Re: Jon Anderson a conlanger?

If you're interested in conlangs in music, there's a French band called
Magma that sang in a conlang about the chronicles of an alien race.

To a much lesser degree, there's a Japanese drum 'n' bass duo called the
Ruins that cite Magma as a large influence (though their singing is just
nonsense).

Good stuff.


On 12/20/05, Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> wrote:
>
> I think it's probably Gibberish, the language spoken by the Gibbers, an
> alas-not-yet-extinct human subspecies. ;)
>
> Rock singers seem to do a lot of this, making up words for their sounds.
> Perhaps we should collect the lot and try to regularize them into some
> form
> of morphology/syntax, etc?  (Publish a book on Gibberish, the language
> spoken
> by the Gibbers, with all the appropriate scholarly apparatus, etc? ;)
>
> Wesley Parish
>
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:38, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> > Hallo!
> >
> > Those who say that Freddie Mercury was the best rock singer
> > of all times probably don't know who Jon Anderson is.
> > I have never ever heard another voice like his.
> >
> > In the lyrics of Jon Anderson's solo album _Olias of Sunhillow_
> > (1976) I found the following:
> >
> > DO GA DO RIYTAN SHA TOO RAYTAN
> >
> > GAN MATTA SHA PA
> > MUTTO MATTO
> >
> > RADAN ATTO RADDAN ATTO
> > STOU TO MUTTO SHA GO TEKA
> > SHA GO TEKA DEI
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea what language that is, or did Jon
> > make it all up?  A conlang would make perfect sense, since
> > it's a tale of refugees from a doomed planet.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Jörg.
>
> --
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> -----
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> You ask, what is the most important thing?
> Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
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>

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