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

> From: Markus Miekk-oja
>
> > 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?
That would be Scatman John (John Larkin).  Passed away about 2 years ago
I believe.

Stay curious,
David

David E. Bell
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