Re: Jon Anderson a conlanger?

Don't forget Siggur Ros, form Iceland with their
invented language, Vorlanska.

Adam

--- John Schlembach <bachalon@...> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP
> James Blish
> > -----
> > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui?
> > You ask, what is the most important thing?
> > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
> > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
> >
>

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