an Amis chant (“Weeding and Paddyfield Song No. 1”) sung by folk music duo Difang and Igay Duana opens the song and is repeated throughout. Hailing from Taiwan, these Amis musicians were in a cultural exchange program in Paris in 1988 when their performance of the song was recorded by the Maison des Cultures du Monde and later distributed on CD.
This song popped into my head earlier and took me a while to look up. Throwback song for many of us Millennials.
IIRC, Enigma got their butts sued off for this.
Yup, but I could only find it on a GeoCities site. Lol
https://www.geocities.ws/enigmalair/rtiarticle1.html
28 March 1998 Taiwan Headline News
Taipei, March 28 (CNA) Lawyers for a Taiwan aboriginal couple have filed a copyright infringement suit in the United States against the German pop music group Enigma, related US and German record companies, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), legal sources in Taipei reported on Saturday.
A 90s kid always seeing this song on a compilation cd. AYYYYYOOOOOYAAAAAAAOOOAAAAAA
One of my proudest moments was googling “what song goes AYAYAYYYYOAYYAYYAY” and being directed to a random forum where this was asked and correctly answered. :) Ah happy times.
