In this wide-ranging conversation with yoiker, legal scholar and artist Ánde Somby, Sámi Ritmmat explores the intersection of sound, sovereignty and storytelling in Sámi musical life. From his childhood in Sirbma to collaborations with symphony orchestras and cross-cultural ensembles, Somby has carried forward two distinct yoik traditions—his father’s tundra-rooted herder’s yoik, and his mother’s narrative village yoik—merging them with new contexts and questions.

What kind of rhythm lives inside a yoik? Can rhythm be thought of as a legal language or a tool of resistance? What happens when ancestral practices meet contemporary forms, and how do we sense the Sámi drum—as instrument, archive, and imagined future?

Sámi Ritmmat host, drummer and researcher Jakop Janssønn invites Somby into dialogue on javzan, law and rhetoric, ensemble intuition, and the sonic traces of Sámi thought. Together they listen toward rhythm not only as musical pulse, but as cultural memory and structural insight.

In English.

Link to playlist on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7scgigQw0SIEsfKSnnMvq9?si=cb91dc4526334c40

Photo: Knut Åserud

Logo: Peter Knudsen

Music by: Filip Hauan

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