This is enchanting.
Hey, @AlicejustMay have a look at my jam... I think you may just like it.
And by the way, thanks for regularly introducing me to music I've never heard before.
@AlicejustMay Can you ever hear what they're singing? I've been listening to them for ages (well, among other things) and I think they must be singing in tongues, or something :) Lovely though.
@alisonsghost Elizabeth Fraser never really wrote lyrics as such - she used her voice more like an instrument than to deliver decipherable words; coming up with nonsense phrases that just 'sounded right'. But as you say, it sounds like singing in tongues; ethereally lovely. :)
@AlicejustMay That's very interesting. I really have been trying hard to make out words so it's a big relief too :).@AndyWilkinson I usually love song words but with her you're right. Was she the one who sang on 'Teardrop' for Massive Attack?
I heard an interview with David Bowie where he said he wrote down words/lines then cut them up and reassembled them into songs...Although I'd be surprised if this was true of everything he wrote. Seems a similar way of working somehow....
@alisonsghost More like the artist Tom Phillips, I always thought (having dabbled in art as a student etc) - there was a terrific documentary about Bowie in the 70s recring Young Americans, I tihnk, where he was perpetually high on coke and talked about the cut-up lines... ironic if you think about it :)
21 Comments (since 18 Nov 2013)
AlicejustMay
Was intent on spending a few hours on TIMJ yesterday... work got in the way. Damn.
BertrandRustles
Wonderful.
Marlboroman_Mat
This is enchanting. Hey, @AlicejustMay have a look at my jam... I think you may just like it. And by the way, thanks for regularly introducing me to music I've never heard before.
kemiladashdot
Like Waitrose you mean?
Bukowski
Wondrous.
AlicejustMay
@BertrandRustles @Bukowski It always makes me happy when you like my jams :)
AlicejustMay
@kemiladashdot Yes! Exactly like that.
AlicejustMay
Lovely of you to say so, @Marlboroman_Mat. Popping over for a listen now.
BertrandRustles
@AlicejustMay You give great Jams :)
Bukowski
@AlicejustMay I'm happy that you are happy. (now there's a Hallmark line waiting to happen!)
alisonsghost
@Bukowski A good one, though. Well for Hallmark...
alisonsghost
@AlicejustMay Can you ever hear what they're singing? I've been listening to them for ages (well, among other things) and I think they must be singing in tongues, or something :) Lovely though.
AlicejustMay
@alisonsghost Elizabeth Fraser never really wrote lyrics as such - she used her voice more like an instrument than to deliver decipherable words; coming up with nonsense phrases that just 'sounded right'. But as you say, it sounds like singing in tongues; ethereally lovely. :)
AndyWilkinson
Wonderful. Elizabeth Fraser has the most gorgeous voice. Who needs lyrics when her voice sounds so gorgeous. Great song title as well.
alisonsghost
@AlicejustMay That's very interesting. I really have been trying hard to make out words so it's a big relief too :).@AndyWilkinson I usually love song words but with her you're right. Was she the one who sang on 'Teardrop' for Massive Attack?
alisonsghost
I heard an interview with David Bowie where he said he wrote down words/lines then cut them up and reassembled them into songs...Although I'd be surprised if this was true of everything he wrote. Seems a similar way of working somehow....
AlicejustMay
@alisonsghost Yes - wasn't sure if it was Tracy Thorn, so just Wiki'd it. Apparently Madonna was very keen to sing on it!
AlicejustMay
@alisonsghost More like the artist Tom Phillips, I always thought (having dabbled in art as a student etc) - there was a terrific documentary about Bowie in the 70s recring Young Americans, I tihnk, where he was perpetually high on coke and talked about the cut-up lines... ironic if you think about it :)
alisonsghost
@AlicejustMay Really??? Madonna I mean. I was an art student, but there are a lot of us where I live. Very funny about the cut-up lines :)
alisonsghost
@AlicejustMay I just looked it up - glad Madonna didn't do it. I was very pleased when I finally worked out what that song meant.
d0minic
terrific jam, of course