This is a song from the Kelabit Highlands in Borneo. I was doing a slow jam and I accidentally imported this audio into the session. It amazed me how it seemed to fit in. This woman is singing an ancient Kelabit song that even her children no longer understand. Languages and cultures are fading away so quickly. I sent the original recording back to the village and will send this remix so that the younger people can see how beautiful these lost words and worlds can be. Writer Scott Clemens joined me on this trip, which was as far from home as I have ever been.

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