Nightnoise -'Fionnghuala' (Mouth Music) Live in Spain 1990

[MadTomOfBedlam]

@irisjuju i was a-wonderin to meself

[kantarellkvinnan]

You know it's time to shave all your hair off when the sideburnes are in front of your front cut ^^

[Elya08]

Heeh! Gaelic is awesome. Looks completely different from how it sounds.

[Danielsavi1]

Quisiera saber el significado. Gracias

[celticbre]

It's Gaidhlig (Scottish gaelic)

[PatchworkDream]

Just love the way this sounds-

[alonzogarbanzo]

Thank you. I had indeed Googled the lyrics a good while back, but the first hits didn't make that clear---after your advice I found a good translation and explanation. I must say, for a non-speaker the pronunciation is really daunting, and the spelling doesn't help us "gringos" much! Anywqay, thanks again. I'd been told wrongly by someone many years ago that it was "nonsense" syllables.

[alonzogarbanzo]

I've always understood "mouth music", as Fionnghuala is often called, to be using "nonsense" syllables to create a pleasing rhyhtmic refrain. So as a non-speaker of Gaelic I always wonder when hearing this piece, how much of what they sing is "scat" and how much is actual speech? Help requested from Gaelic speakers, please!

[roguelead72]

@alonzogarbanzo I actually believe that the Scots came up with this form of music to emulate their banned bagpipes, or at least that's the story I read somewhere.

[deathbybagpipes]

@roguelead72

Yes, for many of the old mouth-music/sean-nos tunes, that is true.

[astrowisk]

Yes, Gaelic. Slainte!

[Only4Russian]

Thanks for posting this!

[cwildeky]

Awesome. Thank you!

[Donegal]

Joder, si que tiene solera el video.. :)

[astrowisk]

Sí, y dudé antes de subir esta última serie de vídeos pero ¡es que no había nada de ellos!

[MKMcHenry]

Too bad the picture quality isn't better, but 5 stars for content. One of my favorites from Nightnoise. Thanks.