First encountering this set in the ´70´s was a delirious ride of discovery, and triggered a prolonged exploration of the interface between this music and the early Southern US field recordings of African Americans by John Lomax. Many of the latter captured vestigial performances of what must have been the reworkings in English of musics not yet entirely forgotten before waves of mass culture washed away deeply imprinted group memories. As you listen to the EL Molo Hippo Song, put away notions of the primitive, and think instead of art, not as an ethereal supra-reality, but a thing as integral to life as the hunt, the food preparation, and the star gazing。