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Re: Conlangs in music

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Friday, December 30, 2005, 22:13
John Schlembach wrote:
>Please do, as one John to another. ;-)
The Gibberish examples? OK. First, Mike Oldfield's "Hergest Ridge pt 2" has some choral babbling by Clodagh Simmonds. It goes on quite a while, but seems like to be improvised on the spot. She has a similar appearence again on "Ommadawn pt 1", with short repeating lyrics - but it's mostly bad Irish this time (or so I'm told...) The album's sleeve notes transcribe it as "Ab yul / ann I dyad awt / En yab na / log a toc na awd / Taw may on / Ommadawn egg kyowl / Omma dawn egg kyowl". Jean-Michel Jarre's "Diva" also has a Gibberish section, sung by Laurie Anderson. It's mostly incoherent babbling and ahhhs, but at some points it does slightly resemble actual words. ..Uh, I know I have more, but I cannot remember right now; so (hopefully) more on this later. John Vertical

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