Juul Sadée: Ub-O

Three-piece song, about carrying and balancing, about life and death.

In former times, traditionally in Moluccan culture, ‘Ub-O’ has been sung during fishing to seduce the fishes, to cradle a crying child and to honour the ancestors. Nowadays, though, because of the mystical loaded meaning, this last third fragment will be sung sparely, not even for special family occasions. Read more.