Kenneth Copeland goes metal

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10. Very clever

His mimicking the phrasing, tempo and accents of the spoken material is brilliant! Brings to mind two things: David Byrne and Brian Eno’s “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” used radio recordings of southern preachers to create brilliant music collages. “Help Me Somebody” is my favourite, almost makes me wanna go to church!

Much less commercial, more in the vein of electronic or experimental music is the Quebec guitarist Rene Lussier whose album “Le Tresor de la Langue” (Treasures of the Language?) used audio clips of French speakers accompanied by guitar mimicking the cadences of the speaker. The first part of this clip is the infamous speech by Charles De Gaulle at the height of FLQ separatist tensions where he shouted to the crowd “Vive le Quebec libre” (long live a free Quebec”.