Neologism based songs
Lacking in music vocabulary I'm finding it hard to articulate, but I am looking for songs (or the genre) that use sounds and made up words purely for its aesthetic quality. The closest thing I can conceive of is something like Adiemus which uses vocals as an instrument where the words have no inherent meaning of themselves. Beatboxing I think comes close too but the 'vocabulary' in beatboxing seems somewhat more limited.
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Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins used to make up/pick up random words just for their sound.
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an invented language is called idioglossia;
the broader study of euphony (what sounds good) is phonaesthetics.
Nat King Cole's "Frim Fram Sauce" comes to mind as does the "Hapsut Song."
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