Pook and Backwards Priests Was: wav.files

Hurray!  Someone who has heard of Jocelyn Pook!

Herman Miller wrote:

 When Stanley Kubrick
> >was walking through the set for _Eyes Wide Shut_ he heard one of his
> >actors
> >playing "Backwards Priests" on a CD, and he was so compelled by it that
> >he
> >coopted it for the famous scene.  That was the only part of the movie I
> >really
> >liked:  Tom Cruise enters as poseur into the private world of the
> >masked,
> >and that's the music that is being played.  It sounds like a Satanic
> >Mass, and I only put my finger on what was so deliciously disturbing
> >about
> >the music when I got Pook's CD:  the lyrics are sung backwards.  I can't
> >tell WHAT is being played backwards, probably Latin (since the rest of
>
> I bought the CD specifically for this piece: I thought it sounded like a
> recording played backwards when I heard it on the radio, so I was curious.
> I sampled it and played it back in reverse, but I didn't recognize the
> language. It sounds vaguely Slavic, I think.
Had you seen the movie?  It's not as noticeable in the movie, because
everyone is riveted on those naked women <G>!  (Me, I was riveted on the
naked women and their masks and HEAD-DRESSES!).  I would LOVE to hear
your
version of "Masked Ball" sampled backwards.  Anyway you can record it
and
make a link to it?  With copyright? <G>  Or just for us?  I had assumed
that
it was Greek or Latin.  I even tried to reverse it in my head.  It goes:

        nooooooooooWA.    Nowa naknuedo.  That's as far as I could get.

Turned around it's gibberish.  I think that first word is something like
"own," drawn out.

Sally

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