Unexpect -- In A Flesh Aquarium
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Topic: Unexpect -- In A Flesh Aquarium
Posted By: sean
Subject: Unexpect -- In A Flesh Aquarium
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:00
| I have a question about their album "In A Flesh Aquarium": does anyone know what language it is that they randomly go into in their songs? i know they're from Montreal but it doesn't look like French at all. If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it. |
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Posted By: Salviaal
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:11
| It could be either backwards French or Hungarian. |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:57
I thought i just couldn't understand what they were saying  .
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Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 12:41
| It could be Hopelandic... |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 13:10
well, that is true, but i read some of the lyrics and they were in some other language. as to the Hopelandic, I don't know if anyone besides Sigur Ros has adopted that. It'd be kind of funny though if more bands adopted new languages like that. |
ProgBagel wrote:Posted By: Fassbinder
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 13:54
Being totally unacquainted with the group, I checked what it supposed to be the lyrics (written)... out of pure curiosity...
It is both (at least, it contains some Hungarian words).
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:08
| listening to it right now for the first time. Freaking headcrushing stuff! |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:13
thanks for the help. I'm not too familiar with Hungarian which is why I had trouble figuring it out, and I don't speak French, but I can identify it, but I've never tried doing so backwards. |
Posted By: TalmLikeABalm
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:41
| I remember reading an interview where they said it was some language backwards possibly French and then they added their own grammar rules to it. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: November 04 2007 at 16:35
i just found that interview. Squonk Opera is totally unknown to me, but I've heard some songs from Magma a while ago. Not enough to really give a grounded opinion about it, but from what I remember it was quite weird and progressive. They created their own language too I think. That’s something we have in common. We sometimes use what we call the Siaknarf, which is inversed French. We started to use this tongue for phonetic motives. We wanted a language that sounded harsh, exotic and different so we inversed Molière’s tongue, changed some grammatical rules and bam! We had our own personal language. |