[ SECRET POST #4857 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4857 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Whatcha Listening To

[philstar22]

Ooo, so, Youtube randomly recommended me The Dream of Flight by Christopher Tin. I believe it is from the Civilization 6 soundtrack. I have become obsessed with this song and have listened to nothing else the past two days. It is so beautiful, honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s

Other than that, I've been listening to a lot of Sabaton lately, especially The Great War, their latest album.

Re: Whatcha Listening To

[(Anonymous)]

Great War is a fantastic track!

Re: Whatcha Listening To

[philstar22]

I meant the whole album, but I love that song. The chorus of the song is the thing I've been randomly singing around my house for the past couple of weeks.

Re: Whatcha Listening To

[(Anonymous)]

Christopher Tin has more cool works! He wrote two song cycles, both of which I recommend if you like Dream of Flight:

Calling All Dawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_rKSTM43I

The Drop that Contained the Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQLWkzPQFbo

There are interesting concepts behind both of them. He chooses a theme (circle of life/spirituality, and the water cycle, respectively). Then he finds texts about that theme in different languages, like songs, poems, prayers etc., and makes them the lyrics to his songs. The order of the songs reflects the circle, and the songs are musically inspired by the cultures they're from, with ethnic percussion, regional singing techinques and so on. And the cultures he uses are not Euro-centric!

To give you an example for what Tin does with the cycle idea:
Calling All Dawns has twelve songs, in three groups of four. These three movements are day, night and dawn or life, death and rebirth; the mood of the songs changes accordingly. There's a four note motif right at the beginning of Calling All Dawns that keeps popping up throughout the whole cycle. It's also the melody of the first and last song, at the very beginning of the first verses ("Baba yetu yetu ulie" and "Kia hora"). And because it's a cycle, it ends exactly like it starts, with the same motif sung exactly the same way with the same atmospheric background strings.

Drop is, imho, better than Dawns – Tin has clearly improved, Drop has more variety and subtlety – but both are good.

(If you don't want to sit through the whole thing, just listen to the first track of Calling all Dawns, Baba Yetu. The lyrics are The Lord's Prayer in Swahili. Like Dream of Flight, it's from a Civilization soundtrack, and it's pretty nice even on its own.)

Re: Whatcha Listening To

[philstar22]

Cool! I've actually already heard and love Baba Yetu before, so going to listen to the rest as soon as I have the time to spare.