The recordings from this week focused on music from the rainforest. The four selections all use voice as their primary instrument. It does not seem that the performers of each piece are of a specific gender although the first piece, styles of yodeling, seems as though it could possible be a song performed by women. I felt that each piece got progressively more developed, the first, styles of yodeling, being rather bare besides the yodeling, while the next pieces add percussion and varying sounds. Styles of yodeling and the Molimo song seemed very similar in style, both had a very cyclical rhythmic sound. The last two, Makala and Ejengi ceremony, seemed like they could possibly involve dancing or some type of movement based on their sound and the involvement of their performers. Both backgrounds sound like they have clapping or stomping of the feet. I personally enjoyed the Ejengi ceremony recording the most. The music kind of made me want to dance and I felt like there was a greater variety in the sounds used. I liked that it was less cyclical than the others, the sound changed from vocal, adding more percussion and different voices as it went along. Overall I felt it had more body to it.
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