The Virtual Boob Tube: Hang Drum vs. Hum-Drum
Published by 
oreth on May 21, 2008 11:51 am
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First up, we have Manu Delago playing the recently engineered Hang Drum.
The seemingly extraterrestrial instrument you see featured here is the Hang Drum. It was first engineered in Switzerland in 2000.
Earlier this week I was listening to Beck’s Guero, specifically, the track named Rental Car. About one-minute from the end, there is a female vocalist singing the roughly dubbed “Penguin Dance Song“. This woman’s name is Petra Haden, she’s a classically trained vocalist and violinist. She recorded Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” in an entirely vocal arrangement, save for drums. The video is as surreal as the music itself is:
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