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Wow...I love that. So jagged, so misrepresented. The jagged female vocals are like HELLO, do this! love the raw emotional movement, and manifest of those emotions. I am here to pacify though Jesus Christus.
The Shaggs unironically.
(Foot Foot was a cat.)
This is an example of a genre called outsider music and The Shaggs particularly have received encomiums from such luminaries as Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain. Wikipedia has an article about them that can be perused here -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs
… and, frankly, it's rather sad.
If one's appetite has been whetted, if one's interest has been piqued, here is their Opera Omnia:
(To those who might try claim that they have listened to this album in its entirety: Firstly, your perseverance is extraordinarily impressive and, secondly, no you didn't.)
Francisco Tárrega Gran Vals
Or the unexpected origin of commonplace things.
Fifty Fifty Cupid
(Always up for a bit of K-pop.)
And this rather incongruous TikTok that led me to it.
Rome during the reign of Claudius
"I say, lads, fancy a go at the Celts?"
The Cornu de Pompeii
Meanwhile, in soon to be Britannia
"Bloody Romans."
The Carnyx
This
… because of this
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714), Ciaconne
Nathalie Stutzmann multi-tasking:
Handel, Mio cor, che mi sai dir? from Rinaldo
Lea Desandre
Pallavicino, Vieni, corri, volami in braccio from L’Antiope