Well, sounds like an Easter European language but Europeans have made a speciality of creating non-existing languages, such as the song Killiwatch (the cousins, in the 1960s) or even the Ameno album (The Visitors - 1992-1993)
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Hmm... if Eastern European, I'd guess Romanian, because of what sound like Latin influences.

Otherwise... it really is kinda out-there, which means, if Scandinavian, then Finnish.

Do you have a hard-copy of the lyrics, or a title?
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Haven't found an answer yet, but I'm hoping a horrible transcription will force someone who speaks the language to be angered enough to correct it:

ti tar po him lenz grodnom olsom yamar solen
de hararal so vaden ne tan
ti dor rum ti dor rum a la hem la kro pash hem
san ser san ser ya her gardens shirkto parafyaran
vi da marker de hararal so yuden so mal trexel ho
trexel ho par la var rensish hen dar sare dar sare ya velklet
folk anaias velk nevano vakra dar mer en lu fa elenkar
ef te ma ti mun tu na ha yu gram la twum fel pla.... nyet
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It definitely (sort of definitely anyway) sounds like an Eastern European melody to me. I'd guess Russian Gypsy folk song, but you'd have to ask a Russian Gypsy. Google is completely stumped by Brian San's transliteration in part or in whole even though it looks good to a human - Google is all over the map on that.
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I speak German, and I hang around with a lot of Russian and Ukrainian speakers.

The vowels in this aren't quite the Moscovite Russian I'm used to. At first, I was detecting a lot of German roots, which led me to believe that this was possibly either in Austrian dialect (they roll their Rs in Austria) or the formal German singing style, which also uses rolled Rs.

But listening a few more times didn't make it possible for me to understand the words--I feel like I'm right on the edge of it. It does sound like a language related to Russian. Russian is another Sanskrit derived language, and is often thought to be the closest to it.

If languages were a clearly-defined map, I'd put this on the border of eastern Germany and Russia.

But I'm going to say Icelandic: the vowels sound right, the rolled r at the end of many words sounds right, and the once-in-awhile Germanic roots fit, too.

Listen to this video and see what you think:
Source(s):
http://www.antimoon.com/forum/2005/7139.htm rolled rs in the Germanic world

pp. 58 and 59 of DREVNOST': AR'I. SLAVYANYE. (ANTIQUITY: ARYANS. SLAVS). Moscow, Paleya. 1996. "Link Between Russian and Sanskrit" , a lecture given on Feb 22 1964 in Moscow by Prof. Durga Prasad Shastri at the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society

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Beautiful.

I went about this a different way. I pulled words i felt were likely vowels/nouns and googled them individually.

I believe what that is is slovak.

I think the written version here has some misspellings so the translator didn't translate the entire thing, but because it was able to pick up at least bits and peices I'm gonna go with Slovak. Which makes sense my first guess was Russian. It reminds me of the music for disney's Anastasia.

http://www.heartofeurope.co.uk/dictionary.htm

Here you can also see some sample of slovac.

Translation I was given for Slovak from Brain's written version.

"and tar after him Lenz Grodno olsom yamar solen
de Harare with no tan vaden
ti ti dor dor rum rum and la la kro pasha hem hem
san san ser ser ya her gardens shirkto parafyaran
vi da de Harare marker with YUDEN having had him Trex
Trex him par la var rensish hen gift gift Sare Sare ya velklet
Folk anai Big Nevan vakra gift mer en fa lu elenkar
ef te ma ti moon here in ha yu gram twum la fel pla .... nyet "

Far worse singer.. but.. you get the sound...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA6z9TnAXyc

I dunno for sure, but yeah, Slovak is my guess.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Slovakia

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There is not one word of Slovak anywhere in that song. Furthermore it is NOT any Slavic Language... NOT Russian Ukrainian Polish Czech Croatian Bulgarian Macedonian Slovenian Pomeranian Moravian Rusyn!! NONE. What it is.... Estonian.
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