It was the message so many Somalis have longed to hear, but which have often sounded strangled from Western capitals, with their the generosity bound by security caveats.
You would definitely notice something was up if you walked into a room full of people struggling with the disorder; in their neck and back, like me, or their throats (making their words sound strangled), or even eyelids (potentially causing functional blindness).
Popoff noted that because of the strange production, the bass guitar was nearly inaudible, while the guitars sounded "strangled mechanistic".
Why is it so popular, I ask, trying not to sound too strangled.
I mean, I knew that it was Lotte, but her voice sounded different, strangled, a new, strange voice".
The lady went up to a programme seller and said: 'Isn't there a rather curious smell in this theatre?' And the programme seller replied: 'It's the play, madam.' But what did the poor actor who was lashed to the pillar say to you? RR : Well, of course, when I asked him for a programme all I got were these strangled sounds.
The collected halves represent, more or less, the two main categories of his music: a sensuous mode of songwriting heavily indebted to Brazilian sounds and a strangled, atonal blend of singing and detuned guitar that he began pursuing in the nineteen-seventies, as a newly arrived New Yorker.
They're turning to face us, and making pidgin efforts to communicate with strangled sounds and cryptic markings and waving like a Sims character who wants, no, needs something from us.
He laughs, but a strangled sound comes out.
The 56-year-old makes his innovative playing seem as intuitive as breathing, even when the result sounds like something being strangled.
