Polly

So I guess the fact that Courtney is a total hottie has escaped you... sigh, too bad, old man. Have just placed 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia into the player table and cranked up the volume. Guess the Dandys aren't your scene, you're just not comfortable enough with your own masculinity.

:)

Oh, that's right, this is about Gregorian chant - excellent back ground music and so is Tibetan Throat singing - beautiful.

Check out:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktjUHjR6iU

Also fond of the Didge:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=DC9w4KWEgJE

There is a vibration common to Gregorian, Throat singing and didgeridoo. The Dandy's were simply my bait - and I GOTCHA, heh heh. (Although 'nietzsche' has a circular sound to it).

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=iEwoYK1kQR0

Frac... I checked out your links.. did an image search on Courtney T-T
Can't see anything about the Neitzche one to be excited about.

The didge one was great.. amazingly flexible instrument in the right hands.

but got distracted by the nice pins on the chick in the background :)

(Read Romans 7:21ff :)

So... lest I become as shallow as you :) (about your hottie) *grin* I left that one and checked out some other throat singing ones.. (no pins to distract me, just butt ugly blokes)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-QXyLSS20&feature=related pretty good...

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QfcrSml8gj0&feature=related
I have nooo idea how that bloke gets the high tones there..

As John Wesley observed a couple of centuries ago, "it's a pity that the devil has all the best tunes."

This has always seemed a little churlish to me, considering that the church had a stranglehold on the production and dissemination of music for centuries.

A normal family - as opposed to the aristocracy - could only hear good music on a regular basis in church. It was one of religion's biggest draw-cards for the best part of a millennium.

Also, according to Wikipedia, "very little non-Christian music from this period [fifth to seventeenth centuries] survived, due to its suppression by the Church and the absence of music notation"

So it is hardly surprising that one of the dominant musical forms has survived to the present day.

However, it says absolutely nothing "about the spiritual condition...longing...yearning.... thinking of the Westerner".

Just that we all like a good tune. Despite the fact that the best ones apparently belong to the devil.