Re: Enya in Quenya (and other conlang music)?

> My first guess was that this pertained to that other sort of scat
> with sites devoted to which the Internet is so replete, though the
> .gov domain seemed to cast doubt on that, & even though on
> checking the site I see that it is not indecent or going to put
> me off my lunch, I'm still not sure what its 'scat' means. Is
> is from 'scatter' in some statistical sense?
It's a jazz term - improvising imitations of instruments (mostly horns and
trumpets and such), using sounds like
de bap bop ba do wop and similar gibberish =).

Scatman was a jazz artist who tried this style in techno music. I've heard
some rumours saying he's dead by now, does anyone know?

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