the heart sings } on the fifth day of christmas
I give you my new music fancy, a five-part musical form, which, for that there is singing, I have given the name Cantata Cordis. It is the companion mix to the Soul Music mix I made for St Patrick's Day this year. This is heart music -- for the days when you neither want nor can wave the music in your soul like a battle flag, but your heart still refuses to give up. It pumps you full of rhythm, blood, and impulse, it's like music CPR, it makes you feel alive despite yourself, and it never, ever gives up on you.
As you might have surmised, I have also tried to flounce my sophisticated knowledge of complex musical forms, namely, sonata, and you'll see that all I suceeded in was to make myself seem thoroughly ludicrous. However, though I've applied zero of actual musical grammar, I'm proud of this baby, and the songs do mold together quite spectacularly at times, if I do say so myself, so listen in sequence, if you will. This mix is of course a blindingly hearts-in-my-eyes tribute to amazing artists that I've discovered, loved, listenened to live and cried to this year, to The Whitlams, Lisa, Hannigan, Ben Folds and Andrew Bird, fun., Cold War Kids, I Am Kloot, Mumford & Sons, Murray Gold of the shiny Doctor Who scores, and Underworld of the mindblowing Frankenstein soundtrack.
MAKI @ flickr
First Movement
Andante
Liement me deport ❞ Youth People Choir of New York
I behave as though happy, but I bear such a grievous wound*
Lucky ❞ Radiohead
Pull me out of the aircrash, I feel muy luck could change
Прялка [Spinning Wheel] ❞ Мельница
Glowing spokes spinning turn life into death, eyes incandesce*
People Are Like Suns ❞ Crowded House
Sweet madness, it must be wrong -- what kind of fool imagines love with all this going on
Dead Hearts ❞ Stars
I could say it, but you won't believe me, you say you do, but you don't deceive me
Second Movement
Allegro non troppo
Split the Lark ❞ Brainstorm
Sing, dear songbird, your song is true
Wild #2 ❞ Royal Teeth
Just because we're growing up, doesn't mean we've had enough
Be Calm ❞ fun.
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive, and everything's wrong; be calm
Are You Ready ❞ Fatty Gets a Stylist
Have you trimmed your beard? Are your sandals shined? Do you look a hipster messiah?
Arc of Time ❞ Bright Eyes
To the deepest part of the human heart the fear of death expands
Until we crack the code we have always known but could never understand
Let's Dance to Joy Division ❞ The Wombats
A small piece of advice that took twenty-two years in the making,
I'll break it for you now, please learn from my mistakes
You Sound Like Louis Burdett ❞ The Whitlams
Nothing too emotional, my good miss, I couldn't be serious in a room full of jack-knife eyes
Brave As a Noun ❞ Andrew Jackson Jihad
In this life we lead, we can conquer every thing,
if we could just get the braves to get out of bed in the morning
Third Movement
Adagio
Cologne ❞ Ben Folds
Says here an astronaut put on a pair of diapers, drove eighteen hours to kill her boyfriend
25th December ❞ Everything But the Girl
And all of a sudden I'm struck with an urge to unlock a door with a key that's too big for my hands
Nunthinduan Waltz (duet version) ❞ Andrew Bird
Why do you do when you don't have a clue 'cept wait for night fall when
the will of the wind has its way in the grass on a summer's day
Paloma ❞ Carbon Leaf
Today I watched the greatest thing of all: a flock of birds, preparing for the fall
Sea Shanty & Croft ❞ Underworld
Though thunder strike and lighting rage, oh, leave me not 'n this salty grave**
Seagulls Over Rhinosuarus Bay Part II ❞ Foxy Shazzam
Fourth Movement
Moderato con moto
Vänner och Fränder ❞ Garmarna
We will give a king's son for your husband, he has more gold than little Roland has land
Keep It All ❞ Lisa Hannigan
Call if the light's on, come in and lay low, just so that you know that I keep it all, for you
Vesper ❞ Deb Oh
Our bodies are still intact, but our hearts have up and gone
Tell Me in the Morning ❞ Cold War Kids
I confess to self deception, I broke the lock and pried it open, then pretended to be stolen
I Believe ❞ I Am Kloot
The ceaseless seamless straying of your heart wwill one day cause itself to make a start
Fifth Movement
Allegretto
Sister ❞ Mumford & Sons
Don't test the ones you love; if you want to feel alive, then learn to love your ground
Stockholm i natt ❞ Peter Jöback
I feel a hand grab my arm, and I want to cry, happy*
Good Day ❞ Jukebox the Ghost
Wearing their hearts on their sleeve; but oh! how good it felt to have them worn just like they should
Jump Rope ❞ Blue October
Remember how you used to say you couldn't wait till tomorrow for a brand new day
Onwards! ❞ Murray Gold
❞ ZIP
*Free translation of original lyric.
**I have not been able to actually make out what they're singing, so that's what I think I hear.
And let me just say, today has been the last day of class in my master's, so I'd really love to raise a glass with all of you - hope this, instead, is good enough. Sincerely, me.
As you might have surmised, I have also tried to flounce my sophisticated knowledge of complex musical forms, namely, sonata, and you'll see that all I suceeded in was to make myself seem thoroughly ludicrous. However, though I've applied zero of actual musical grammar, I'm proud of this baby, and the songs do mold together quite spectacularly at times, if I do say so myself, so listen in sequence, if you will. This mix is of course a blindingly hearts-in-my-eyes tribute to amazing artists that I've discovered, loved, listenened to live and cried to this year, to The Whitlams, Lisa, Hannigan, Ben Folds and Andrew Bird, fun., Cold War Kids, I Am Kloot, Mumford & Sons, Murray Gold of the shiny Doctor Who scores, and Underworld of the mindblowing Frankenstein soundtrack.
MAKI @ flickr
First Movement
Andante
Liement me deport ❞ Youth People Choir of New York
I behave as though happy, but I bear such a grievous wound*
Lucky ❞ Radiohead
Pull me out of the aircrash, I feel muy luck could change
Прялка [Spinning Wheel] ❞ Мельница
Glowing spokes spinning turn life into death, eyes incandesce*
People Are Like Suns ❞ Crowded House
Sweet madness, it must be wrong -- what kind of fool imagines love with all this going on
Dead Hearts ❞ Stars
I could say it, but you won't believe me, you say you do, but you don't deceive me
Second Movement
Allegro non troppo
Split the Lark ❞ Brainstorm
Sing, dear songbird, your song is true
Wild #2 ❞ Royal Teeth
Just because we're growing up, doesn't mean we've had enough
Be Calm ❞ fun.
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive, and everything's wrong; be calm
Are You Ready ❞ Fatty Gets a Stylist
Have you trimmed your beard? Are your sandals shined? Do you look a hipster messiah?
Arc of Time ❞ Bright Eyes
To the deepest part of the human heart the fear of death expands
Until we crack the code we have always known but could never understand
Let's Dance to Joy Division ❞ The Wombats
A small piece of advice that took twenty-two years in the making,
I'll break it for you now, please learn from my mistakes
You Sound Like Louis Burdett ❞ The Whitlams
Nothing too emotional, my good miss, I couldn't be serious in a room full of jack-knife eyes
Brave As a Noun ❞ Andrew Jackson Jihad
In this life we lead, we can conquer every thing,
if we could just get the braves to get out of bed in the morning
Third Movement
Adagio
Cologne ❞ Ben Folds
Says here an astronaut put on a pair of diapers, drove eighteen hours to kill her boyfriend
25th December ❞ Everything But the Girl
And all of a sudden I'm struck with an urge to unlock a door with a key that's too big for my hands
Nunthinduan Waltz (duet version) ❞ Andrew Bird
Why do you do when you don't have a clue 'cept wait for night fall when
the will of the wind has its way in the grass on a summer's day
Paloma ❞ Carbon Leaf
Today I watched the greatest thing of all: a flock of birds, preparing for the fall
Sea Shanty & Croft ❞ Underworld
Though thunder strike and lighting rage, oh, leave me not 'n this salty grave**
Seagulls Over Rhinosuarus Bay Part II ❞ Foxy Shazzam
Fourth Movement
Moderato con moto
Vänner och Fränder ❞ Garmarna
We will give a king's son for your husband, he has more gold than little Roland has land
Keep It All ❞ Lisa Hannigan
Call if the light's on, come in and lay low, just so that you know that I keep it all, for you
Vesper ❞ Deb Oh
Our bodies are still intact, but our hearts have up and gone
Tell Me in the Morning ❞ Cold War Kids
I confess to self deception, I broke the lock and pried it open, then pretended to be stolen
I Believe ❞ I Am Kloot
The ceaseless seamless straying of your heart wwill one day cause itself to make a start
Fifth Movement
Allegretto
Sister ❞ Mumford & Sons
Don't test the ones you love; if you want to feel alive, then learn to love your ground
Stockholm i natt ❞ Peter Jöback
I feel a hand grab my arm, and I want to cry, happy*
Good Day ❞ Jukebox the Ghost
Wearing their hearts on their sleeve; but oh! how good it felt to have them worn just like they should
Jump Rope ❞ Blue October
Remember how you used to say you couldn't wait till tomorrow for a brand new day
Onwards! ❞ Murray Gold
❞ ZIP
*Free translation of original lyric.
**I have not been able to actually make out what they're singing, so that's what I think I hear.
And let me just say, today has been the last day of class in my master's, so I'd really love to raise a glass with all of you - hope this, instead, is good enough. Sincerely, me.