Comments on: Faroe (Part III): Native Tongue

By: Sam

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:33:35 +0000

Let my people go.

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By: Lee

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:23:17 +0000

I wonder if it’s only the aural qualities of a language that make song-writing in what isn’t your mother tongue so very difficult. With rare exceptions even the most fluent non-native speaker – even a speaker raised as bi- or multi-lingual – doesn’t navigate each language in quite the same way, with quite the same facility. I think it takes a particularly gifted writer like Nabokov to accomplish this. If you try to translate poetry, you will find that of course the music of the language – rhythm, cadence, types of consonants etc. etc. – is almost impossible to reproduce, but the nuances of meaning and association as well.

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By: Valerie

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:31:25 +0000

Thanks, Nico! How fascinating. I already loved the Desert Music and am now excited to discover Sigur Ros and Teitur. I already have some music from the Faroe Islands- Villu Veski and Tiit Kalluste (sort of jazz/folk/with minimalist elements) and I also love Gjallarhorn from Finland, amongst others.

Loved the sunrise photos too. There’s a magic about these Nordic places…

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