Massed Orgosolo whole-school - Ta Taju Meu / Buleru (1956)

Here is a rare recording that was superlatively hidden in the hard-to-find Italian Folklore archive. These recordings are very very rare, and aren't findable on any buyable CD's, which sucks. This is why I'm trying to reach a much wider audience and to bridge the Italian to English-speaking gap with very unique and cool music which is often overlooked and wrongly kept secret.
This is a recording of a rare large Sardinian throat-singing ensemble from Orgosolo, Nuoro, Sardinia, recorded on May 10, 1956. Unfortunately, none of the recordings' titles or descriptions whatsoever ever mention names, only places and whether it's a trio, quartet, etc. So, unfortunately we only know the voice parts. Most throat-singing groups consist of a shepherd voice that sings the words, a goat-voice, a sheep and a cow, representative of different animals being taken care of by a shepherd - as Sardinia has a very strong pastoral connection.
Historically, Sardinian throat-singing was taught in schools. This is one of a few examples on the Sardinia page which is actually more than a quartet. In fact, it's an entire school, with one shepherd (perhaps the teacher), clearly several goats, one or more sheep and at least one cow, maybe more. It's very interesting to hear more than one of each animal-voice, usually there is just only one of each. The one cow that is clearly able to be heard through the other voices sounds particularly young, maybe he was just a young boy at that time. Unfortunately we won't ever know for sure, unless we have relatives of any of these singers still living, but I doubt that's likely.
The first part of this song probably has one of the catchiest lines repeated by the animal voices twice to finish each phrase, sometimes with the shepherd singing with them for the first time. I don't speak Italian let alone Sardinian, so I don't even know what this means, but the title says "Ta taju meu", or sometimes "Sta taju meu" (with an S at the beginning), which is the very catchy line. Feel free to sing along with it! You will notice that in addition to the multiple goats and sheep, they have two shepherd singers, the first one being more vocally dexterous than the second, and the two of them alternate with each other. After several "Ta Taju Meu" phrases, they end with a a Bizet-style Carmen-like bolero rhythm, started by the cow, or perhaps more like the "calf", in these instances.