This is not simply natural sounds that any mother can make. While we might be tempted to take this music for granted as instinctive maternal sounds, such an assessment would be a major mistake. We might not understand a word of what she is singing but that in no way limits or stops us from fully embracing what we hear. Back then we didn’t yet have a clue to language in the sense of knowing what the words meant even though we instinctively understood and clung to the emotional content of a woman singing softly to us.Īs it was when we were babes, it is as we experience Sona Jobarteh’s mature sounds. Sona’s sound is the warm bosom and soft heartbeat with which we so closely identified as infants. We never lose the longing to have a female voice in our inner ear, a voice healing our hurts, sharing our joys, reassuring and reorienting us when everything seems to be going south. Sona Jobarteh’s music wraps and enraptures us in an aural swaddling of sounds, enticing and encouraging us to rest, relax, bliss out, drift off, dream and enter into an altered state of consciousness.ĭeep down we all have had a primordial experience: the female voice is the first voice we heard, the first voice to bless us, lullaby us, comfort us. Regardless of tempo or the amount of percussion employed, this music is soothing sounds.
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