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Brilliant. Also Sigur Rós and Richard Feynman.

• paul_f 6y ago
  If I remember correctly, Sigor Ros created a new language whereas this is intentional gibberish.
  • hhas01 6y ago
    I believe it’s gibberish too†: https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php what language does jónsi sing in? on von, ágætis byrjun and takk, jónsi sang most songs in icelandic but a few of the songs were sung in 'hopelandic'. all of the vocals ( ) are however in hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska in icelandic) is the 'invented language' in which jónsi sings before lyrics are written to the vocals. it's of course not an actual language by definition (no vocabulary, grammar, etc.), it's rather a form of gibberish vocals that fits to the music and acts as another instrument. jónsi likens it with what singers sometimes do when they've decided on the melody but haven't written the lyrics yet. many languages were considered to be used on ( ), including english, but they decided on hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska) got its name from first song which jónsi sang it on, hope (von). tracks 7-9 on takk are in hopelandic. -- † which doesn’t bother me as I can’t understand the words to most songs anyway:)