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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anybody else find this somewhat disturbing or odd or something?
It's the Carmina Slovenica, Karmina ilec
And, well I love that women are making great music and all that, but with the bare feet and the synchronized choreography it all seems strange.
Maybe I'm getting old. But it seems somehow....odd.
Croney
(4,670 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,576 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Lulu KC
(2,574 posts)Then it just turned into girl power to the max! I need a translation.
Lulu KC
(2,574 posts)I just googled adiemus--another whole thing! Thanks for sharing this. Karl Jenkins, Welsh.
Although I must admit, when I read the lyrics I could only think Esperanto.
Talitha
(6,617 posts)IIRC it's just a bunch of words that all end in vowels, meant to sound melodic and represent a combination of Celtic and African music. Can't remember where I heard this, might have been NPR.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)As someone that appreciates reason, art frightens and confuses me.
vimeo.com/133414453
DFW
(54,437 posts)When I was in college, we had a balalaika orchestra, and some of the students had spent time in the Balkans and learned some of the music from that area. It originally stems from the fact that women used to work the fields, and sang together as they worked. If you want to get completely mesmerized, listen to this from Bulgaria (do yourself a favor, you've never heard ANYTHING like this!):
Here is the same song in a different key (with two men, which I have never seen except in Croatia), in traditional peasant costumes of Bulgaria's various regions.
Here is Song of Shapska (from a live performance on Johnny Carson, of all places), and you can just visualize the women working in the fields singing in unison to not go crazy with their monotonous back-breaking work:
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)DFW
(54,437 posts)You could have heard a pin drop.
ornotna
(10,807 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)"Twirl our right feet now"
Is it something along those lines?
2naSalit
(86,781 posts)I performed in choir when I was in college and we had some interesting pieces with choreography. I like this one, it's like chanting. I have close friends from the Balkans and have heard quite a bit of their music, this is only reminiscent of the majority of it but it's good.
oasis
(49,408 posts)Donkees
(31,454 posts)This is the song 'Adiemus'
treestar
(82,383 posts)pretty awesome. Looks like a cultural group.