What is the immediate context of the recording? Describe the general character of what you hear?
What will be an ideal response?
• The pasibutbut is sung in agricultural ritual at the start of the New Year by six or more men who don traditional robes and face inward as the music forms an offering designed to satisfy the Sky God, Dehanin.
• Unaccompanied male voices begin singing long tones, entering in staggered entrances with each other. The voices enter singing at different intervals; sometimes blending with each other in consonant intervals, sometimes clashing with each in dissonant intervals.
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