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caddymanPah.
When you go to the effort of buying Hungarian Prog (as part of my great tour of the world by CD), it comes as something of a disappointment to hear them singing in English. Still, the lyric isn't as bad as some written by native English speakers.
Anekdoten and a bunch of other Scandinavian bands sing in English too. I wish they wouldn't sometimes. Nordman are unashamedly, comprehensively and incomprehensibly (incomprehensively?) Swedish, which means that their lyrics could be shite, but to those stout monoliguists among us, the words are just another instrumental sound and that works fine.
Oh. I typed too soon. This track is in Hungarian. I suppose I should have known, with a track name like ösz. This is all quite nice actually. It has a sort of sub-Renaissance feel, though the female vocalist isn't as powerful as the great Annie Haslam, but then so few are. On the other hand, she does rejoice in the name Völgyessy Szomor Fanni.
Try saying that to your aunt.
To complete tonight's musical odyssey, I shall give a listen to Shylock's Ile de Fièvre. As the title suggests, they are of the French persuasion. Their other album, Gialorgues is a rather splendid instrumental effort and I have high hopes for this one, too.
When you go to the effort of buying Hungarian Prog (as part of my great tour of the world by CD), it comes as something of a disappointment to hear them singing in English. Still, the lyric isn't as bad as some written by native English speakers.
Anekdoten and a bunch of other Scandinavian bands sing in English too. I wish they wouldn't sometimes. Nordman are unashamedly, comprehensively and incomprehensibly (incomprehensively?) Swedish, which means that their lyrics could be shite, but to those stout monoliguists among us, the words are just another instrumental sound and that works fine.
Oh. I typed too soon. This track is in Hungarian. I suppose I should have known, with a track name like ösz. This is all quite nice actually. It has a sort of sub-Renaissance feel, though the female vocalist isn't as powerful as the great Annie Haslam, but then so few are. On the other hand, she does rejoice in the name Völgyessy Szomor Fanni.
Try saying that to your aunt.
To complete tonight's musical odyssey, I shall give a listen to Shylock's Ile de Fièvre. As the title suggests, they are of the French persuasion. Their other album, Gialorgues is a rather splendid instrumental effort and I have high hopes for this one, too.
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Date: 2003-08-18 06:23 pm (UTC)My music tastes are quite broad, but also rather insular insofar as the less western the music is, the less I am to like it.
Shame really, I'm sure there's some good stuff out there, but Asian and Eastern styles just sound too horribly tinny and twangy for me.
I like folk music a great deal. But there's a lot of drivel out there, and a lot of that little Balkan stuff I have heard is a little too alien for my ears.