Puirt a beul, Scottish Mouth Music, Quadriga Consort, Elisabeth Kaplan, Laurenz Schiffermüller

[@dareisaya]

Watched this so many times. It's oddly uplifting that sounds so beautiful can come from human beings.

[@iberius9937]

I am worse....I cannot stop watching and listening to this beautiful woman sing these melodious, catchy tongue-twisters in the beauty of Scottish Gaelic.

[@kristacholak5384]

That’s Gaelic for you

[@BillChild2njoy]

She does an amazing job of this ,,, my ears are spinning! And the percussion bodhrán player is also sooo gifted..A pleasure to watch and listen to them both.

[@jadejellybean98]

Proud to be scottish

[@anndra2]

She is not swearing! ;-) 'Siud mar chaidh an cal a dholaidh....is what she is saying which loosely means "There is how the cabbage went rotten". The word 'Siud just has a rather unfortunate pronunciation when an English speaker hears it. ;-) ;-) When I perform this tune, I change the pronunciation to that of a different dialect I've heard in Cape Breton to pronounce it more like "shoot". lol She does a very good job of it. Rinn sibh math! :-)

[@kerranz]

Just realized this is probably the basis for the song Frodo dances to at Bilbo's party in the Shire in Fellowship of the Ring, very similar to the first part of this.

[@MidnightBlue766]

Fear an Dùin Mhóir is Brennus's theme from Civilization IV!

[@starkestal]

And Boudica's!

[@luketimewalker]

Oh I notice you're the CivFanatics user who informed us of this! 10 years ago... Someone just reacted to a link I put to this video thanks to you.

[@donovanhorton9559]

Very impressive.

[@armcelt]

She's amazing!

[@johnferth4378]

un vrai tour de force. bravo...

[@babiju13]

Bravissimo!

[@eltoolio]

The dude on the bodhran is a beast!

[@tmacquilly]

Fantastic!

[@charlesallan6978]

reminds me of the end bit of brochan lom tana lom where jimmy and robin sing bodachan a mhirein.

[@xtramail4909]

❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿to the moon and back

[@deenie1219]

God, she is so beautiful, perky, and talented.

[@Whayleejay]

This is great.

[@RobroyMayo]

enchanted

[@celticdw1983]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MyMoppet52]

This music is wonderful! I love the 'mouth music'. I don't know if she's swearing, but it sounds lovely. I have to find The Highland Sessions and the DVD this is on. It is sheer delight. Thank you so much for posting!

[@tamaraj4200]

No she isn't swearing.

[@LibertangoVieenrose]

superb !

[@mmbmbmbmb]

surely a special dedication to ~ and talent for this genre of music. must have been nice to be present at the concert :o) thank you for sharing it!

[@niknewerkla]

50.000 views!!! Thanks!

[@MonikGala]

Thank you very much for the lyrics!!! :D

[@MsTapenade]

yeah, right, thanks for the lyrics!

[@fischerenz]

@eltoolio The Bodhran is custom hand made by Eckermann Drums

[@TheScunneredMan]

How does she manage some of this? It's like musical tongue twisters. :-)

[@truckdriverredbone]

TheScunneredMan TheScunneredMan. It helps if you are a native Gaelic speaker so the transition of sounds have been practiced form a young age.

[@niknewerkla]

Chris Gilmore Elisabeth isn't a native though.

[@truckdriverredbone]

Quadriga Consort Born in South African, that is amazing them.

[@Bankai77J]

wish i could do magic like this with music!

[@Londubh1]

Gle-mhaith ! Dia leat, ta se sin go h-iontach !

[@vrbixby]

Elizabeth Frazer from Cocteau Twins was Scottish. She incorporated this native style into her singing

[@Thrawn6211]

@tdbsnr Yeah, when she says "Bhogainn" it sounds like "f***ing", I think it's pronounce "poh-king" or something to the effect. Either way, I want to learn this song.

[@TheXboxG]

Fookin this and fookin that

[@peterellis5626]

you got that too? ;)

[@Catubrannos]

vookin - it's bhogainn in the lyrics meaning to soak

[@olsim1730]

The thumbnail said 8hrs...I feel ripped off! 😅 but nar, this is fire 🔥

[@MrZajebali]

Why's nobody dancing?

[@MsTapenade]

DAYUM

[@Arathae]

Sorry hit the buttons too fast on my last post. I think Bh is pronounced like a B but with your bottom lip using the back of your upper teeth rather than your upper lip. Kinda like a hard V without less air through the teeth. At least that's what I have learned so far I could be wrong

[@rzeka]

What's the phoneme represented by in the word "Ghallda"? To me, it sounds like a voiceless lateral fricative and a velar fricative at the same time...

[@zacharywallace6164]

She's mispronouncing both the broad and slender one.. Broad should be voiced velar fricative, slender a voiced palatal fricative.

[@rzeka]

Zachary Wallace Thanks for the info

[@Fleischesser]

If you are referring to English, sorry to say lad but English is a Germanic tongue. Nothing slavish about it when the English ran about the world conquering a quarter of it eh? Also the Germanic and Celtic languages stem from the same stock, they share a common ancestor spoken in central Europe four thousand years ago.

[@nineteenthly]

Aye, there's nothing specially ancient about Gaidhlig or Irish, and all spoken natural languages form a constant tradition handed down from when the first people spoke countless thousands of years ago. The Q Celtic languages are also very different from their ancestors, just as today's English is from Anglo-Saxon dialects.

[@Catubrannos]

@@nineteenthly Gaelic represents a continuity with the Celtic languages known to have been spoken at least 3000 years ago. English on the other hand is a much more recent creation from a blend of Germanic and Romance sources that began during Norman times. The two have quite different origins.

[@yfoog]

early cocteu twins lol

[@themysticmuse1111]

😂

[@yfoog]

@Daniel Schnee hehe

[@oliviamcintyre23]

I wish I could sing like this she is so better that me 😭😭

[@imwiththem1]

Does anybody know what kind of drum that is? The one thats used right at the beginning.

[@redspud6017]

imwiththem1 a bodhrán

[@ditaaninditaspongebob6195]

scottish rap

[@francispotatohead300]

Aye hahaha

[@Cailean_MacCoinnich]

Dick.

[@LousyPiper]

@Seelenstriptease The bodhran is too loud - the voice is great

[@AuromKantana]

Maybe I just have a dirty mind, but it sure sounds like she's dropping the f-bomb a bunch around 1:18

[@jezkn]

He didn't

[@eachmara187]

Irish 'focal' ('word', from Latin 'vocabulum') is 'facal' in Scottish Gaelic, and the F-word is actually a V-word: "bhogainn e" meaning "I'd soak him". The song goes like this: Nam biodh agam gioball bodaich Bhogainn as an allt e Nam biodh agam gioball bodaich Bhogainn as an allt e Nam biodh agam gioball bodaich Bhogainn as an allt e 'S mur biodh e ghlan nuair a bheirinn às e Bhogainn rithist ann e Bhogainn e, 's gun togainn e 'S gun bhogainn às an allt e Bhogainn e, 's gun togainn e 'S gun bhogainn às an allt e Bhogainn e, 's gun togainn e 'S gun bhogainn às an allt e 'S mur biodh e ghlan nuair a bheirinn às e Bhogainn rithist ann e If I had a ragged old man I'd soak him in the stream If I had a ragged old man I'd soak him in the stream If I had a ragged old man I'd soak him in the stream And if he weren't clean when I removed him I'd soak him again I'd soak him and I'd lift him And I'd soak him in the stream I'd soak him and I'd lift him And I'd soak him in the stream I'd soak him and I'd lift him And I'd soak him in the stream And if he weren't clean when I removed him I'd soak him again

[@igorpetkevichius945]

@@eachmara187 , Thank You

[@yfoog]

It’s traditional Scottish music. Of course she’s swearing!!!

[@huntmatuk]

@RC93PIOB I'm english. I was being silly.

[@anthonymack8076]

Which tunes are these?

[@darkwattie227]

this is the only thing that remains of true humanity

[@xplatog2317]

What is a bodhran

[@RavenStealstheNight]

It's like hop scotch for one's mouth. :-)

[@Arathae]

I think Bh is pronounces

[@McClernand4]

ALBA GU BRATH !

[@mikeadamsLord-Vader]

You better label this as not for kid's with all that foochin! ;)

[@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677]

Gle mhath

[@ternitamas]

so is she really singing gibberish? or some are actual words?

[@nineteenthly]

Translated, the lyrics are a song about how cabbage is boiled badly with flour in the pot by the king of France etc, but it's more like a tongue twister and the actual meaning of the words isn't important.

[@ternitamas]

@@nineteenthly thanks, interesting to know those are actually lyrics =)

[@nineteenthly]

@@ternitamas well thank you too! I probably haven't got them exactly right. Gaidhlig and Irish are ideal languages for singing because of the way the words blend into each other, it seems, and in a way it often doesn't matter much what they actually mean.

[@ternitamas]

@@nineteenthly that's what enya always says about Gaelic, she loves the sounds of the language because they are so "singable" I agree they sound beautiful

[@nineteenthly]

@@ternitamas It's pretty much changed how I think about language. Previously I thought of it in a very practical way - "look out for that sabretooth tiger" kind of thing between two stone age people. But now I think of it as primarily emotional, or at least substantially so. It's about the feeling, and I even wonder now whether people sang before they spoke.

[@MJHBeats]

love this video... but i wish i never read this cos now all i can hear "and fucking this and fucking this"

[@LazerBear42]

It's called a bodhrán.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

WHat shall we do with the drunken sailor ...

[@lsathomas]

I believe your date for Western IE is a little late.

[@blabla-kk8bl]

all british out.

[@WOUTERJOYCOMPANYORG]

NEEN BEDANKT

[@archiebrown3719]

This ehy the scottish language was band from being led forward into the new age but its the ancient language of the scotland Ireland but the killed alot of the language n culture through the ages destroying it peace at a time so sad that knowledge and information that we all could have learned from if it had been kept alive

[@NEWSITYRAP]

Scotisch like Bavarian accent... .

[@maxbacon4828]

Are they not the most beautiful girls in the World?.

[@darkwattie227]

this language is a thousand years older then that latin based, bastard slave lanugage everybody uses today.

[@tdbsnr]

Interesting, but to my ignorant sasanach ears it does sound like she's swearing like a trooper!!

[@isrealjason]

I think this proves once and for all that evilution is not true or correct

[@specificocean1574]

cringe lol