23 MP3s of Wild and Wooly Vocal Stylings

In honor of Donna's return to WFMU weekly schedule (Wednesday's 3 - 6pm, beginning June 15th), here are the MP3s of her 2001 marathon premium, Babble. She described it this way:

All manner of vocal stylings, ranging from Ethiopian herdsmen serenading their cow's udders to avant garde types with microphones lodged in their esophaguses.

1  Transmission (excerpt) - Willem de Ridder
2  Quanatyug - M. Quayutinuag & M Tavaluk
3  Crirythme 67 - Francois Dufrene
4  Alphabox - Jeremy Adler
5  Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool - Manchurek Khen
6  Anthropologie - Pierre Garnier
7  Rain Dreaming Ceremony - Aboriginal Music
8  Rumore d'Ombra - Angio Loratatino
9  Demonstration of the Daahi - Fulbe Cowherders (Burkina Faso)
10 Lip Sustain - Kirk Nurack
11 Temtem - Ilse_Garnier
12 Oscibil - Enzo Minarelli
13 Payekea - The Wayapi (Guyana)
14 Blessing - The Hamar (South Ethiopia)
15 Le Temps Aujourd'hui - Henri Chopin
16 Song For Gathering Mushrooms - Baka Pygmies (Cameroon)
17 Milking Song - Tigre Speaking Chief (Zula, Ethiopia)
18 L'airs - Santo S.A.
19 Reviens - Ghedalia Tazartes
20 Ke Keekee Alahboo - Bliem Kern
21 Women Singing and Clapping - Kung Bushmen (Kalahari Desert)
22 Prostration Ceremony - Phyag' Chatba (Tibet)
23 Finale - Stein Hanson

And if you've enjoyed these tracks, why not take a trip down the vocal cords with The Larynx Movie, courtesy of archive.org. It's safe for work, as long as your co-workers actually believe you when you tell them that the image on your screen is really a larynx.

Comments

[poesboes]

Great collection!

Thanks Ken, keep 'em coming, jewels like these!

(Couldn't resist deciphering track 11. Right channel contains a story in French about the formation of the statesform of the republic in classic history (pardon my French?).
It's reversed and at double speed; like a tape channel beeing picked up from the wrong tape direction, recorded at lower speed...)

[Oddio Katya]

Gorgeous collection, Ken! Thank you so much!

No matter how often I hear it or how many times it is explained to me, two tone throat singing just blows my mind. The sounds from Mr. Manchurek Khen do not sound human. And pygmies - wow, the Cameroon pygmies make such etherial vocal music.

Inspiring. Thanks, again.

[Lewis]

'Milking Song - Tigre Speaking Chief' ..... bwhahahahahahaha! Are you sure thats a milking situation? Makes me think of Scotsmen and sheep....