I just realized tennesee-titan was specifically quoting Enigma’s “Return to Innocence” (from the Pure Moods commercials) in all of these posts, listen around 1:32
Are you shitting me? How?
I’m serious about those commercials, depending on your media diet you would hear that chant around four times a day every day in the mid-90s, it became the go-to example of “mystic chant”, which I think is why tennesee-titan used it and I recognized it
There’s an article to be written about the “exotic flavor” trends of the mid-90s, after the “white American nation” had secured its retreat to the suburbs and reconsolidated a cable-TV multiplex hegemony over culture – this and Enya and “world music” and Riverdance and alt-country and all sorts of yin-yang and mandala and Tibetan prayer-flag imagery around like, Snapple-alike brands
(the article would be called “Return to Innocence”, obv)
