Re: Conlangs in music
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 30, 2005, 22:13 |
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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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