Ugo
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Posted: Dec. 16 2009, 17:47 |
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The choir itself was about 100 people (I remember reading about it somewhere), then of course those 100 voices were overdubbed, probably more than once. Considering how many times the various "Son-de-la" chants in the very last seconds are layered on top of each other, I'd say that the choir (which were all African people, by the way) was overdubbed at least four times, thus close to 400 voices. African choirs tend to sound very big by their own nature, because all the choir members sing quite loud and they always go very precisely together. That's just in their nature - I saw Lebo M. do that with the African choirs on the soundtrack of Disney's The Lion King... they're about 30 people there, but they sound like 100. So I think that what Mike was after was a big choir sound, and (most probably taking advice from his longtime friend Julian Bahula) he decided that the best way to get it was to use an African choir... which, as I just said, sounds already big by itself. This one was also big in its size, so Mike exploited it in an excellent way to realize the grand, powerful and triumphant parts that make up the Amarok finale.
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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