{"id":979,"date":"2008-12-12T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:05:19","slug":"fun-with-phonemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Phonemes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since last week’s zungu-fest<\/a>, I’ve had my eyes peeled for similar (semi-)Swahili utterances. And whattaya know, scanning the tracklist for Taliesin’s Apricity mix<\/a> (which I recommend you listen to — it was a nice soundtrack this past Wednesday, when December actually felt like April<\/a>), I noticed that the jumpoff track was by a group called NGUZUNGUZU, so of course, I got quite curious. <\/p>\n

Given that the track was a remix by the homie, Kingdom<\/a>, I wrote and asked him about NGUZUNGUZU, so he pointed me to their MySpace<\/a> page and gave me an email address. Easy as that.<\/p>\n

Here’s their reply; I’m afraid it may disappoint some of us Swahili-seeking conspiracy theorists, but it’s an interesting bit of suggestive sonic overlap —<\/p>\n

We named ourselves NGUZUNGUZU after a type of wooden canoe prow carving from the Solomon Islands<\/a>. We liked the name firstly for its phonetics,when repeated rapidly it sounds like a digeridoo. And the idea of this guiding figure on our craft of sonic explorations. Something like a beacon, a navigational tool, a compass that points us in various directions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their music sounds nothing like Yellowman<\/a> or canoes, but I like it — all sorts of sounds and styles streaming into each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since last week’s zungu-fest, I’ve had my eyes peeled for similar (semi-)Swahili utterances. And whattaya know, scanning the tracklist for Taliesin’s Apricity mix (which I recommend you listen to — it was a nice soundtrack this past Wednesday, when December actually felt like April), I noticed that the jumpoff track was by a group called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mixx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}