infundibulum

I usually skip these sorts of memes, but this one is pretty interesting:

How many languages in your music collection? (kottke.org)

Here’s what I came up with:

More than five
• tons of Brazilian Portuguese: Chico Buarque, bossa nova stuff, Caetano Veloso Marisa Monte…
• tons of Welsh: SFA, Gorky’s, Datblygu…
• a fair amount of Japanese: Cornelius, Shonen Knife, Takako Minekawa…
• French: Françoise Hardy, Gainsbourg…
• Cape Verde Creole: Cesaria Evora, Simentera

Just a few
• Hopi: The soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi (does that count?)
• Tuvan: some throat-singing stuff
• Amharic: Asnaqetch Werqu, Gigi, a couple other cds from the Ethiopiques series
• Malagasy: a band called Tarika
• Hungarian: Muszikas

(Don’t even get me started on the mp3s…)

Thank you for visiting my post full of indulgence and have a nice day.