Speaking of Canadian science, folk singer and former Canadian government scientist recently lost his position for this song:

Nice cover! I watched the video without reading the blurb and thought the Massive Attack tag was added just because the kick and snare were like Teardrop but they were actually intending to quote it. I'd love to see a full version of Teardrop done by them.

(But only after I confer with the lead singer and get her to sing the correct 8th-8th-maj7th-5th-min7th on the words 'gentle emotion' instead of the 8th-8th-min7th-5th-min7th that she sang. I guess I'll forgive her for now.. )

And I thought 'they' had outgrown that label by now.
I wouldn't even have guessed that this was the same band as above:



(Although technically, it seems to be the singer's solo project nowadays.)

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Soriah-Tuvan-Throat-Singer

Invocations (related=http://videosift.com/video/Soriah-Tuvan-Throat-Singer) cannot be called by iaui because iaui is not privileged - sorry.

That singer is awful. The hurdy-gurdy and the bagpipes work well though.

The singer looks like a Deus Ex: Human Revolution villain.

I know you were being honest. I think you missed the historical, cultural and personal meaning of the moment in a way that detracts from the significance. And starting low was the point, I think -- this is the tradition, isn't it, of low slow hymns that come from deep experience?

Sometimes it just isn't the time to make a joke. Comedy is tragedy plus time, as the saying goes. We are in the midst of tragedy. Too soon, I think, and coming from the wrong color skin.

[Coming back to clarify -- indeed it is the imperfections of his singing that brought even more resonance. Singing in front of a worldwide audience, when you aren't a singer? It is the imperfections that highlight the humanity. Who cares about perfection when your soul calls out for grace? Isn't that the point?]

It's Gao...not Goa. They may have been living there at the time but they are definitely singing in a Timbuktu dialect which I'm guessing is where they, or at least the singer, is from.

Al Hassidi Terrei is loosely translated 'Extremist People'

The songs lyrics are a bit difficult to take apart beause the music garbles them a bit and they are a mixture of basic West African French and the Songhai Timbuktu Dialect which I'm less familiar with then Gao dialect.

In short though "Al Hassidi Terrei mind your own business, ...then something about the meeting of life, love and wives (or generally women)....and then we're not tired (or poor/beaten down).

and repeat...

So, apparently she is a singer in a band of ex burlesque dancers whose biggest hit was "don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me".

And now she's on Conan schilling for the living embodiment of what's wrong with music today....

My sympathy, she does not have it.

I think she has a nice voice, but i didn't enjoy the cover.. it's one of those uncoverable ones, for me. Banjo often sounded cheery which was weird with the lyrics and sentiment of the song. But clearly a very talented singer.

Voice sounds like what popular band or singer. Can't put my finger on it.
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Was thinking Kate Bush

Nightwish used to be my favorite band as a teenager. I stopped listening to them about the time they gained mainstream popularity, when they released two albums I didn't like very much and then got a new lead singer who had a very different voice. I recently found out that they have yet again changed their singer and I really like their new album. She has an amazing voice, which in my opinion fits their sound much better than the previous one.

Some of my favorite songs :

http://videosift.com/video/Nightwish-Sleeping-sun
http://videosift.com/video/Nightwish-Elvenpath-Live
http://videosift.com/video/Nightwish-Nemo-2004
http://videosift.com/video/Nightwish-Over-The-Hills-And-Far-Away

Does something like this sound better because psychologically you know it's a direct recording of the singer's voice vibrated and etched onto that surface or does it actually sound better acoustically? Obviously, you'd have to ignore all the crackles.

I think the black and white backup singer came in late on the 5th bar.