the whole of Bjork's Medulla is composed of only mouth sounds. it's quite amazing. mind you, like me, she's taken tiny pieces of her voice and other peoples' voices and turned them into all sorts of other sounds. so sometimes you're probably thinking, "there's no way that's made of a voice," but it all is. it's very much different from all her other work.
yes, it is me throat singing. my dad got me into it by showing me these Tuvan throat singers, who write their music as messages to the wind and rivers and mountains and so on. i'm not very good at it, but find that rhythmically i can achieve a pretty neat didgeridoo-type sound. there's much more to it than i have time to concern myself with, and by no means call myself a throat singer.
i unfortunately do not have an external hard drive to back up all my stuff. see, i'm the stereotypical broke-ass musician that when he does have money, blows it on instruments, food, coffee, and cigarettes (and bills and rent of course), and sometimes i don't think about the things i REALLY need (ie. external hard drive), which of course bites me in the ass on a regular basis. i'm currently in search of work too, which makes this problem more apparent in my life... but you know, whatever. i think i have some luck coming my way....
what kind of music do YOU make, Erica?
-z.
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