Aratouial Delafeld
Novice
If you haven't had a chance to listen to our first track from the show, here's a link to find it on whatever service you use. There's a short sample at the link but if you click through you can hear all 4 minutes.
https://soundtracks.lnk.to/wheeloftime
First impressions:
It comes across as truly global, to me. I'm a musician, and I couldn't immediately "place" the sound of this even though I listen to a lot of music from lots of non-Western traditions. I can point to "this sounds like _____" and "that is reminiscent of _____" but it's all blended together. To me, that really captures the world Robert Jordan created, and how cultures aren't 1-for-1 comparisons to ours, but a jumble. Japanese aesthetics with Texan drawls, ginger desert nomads ... this seems like the musical version of that.
I like that the lead vocals are a young woman in an alto range ... being a young(ish) alto myself, haha.
I'm assuming this is Old Tongue, since "al'naito" means "the Flame," but if this is an actual language and someone here understands it, please let me know. If it's the Old Tongue, somehow I didn't expect it to sound somewhat like Hebrew to me? Maybe that's just because I've studied a little Hebrew, though, and some of the sounds are familiar. Also, kudos to calling it "the Flame" because oh the layered meanings! The Flame and the Void AND The Flame of Tar Valon?
ETA:
Second impressions:
THIS SONG IS AN ABSOLUTE BANGER
I'm pretty sure it's just Old Tongue because a few of the words stuck out to me, notably machin, as in machin shin.
I've also done my best to phonetically transcribe it. I'm not a linguist so I'm not using anything standard, but I'm pretty sure I've approximated most of the sounds close enough to maybe help get to the actual lyrics. Do we have an Old Tongue expert floating around that could pick this apart?
https://soundtracks.lnk.to/wheeloftime
First impressions:
It comes across as truly global, to me. I'm a musician, and I couldn't immediately "place" the sound of this even though I listen to a lot of music from lots of non-Western traditions. I can point to "this sounds like _____" and "that is reminiscent of _____" but it's all blended together. To me, that really captures the world Robert Jordan created, and how cultures aren't 1-for-1 comparisons to ours, but a jumble. Japanese aesthetics with Texan drawls, ginger desert nomads ... this seems like the musical version of that.
I like that the lead vocals are a young woman in an alto range ... being a young(ish) alto myself, haha.
I'm assuming this is Old Tongue, since "al'naito" means "the Flame," but if this is an actual language and someone here understands it, please let me know. If it's the Old Tongue, somehow I didn't expect it to sound somewhat like Hebrew to me? Maybe that's just because I've studied a little Hebrew, though, and some of the sounds are familiar. Also, kudos to calling it "the Flame" because oh the layered meanings! The Flame and the Void AND The Flame of Tar Valon?
ETA:
Second impressions:
THIS SONG IS AN ABSOLUTE BANGER
I'm pretty sure it's just Old Tongue because a few of the words stuck out to me, notably machin, as in machin shin.
I've also done my best to phonetically transcribe it. I'm not a linguist so I'm not using anything standard, but I'm pretty sure I've approximated most of the sounds close enough to maybe help get to the actual lyrics. Do we have an Old Tongue expert floating around that could pick this apart?
no bahn aeh
sah ta eech (as in chet, from Hebrew)
oh ah bee yah y'saen ee(n?) tchai
so rrin day (slight rolled r )
mah tchaen dae
ah mee yah y'saen ee(n?) tchai
(repeat)
ah yeay sah ya sah tah yeay
ah (b/m?)ee quan dyo t'yo toh ben yeay
la ah d'yeay yehs dah een (this line is particularly hard for me)
ah dah vah los yeah dah mah doh
(repeat)
(repeat whole)
sah ta eech (as in chet, from Hebrew)
oh ah bee yah y'saen ee(n?) tchai
so rrin day (slight rolled r )
mah tchaen dae
ah mee yah y'saen ee(n?) tchai
(repeat)
ah yeay sah ya sah tah yeay
ah (b/m?)ee quan dyo t'yo toh ben yeay
la ah d'yeay yehs dah een (this line is particularly hard for me)
ah dah vah los yeah dah mah doh
(repeat)
(repeat whole)
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