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Posted: Nov. 09 2004, 20:56 |
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As far as I hear: 
Let There Be Light
"...power energized" [that robotic voice in the background]
In concerts, you can hear the beginning of this sample and I hear that as "Let's get power energized!"
"Burning, melting, dissolving" [said by probably the same woman]
"Dominus, mundus, salvus" [I bet the singer here is a treble-voiced older man - and indeed, David Nickless - who is mentioned on the cover - is a treble vocalist]
"Oh you, long live!" [it could be both a treble-voiced boy (but his voice refers to a younger man here) or a woman]
And of course the excerpts from the Bible by Bill Anders.
| Quote | | The woman's voice in "Only time will tell" and "Lament for Atlantis" is from a self-hypnosis tape created by Mike Joseph. |
Are you sure in that in case of OTWT? The questionable sample is very similar to the one Jarre used in his Miss Moon. I transcribed it as "Yee hee hee hee oh sa na woo ha mi ayoh co roy". Or do you think about the "Start" sample?
| Quote | | The choir in "Hibernaculum" is a monks' choir, or people resembling a monks' choir, whose name I'm unsure about |
They're The Tallis Scholars, take a look at their official homepage. They had a concert in Hungary recently.
| Quote | | the people in "A new beginning" sing a "Saami chant", as credited on the booklet, from some (documentary?) movie I don't really know anything more of |
A New Beginning is based on the polynesian Tubuai Choir's song called Vahine Taihara. You can even buy Polynesian Odyssey, the CD it is from. The Saami chant is Prayer for the Earth. "The Saami chant was performed by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää for the 1987 Norwegian film Ofelias (English title: The Pathfinder)." - from
Amarok discography. In fact, it's spelled as Ofelas. You can find a site about the performer, Valkeapää (TSODE is also mentioned there) and some information about Ofelas on All Movie Guide for example.
| Quote | | the women's voices in "Tubular world" and the man's holler in "Hibernaculum" sound to me like small samples from the same chant (the Saami one) |
Well, according to the samples you can listen to from Polynesian Odyssey, the "Tuki tai palama diap tani"-like women choir is probably from the same album but I don't think the man's also from there. He's probably Roame who is also mentioned on the cover. I don't know if it's him but maybe... I also hardly can imagine that the woman samples in Tubular World are the Tubuai Choir, she or they could be Cori Josias or/and Ella Harper. Anyway, they're both credited to the Beautiful World's album called In Existence. I transcribed the "lyrics" of Tubular World as "a world send 'secho icho'" or "a word sent: 'sechoicho'". But you can also hear something like "normi mors" near 1:37 by a man's choir.
And then there is the Verulam Consort, who are possibly in connection with this school.
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If I were music, I would be Enigmatism.
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The woman's voice in "Only time will tell" and "Lament for Atlantis" is from a self-hypnosis tape created by Mike Joseph. The choir in "Hibernaculum" is a monks' choir, or people resembling a monks' choir, whose name I'm unsure about [the whole of "Hibernaculum" being inspired by (or a parody of?) Enigma 
No, okay, of course it's not. I swear I didn't see the comment that says it's Polynesian. But they're both below the Equator, that's what matters... ... 