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High Voltage (Emotions Part 2)

Invisibilia

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It Makes Us Want to Take a Head

Anthropologist rinado did interviews with members of whatever group he was studying. The tapes you hear in this piece are from his collection of the ilingot. One evening when he was sitting with the tribe, some one asked if he could play them a tape. They smiled as they heard themselves sing and talkbut then the voice of a man who had recently died began to play. He was an elder who had been deeply loved and respected by the tribe but had died suddenly. And out of turn before his older brother. This is what they told him over and over: It makes us want to take a head. Makes us want totake a head. We ne to take a

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