This is Nadia singing the first of two Algerian folk songs. The song, about three mountains, told the tale of how the three tribes of Algeria were formed. Nadia punctuated each line with an unusual two-noted kind of soft yelp, pitched slightly higher than the rest of the song. I'd heard it before earlier in the year, but can't remember where. Nadia told me the sound replicates the echo around the mountains.
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