From Glitterbeat Records’ Bandcamp site:
“Volume #11 of our acclaimed Hidden Musics series.
The Taa language in Botswana possesses 112 sounds, the most of any language in the world. In contrast, English has approximately 44 sounds, Italian 32. But there are only around 2,500 Taa speakers remaining and the language is “dying.”
The songs on this album are mostly mantras— prayers that repeat the same words or phrases over and over again. The song titles tell entire stories by themselves, and with the Taa language’s heavy use of click consonants, the sounds carry the meaning as much as the words.
The name of the Taa language itself translates to “human being,” making its threat of extinction all the more poignant— the language living in the people, not on the page.”
