I define this type of music as having Middle Eastern or Indian/African modal grammar and being semi-improvisational. Edda is not in this category. She is in her to own category! Brm
I suppose my entry doesn't qualify since you mean solo artist but my favorite wailing music is Gyorgy Ligeti "Requiem" (Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra) from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are some ghostly textures of collective soprano wailing in agony in that piece that scared the hell out of me as a kid.
I suppose my entry doesn't qualify since you mean solo artist but my favorite wailing music is Gyorgy Ligeti "Requiem" (Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra) from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are some ghostly textures of collective soprano wailing in agony in that piece that scared the hell out of me as a kid.
I define this type of music as having Middle Eastern or Indian/African modal grammar and being semi-improvisational. Edda is not in this category. She is in her to own category! Brm
Yup, I'm thinking of the term the same way.
Since 'wailing woman' is a somewhat negative term, and people are now also listing things that are not in the "Lisa Gerrard" mode that the topic starter probably intended, I think 'wordless female vocal' is a broader and less negative term that could be used in this instance.
You can't have film music with out wailing its criminal - some of the best known scores have had it.
I like - Emmanuelle & The White Slave Trade, if you've listened too this you'll know there's different variations going on - some are really pretty added with a latino style - other wails are still pretty but more progressive - solo.
When I hear the main theme + variation bonuses - it does give me the goose bumps the wailing builds up so loud they give you a powerful tribal blast, pretty cool. I heard wails with GB&TU & GOSS but much less intense. NJ was used in Tarantino's KB vol-2.
I define this type of music as having Middle Eastern or Indian/African modal grammar and being semi-improvisational. Edda is not in this category. She is in her to own category! Brm
I think 'wordless female vocal' is a broader and less negative term that could be used in this instance.
the technical term is "vocalese". so, "female vocalese"
Well I suppose if you want to illustrate "wailing woman" in the more (most?) literal sense you can start with "My Man's Gone Now" from Goish's P&B and then toss in your favorite performer. It's quite stunning when heard as an audience member in a live performance.
