It's an imitation of yoruba, like I said. It's actually a Nigerian yoruba INFJ friend of mine who remarked the language sounded drum like, I don't think it's racist. All the words she taught me had "g" "b" "d" and o" sounds in them, which are the most rhythmic phonems in human language, you will find that beat box is mostly made up of these sounds for example.
Exert from Wikipedia drum history page:
Except that those things you listed are not actually phonemes.
Even coming from a total layman who only observed these noises according to their percussive value,
you are clearly missing a whole lot, which would include the various sounds of "s", "p", "k", "t", "d", "r", "m", "n" and a whole lot of other consonants, not even including sounds which are represented in african languages that our latinized system can't account for.
Your approach is at best ignorant.
Oh, and, needless to say, i don't buy your newly invented nigerian friend story.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog.../why-every-racist-mentions-their-black-friend
The drum is the oldest known instrument in the world dating back to 4000 BCE in Egypt in the northeast corner of Africa.[4] It is present throughout every region of Africa playing different roles amongst the various peoples.
Exer[p]t from wikihow history of African drums page:
"The drum is perhaps the oldest musical instrument in the world, with every society employing it in varying degrees. However, it is most revered among the people of Africa, where it comes in various forms and fulfills various functions. The drum is the most important musical instrument in Africa."
As a drummer and hobbyist anthropologist i don't think your wikipedia/wikihow article copy and paste job can tell me anything new.
I think it's rather sad that you have to copy and paste those findings after the fact,
it has ain air of defending your ignorance post factum.
But let us see how far your ignorance really goes by quoting the following:
Obviously other countries had drums too but Percussion as we know it today originated in Africa and is in fact an integral part of their culture. African music became blues which is full of Percussion compared to all the traditional folk songs in western culture before that, it isthe backbone of their music (and of ours as well now because we copied their rhythms into our music). And if there are similarities between their various languages and how their music sounds I'm not that suprised. In saying this I am not reducing them to coconut bashers or whatever you said. It's a great contribution to music, drums are fucking awesome, what have you got against drums you drumist bastard?
This really goes to show that you have ZERO knowledge about the music of africa.
Don't even get me started that you improvised this tangent to deflect from your linguistic shortcomings.
Percussion as we know it today is as far as you can get from traditional african percussion.
One single drum computer in western percussion has replaced a whole section of at least a dozen people in traditional african music.
It's really astonishing with how little actual knowledge you try to get away.
While it may be true, according to many theories, that the drum is the first instrument in terms of human evolution, you dismiss the fact that the african continent has developed many more advanced instruments.
By limiting your "observation" to the most basic form, you limit africans as a whole to being able of achieving only the most basic developments,
which is clearly racist.
You don't aknowledge the invention of the Balaphone going back at least to the 1300s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXXhp_bZvck
You disrespect the invention of the Mbira:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdw5IoqUOhs
You completely ignore the fact that almost all forms of musical instruments exist in africa.
(
Most probably before they even existed in europe.)
I won't run anywhere, kid, except if i want to.
I've uploaded two distinct examples to showcase the complexety of contemporary traditional african music:
[MP3]http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/d8hppdm5wv/Hamid_Al_Mou_excerpt.mp3
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[MP3]http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/a7lj90fb4j/Finekeba_Fali_Camara_excerpt.mp3[/MP3]
But i know,
their names are too repetative (
which they are clearly not), i bear in mind
the fact that they don't mention titties, beer, football, references to soap opera series and hollywood celebrities, which must entirely bore you out of your skull, so i spare you the rest.
DON'T YOU DARE TO COMPARE THESE COMPLEX ARRANGEMENTS TO YOUR WESTERN CONTEMPORARY LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR POP TRASH "MUSIC".