Does anybody else find this somewhat disturbing or odd or something?

[Liberal In Texas]

It's the Carmina Slovenica, Karmina Šilec

And, well I love that women are making great music and all that, but with the bare feet and the synchronized choreography it all seems strange.
Maybe I'm getting old. But it seems somehow....odd.

[Croney]

1. Wow! That blew my mind. Thanks for sharing.

[Liberal In Texas]

2. I think the music is gerat...just wtf with the staging. n/t

[hedda_foil]

3. These young ladies are phenomenal.

[Lulu KC]

4. At first I did

Then it just turned into girl power to the max! I need a translation.

[Lulu KC]

5. There are no translations

I just googled adiemus--another whole thing! Thanks for sharing this. Karl Jenkins, Welsh.
Although I must admit, when I read the lyrics I could only think Esperanto.

[Talitha]

6. I don't think there is a translation...

IIRC it's just a bunch of words that all end in vowels, meant to sound melodic and represent a combination of Celtic and African music. Can't remember where I heard this, might have been NPR.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. The twirls of their right feet must be "art".

As someone that appreciates reason, art frightens and confuses me.

vimeo.com/133414453

[DFW]

8. Women's choral music is an old tradition in Eastern Europe. Some is really haunting

When I was in college, we had a balalaika orchestra, and some of the students had spent time in the Balkans and learned some of the music from that area. It originally stems from the fact that women used to work the fields, and sang together as they worked. If you want to get completely mesmerized, listen to this from Bulgaria (do yourself a favor, you've never heard ANYTHING like this!):

Here is the same song in a different key (with two men, which I have never seen except in Croatia), in traditional peasant costumes of Bulgaria's various regions.

Here is Song of Shapska (from a live performance on Johnny Carson, of all places), and you can just visualize the women working in the fields singing in unison to not go crazy with their monotonous back-breaking work:

[octoberlib]

12. This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[DFW]

13. They did a concert here in our area about 20 years ago

You could have heard a pin drop.

[ornotna]

9. Adiemus lyrics

https://genius.com/Karl-jenkins-adiemus-lyrics

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Translation?

"Twirl our right feet now"

Is it something along those lines?

[2naSalit]

11. That was pretty cool.

I performed in choir when I was in college and we had some interesting pieces with choreography. I like this one, it's like chanting. I have close friends from the Balkans and have heard quite a bit of their music, this is only reminiscent of the majority of it but it's good.

[oasis]

14. Beautiful. nt

[Donkees]

15. The first song they are singing is called 'Kayama' from the Adiemus series ...

This is the song 'Adiemus'

[treestar]

16. all female!

pretty awesome. Looks like a cultural group.