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Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: July 22 2007, 02:19 Personally, I pronounce my 'R's, but I think Brits sometimes drop theirs, no? So, is it just meaningless syllables - "So fa so", or is it "So far so"? And if it's the latter, what is it that's "So far"? Or might it be referencing the phrase "So far so good"? -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

onion Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: July 2005 Posted: July 22 2007, 02:28 Dont hang me up on this....but isn´t it in zulu - african chanting...so the words are meaningless in english?? Mike -------------- Are soft boiled eggs supposed to make a crunchy noise when you eat them? Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: July 22 2007, 07:47 It has been suggested that it's solfege syllables, thus so fa so, though of course the solfege doesn't match the actual notes being sung. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: July 23 2007, 02:04 Ah. Zulu and Solfege - two interesting possibilities that hadn't occurred to me. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 23 2007, 18:52 "So" is one of the recurring syllabic words of Amarok (as the first two letters of "SOndela", and of "SOlta" at the very start of Lion, 19'57''; also, repeated in Far Dip under the Morse code, 48:07), another one being of course "Happy?". So I guess that "So fa so" is just a form of vocalization based on "So". In their 2005 transcription, Scot & EeToN wrote it as "So Far So". But I think that if Mike really wanted to include the words "So far" in such a way that they actually made sense, he would've surely made a much better job of it, don't you think? @ Onion: Only the word "Sondela" and what comes after it in the very last section of Amarok are in Xhosa/Zulu. So maybe So Fa So is an Adiemus-style phonetical imitation of Xhosa? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

AlexS Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: Nov. 2005 Posted: July 24 2007, 09:32 First time I heard it I thought it sounded like "arseh*le"!! -------------- http://www.thelightdream.net http://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/ Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Aug. 26 2007, 16:16 In sheet music for Elements The best Of Mike Oldfield, the words are written so far. So I guess it's English, although, as we know, SO isn't always followed by FAR and vice versa. It's a nice piece of sheet music by the way. Bass lines and guitar solos for Moonlight Shadow, To France and other songs are actually notated in their entirety. Back to top

sohfar Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: May 2004 Posted: Jan. 27 2012, 19:09 Hello Every one..  Ahh Ah Ahh Ah.     I think this link is correct for the spelling of the solfa :- http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaur....-scale. sohfar I guess I will have to change my username    Ahh Ah Ahh Ah. -------------- HEALTH WARNING This record could be hazardous to the health of cloth-eared nincompoops. If you suffer from this condition, consult your Doctor immediately. Back to top

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