Concerning the
Dhrill.
It's for me one of the hardest sound to get correctly.
I'm no expert at all, but I'll tell you how I see the thing, please tell me if I'm right or wrong.
That retroflex tongue position (cf. M*lk*y's CD) is the same used in throat singing to produce the overtone.
In Jeremy Cloake's new CD (
Balanda Yidaki Dhukarr), we hear that overtone when he's just singing the
"Dhrill" (without the didj).
As M*lk*y and Jeremy explain and show on their CDs,
Dhrill is a tongue
movement from interdental tongue position to retroflex position.
From what I understand, the
Dhrill sound is really produced in that movement, and not in the starting or ending tongue position in themselves.
I imagine that movement as an excavator's shovel (!!!).
As if the tongue was that shovel that had to bring back the air-flow into the throat, working against that air pressure and letting only a small thin amout pass through.
Or... if we see it the other way : as if the tongue was trying to pull
inside your throat the air of the outside (or of inside the didj), a bit like a dog lapping water...
And maybe that last image is the origin for the use of the verb "to pull" instead of "to play" when talking about didjing ?
I don't know if this "imagery" could fit with the
Dhrill or if it is way out ? Please tell me...
There also is still something I didn't figure out at all there (neither in throatsinging):
When retroflexing the tongue, does the tip of the tongue touch the palate or is it just close to it without touching ?
Does the air pass only through the sides of the tongue or also a little bit from above ?
(...) The tongue touches the palate in the retroflexed position.
EDIT > again, my mp3 file is truncated to the first 2 seconds if played on clik... Gotta download it for full listening... sorry.
