A journey in the “Yoikscape” Lawra Somby and Sara Marielle Gaup are two young Saami (Sapmi, Samiland) chanting “yoiks” who explore new forms between traditional and innovative way of singing. Yoiks are lyrical-musical forms which do not only describe creatures, things, people or experiences: in the Sami culture THEY also ARE these things. In this way, the power of singing yoiks is also the power of evocation and the power of communicating something hidden to a community listening for them. Yoiks were associated to shamanistic practices for many centuries, and were pursued by Church and missionaries as evil expressions of…