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[NMV03] Oral Bass!

[NMV03] Oral Bass!

This is the third part of my Non-Mainstream Vocals series. Twelve tracks from Hungary introducing you to traditional Vlax Romani oral bass! (It also includes a Beás song.)

Here is an English-language description of oral bass from ROMBASE:
http://ling.kfunigraz.ac.at/~rombase/cgi-bin/art.cgi?src=data/music/instr/bumb.en.xml

Illustration of the mouth by Duncan Kenneth Winter, CC license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

4 comments

tzniuswarrior

I've just found this video, oral bass + cajón (!) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6EXSRDlBkg&feature=related

tzniuswarrior

Glad to have been of service :]

tamf

yay, you're back! and i learned the term for something i adore!

tzniuswarrior

My other mixes in this series:

NMV01 - Index - http://8tracks.com/tzniuswarrior/non-mainstream-vocals-01
NMV02 - Central Asian music - http://8tracks.com/tzniuswarrior/nmv02-central-asian-music

I also have several Gypsy mixes with various themes, this one seems underappreciated -
http://8tracks.com/tzniuswarrior/childrens-day-mix--muro-shavo-muri...

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