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  "id": "ryukyu_noro_umui_kwena",
  "name": "Umui and kwena (Ryukyuan priestess ritual song)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Umui and kwena are the ritual songs of the noro priestesses and other women officiants of the Ryukyu Islands, sung as prayers to the gods at village rites and sacred groves. On Kudaka Island off Okinawa they culminated in Izaiho, the initiation of the island's women into the priesthood held every twelve years in the year of the horse; it was documented on film in 1966 and 1978, the last time it was held.",
  "recipe": "classic mid-1960s umui and kwena, ritual Devotional, indigenous branch. group vocals, single lead single track no stacking. field recording. small-diaphragm pencil condenser, portable field-recorder pre. tape 15ips.",
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    ],
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      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
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    "tuning": "aural_relative",
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    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
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      "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
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      "voice_microtone": "voice_microtone_local_unspecified",
      "voice_tradition": "voice_tradition_source_unspecified",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_compound_source_unspecified",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_ametrical_chant",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_live_group",
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}