guitar Christer Bo Bothen - electric bass clarinet, dozo n'koni, ganga Unni Shael Damslora - claypot (udu), darbuka, tambourine, seed rattles, cymbal Tellef Kvifte - clarinet, piano Roger Ludvigsen - guitar, breath, piano, frame drum, saz Ale Möller - drone drum, hammered dulcimer, bouzouki, overtone flute Gjermund Silseth - bells, bass, piano Leiv Solberg - bass Carlos Zamata Quipse - quena, breath, charango, antara Reception and legacy The AllMusic review awarded the album 5 stars. In 2003, the musicologist Olle Edström called the album's lyrics "still highly political", but noted that the music had changed, with folk musicians from Sweden, Peru and elsewhere, making the album "World music", or more precisely in Edström's characterisation "a mixture of rock with quasi-West-African rhythms, with short phrases sung in a kind of Sami/Native North-American technique and with rather few harmonies or drone-like harmonies". In his view, the musical forms are simple, with "the musicians playing 'ethnic' instruments such as the West African drums, mbira, Greek bouzouki, etc". He describes her singing style as "a special 'ethnic' voice technique of her own" that "reminds Samish listeners in part of traditional jojk technique and convinces European listeners that it is". Silje F. Erdal, for Norway's FolkMusikk organisation, described the album as Boine's breakthrough, especially when Peter Gabriel re-released it on his Real World label. She noted that it was commissioned for the Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhter theatre, and that the title song "Gula Gula", with its call to "hear the voices of the tribal mothers", has an "obvious feminist message". It won a Norwegian Grammy award (Spellemanprisen) in 1989. Merlyn Driver, writing for Songlines thirty years after the album's release, comments that "If you’ve heard of just one Sámi musician, it's probably Mari Boine", and that her voice "a bewitching combination of melancholy, vulnerability and strength, has never sounded more impressive than on Gula Gula". The title song formed the first (instrumental) track of the Norwegian jazz musician Jan Garbarek's 1990 album I Took Up the Runes. The contemporary reviewer Jim Aikin called the track "especially memorable". References External links – lyrics of all tracks in English, Northern Sámi, and Norwegian 1989 albums World music albums by Norwegian artists