Re: OT-- Sigur Ros

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# Spotted this in the NYTimes, Sunday 1-/27:
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# QUOTE
# In skeptical, self-conscious times, Sigur Ros offers reverence without
# religion and grandeur without guilt.  Its songs are processionals and
# elegies, and a single one can stretch as long as 13 minutes on the band's
# third album "( )" (MCA/Universal)...due for release on
# Tuesday.....(snip)...[In previous albums] Mr. Birgisson sang in Icelandic
# about war, elves, sin, salvation and being born.  But the eight songs on
# ( )" are untitled and sung in an invented languages he calls Hopelandic....
# ENDQUOTE
#
# Sounds rather interesting.....is anyone familiar?
#

Sigur Ros is indeed an amazing band. Their last album Agaetis Byrjun was
great also, and I recomend anyone and everyone to pick it up.

However, I had read an article somewhere (dont know how reliable it is) that
the "invented language" isnt so much a language as it is gibberish, aparently
stemming from the fact that the lyrics are sometimes unfinished, and the singer
will just sorta make speech noises where the "missing" lyrics are supposed to
go.

-tim
http://www.zece.com/conlang/

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