Sumut

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Sumut
Studio album by Sume
Released 1973 (1973)
Recorded March 1973 at Rosenberg Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Progressive rock, hard rock, folk rock
Length 39:15
Language Kalaallisut
Label Demos
Producer Karsten Sommer
Sume chronology
Sume
(1973)
Innuit Nunnat
(1974)

Sumut is the debut album of Greenlandic rock band Sume. It was released in 1973 on the Danish record label Demos.

Allegedly the album was purchased by 20 percent of the Greenlandic population becoming an important part of the Greenlandic movement for cultural independence of Denmark.[1] The band was inspired by American rock, but sang in the Greenlandic language and their lyrics were progressive and critical of the Danish colonial power.

Cover art

The cover showed a reproduction of a woodcut made by the artist Aron of Kangeq in 1860 that depicts a scene from Greenlandic myth in which the legendary figure Qasapi has just cut the arm of the dead body of the Norsemen chief Uunngortoq [2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Malik Høegh and Per Berthelsen, except where noted. 

Side one
No. TitleTitle in danish Length
1. "Pivfît nutât"  Nye tider 3:23
2. "Upernâĸ"  Forår 3:14
3. "Pilerineĸ-tikíneĸ"  Forventning/ankomst 5:25
4. "Tamorassâriat"  Den første bid af sælen 1:38
5. "Ilivnut pulavdlunga"  Kravle ind i mit indre 3:04
6. "Erĸigsineĸ sapĩnarama"  Uro 3:10
Side two
No. TitleTitle in danish Length
7. "Erĸasûteĸarneĸ"  Bekymring 2:41
8. "Heimaey erĸaivdlugo" (Høegh, Berthelsen, Fleischer, Hammeken)Ode til Heimaey 4:39
9. "Imigagssaĸ" (Høegh, Berthelsen, Ungak)Ildvand 4:39
10. "Ukiaĸ"  Efterår 5:05
11. "Nalunaerasuartaut toĸuvoĸ"  Telegrafen er død 3:37

Personnel

Additional musicians

Production

References

  1. Bours, Etienne (2000). "Sealskin Hits". In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.). World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Rough Guides. p. –145. ISBN 1-85828-636-0.
  2. Otte, Andreas. 2014. “The music in Greenland and Greenland in the music – Globalization and performance of place.” Copenhagen: GAGA-Productions. www.greenlandicpopularmusic.com, p. 16
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