Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Get Out Of My House Message-ID: <8908281859.AA08792@uunet.uu.net> Date: 28 Aug 89 18:39:16 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: motcid!marble!meadley@uunet.UU.NET (A. Meadley) Whilst playing "The Dreaming" to an Asian friend recently, he commented that the section (which sounds like) "Dagga dagim da da, daggim da da", is in fact derived from an Indian dance discipline called the Rhag (this spelling may be incorrect). It is a very formal dance in which the instructor chants and the students perform the intricate dance to this chanting. Exactly where Kate picked this up and just what the precise significance of this is to the song, we can merely conjecture. (Or ask IED's KT knowledge bank :-) ), but I believe Kate does listen to quite a bit of ethnic material. Ant in Chicago.