Song of the Ancestors
Ta'zhen: Listen to this guy! 'Rap isn't music!' (Laughing) OK but really who's he to judge? Listen to this... Plays a clip of bugs chirping Ta'zhen: You hear that? Bill Randall: Yeah, what is it? Ta'zhen: That's a clip from a Sandibari Song of the Ancestors. Sounds like a bunch of bugs trying to get laid or whatever. But that's what the Sandibari think is sonically beautiful.The Song of the Ancestors is part of the Sandibari's rich oral history traditions. Each family grouping, small and large, has at least one, and they are in many ways comparable to certain genres of Khe'drakha as performed by their northern neighbors. However, compared to Stenza chanting, Sandibari are capable of singing (within the constraints of their language and anatomy), and make use of it fairly extensively in their oral histories as a pneumonic device.
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