I Let My Fists Do The Talkin’

Starting around 20 minutes ago started hearing a woman’s voice chanting and singing really loud—like she was right outside my window (I live on the top floor, so that would mean she could fly or at least hover). It almost sounded like a call to prayer, but clearly a woman’s voice and the long held notes were interspursed with “boolla-boolla-boollaaaa” chanting and shouting.

I kept trying to think of the word for the kind of singing it sounded like. West African praise singing*? Is that it? Wikipedia is no help so I assume it has a different name. Anyway, not what I usually hear in the apartment.

I thought, Bill must be editing something weird for Jon Benjamin, but he’s not here. It really is some woman outside the window singing from another roof top. It’s so dark out, I can’t see anything, but it sounds like the voice is in my apartment its so loud.

I might be killed by the ghost of World Music tonight!

Wikipedia didn’t help on African music genres, but I found THIS instead.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 20th, 2007 at 11:05 pm and is filed under Progress.