cows, along with a cute little old lady who also practices the art with an adorable regional accent:
I was introduced to it by the Finland-Swedish world music band Gjallarhorn's song Kulning from 1997. I also discovered this hilarious uh... kulning... influencer... who quit her urban life and moved to the north to cosplay 24/7 in faux-old-fashioned Romantic outfits and film herself doing laundry without a washing machine and emerging from ice-swimming holes in her underwear, you know, playing a horn in a white fake fur duster... just all those Things that are The Way We Do in the Exotic North, according to her. (Common sense and other sources suggest people in northern Sweden typically wear modern winter clothes and use washing machines, just like people in northern Finland.)
I'm mostly familiar with throatsinging through the fantastic Mongolian heavy metal group The Hu (for a great audiovisual introduction try Wolf Totem for example), but here's a more traditional and straightforward example of Mongolian throatsinging:
(I liked that in the show you could actually see the throatsinger - they just stuck him in the scene in costume and without any lines, just standing among the actors and singing, lol.)
