The Huhahu Male Voice Choir

Based in Amager Copenhagen, The Huhahu Male Voice Choir have been regular collaborators with Livingstones Kabinet since 2001. During that time they have aroused great interest among ethnomusicologists as Scandinavia’s sole exponents of the art of “huhahu” shepherd calling.

Since the viking conquests, the sheep herders on Scotland’s northern coast, the area now known as Caithness, have practiced a unique form of vocalisation. Using only the syllables “Hu”, “Ha” and their compounds “Hu-ha” and “Ha-hu”, they have developed a rhythmic calling technique to give instructions to sheepdogs over distances. The connections between this and “yoiking” among the Samic people of Northern Scandinavia need hardly be emphasized.

Now The Huhahu Male Voice Choir have begun to integrate this ancient art into the thoroughly contemporary kabaret world of Livingstone’s Kabinet music. The result is a very special meeting of cultures; emotionally moving, stimulating and thought-provoking.

Herrekoret Huhahu

Herrekoret ‘Huhahu’, som har base på Amager, har samarbejdet med Livingstones Kabinet siden 2001. De har gennem den senere tid vakt stor interesse blandt etnologiske musikforskere, som Skandinaviens eneste fortolkere af huhahu-fårekald.

Siden vikingetogterne har fårehyrderne på Skotlands nordkyst, i det område der idag er kendt som Caithness, praktiseret en speciel form for vokalisering. Ved brug af stavelserne “Hu”, “Ha” og deres sammensætninger “Hu-ha” og “Ha-hu”, har de udviklet en rytmisk kaldeteknik, som gør det muligt at give instruktioner til fårehunde over store afstande. Sammenhængen mellem dette og det samiske folks joike-sang behøves næppe understreget yderligere.

Nu er herrekoret Huhahu begyndt at integrere denne ældgamle kunst i Livingstones Kabinets ultramoderne kabaretmusik. Dette resulterer i et helt unikt møde mellem to kulturer; følelsesmæssigt bevægende, stimulerende og tankevækkende.