for Equal Voices or Mixed Choir, Frame Drum, Synthesizer (Piano) and Improvised Instrumental solo. Yoik is a very old tradition amon the Sámi people of Scandanavia and Russia. The Sámis themselves say that the Yoik has no beginning and no end. The Yoik often describes a specific person, emotion or other element of nature and does so with very little use of words. (4:40)