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Emotions flying with the flocks.
I just got the soundtrack to Winged Migration tonight, a film I saw a few weeks ago. Before I saw it, I was informed by my local cool cd shop, via email newsletter, that it had Nick Cave and Robert Wyatt on it, and that if i kept my ticket stub (which I did), I would get $2 off the cd. Anyhow, I remembered enjoying the music in the film; it's not everyday you hear such beautiful music while watching a nature documentary. I mean, I was hooked by the opening sequence alone; the scenery, the music, and Robert Wyatt's vocals. It nearly brought me to tears. I struggled with myself not to cry. While I have a ton of great music, only a few go so deep that I simply sponatneously cry. Among those are:
Watch Me Bleed-Tears For Fears (The Hurting)
The Last Balloon-XTC (Apple Venus vol 1)
Consequences-Aurora (from my close pal...not from any album in stores)
The first two consistently bring tears to my eyes even if I am not paying too much attention to the song; the last one has made me cry before, but not always. I think it is wonderful when music touches me this way. The opening of the booklet has an introduction by the composer, Bruno Coulais. Here is what it says:
It goes on a bit more to describe what he was thinking when he was composing the music, and also the "how and why" he chose the musicians that he did, and so on.
Anyhow, I guess there is not much more to tell right now. We've got a few things planned for this weekend including my sister in laws birthday, and Mark is supposed to be coming in town for that, so we will probably spend time with him too. Not sure what else but, we shall see. we shall see.
Watch Me Bleed-Tears For Fears (The Hurting)
The Last Balloon-XTC (Apple Venus vol 1)
Consequences-Aurora (from my close pal...not from any album in stores)
The first two consistently bring tears to my eyes even if I am not paying too much attention to the song; the last one has made me cry before, but not always. I think it is wonderful when music touches me this way. The opening of the booklet has an introduction by the composer, Bruno Coulais. Here is what it says:
Debussy said that if you wanted to learn to compose, it was better to watch a sunset than to listen to a Beethoven symphony. But during the months I spent dreaming over the scenes in Winged Migration, their magnificent spectacle induced more quiet contemplation in me than musical composition. I have no answer to that question.
How could a mere 12 sounds express the bliss of that first takeoff, the unexpected freedom of flight, the exhausting battle of migration, or nature's mad fancy? I have no answer to that question, only a few personal, maybe precarious, but sincere personal suggestions...
It goes on a bit more to describe what he was thinking when he was composing the music, and also the "how and why" he chose the musicians that he did, and so on.
Anyhow, I guess there is not much more to tell right now. We've got a few things planned for this weekend including my sister in laws birthday, and Mark is supposed to be coming in town for that, so we will probably spend time with him too. Not sure what else but, we shall see. we shall see.