what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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Philip Glass - the Hours

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jMruFHTwrY[/youtube]

i like songs that have an active and audible piano track throughout the entire song. i am particularly fond of the piano, and i have not much interest in songs that do not contain a piano track. a piano track is what "grounds" my understanding of the value of the melody.

sometimes i become disgruntled at how other musicians (who consider themselves "virtuosos" that twang out a few notes on a stringed instrument in ebullient pride) consider the piano track to be among the least of their concerns. i think that if a song can be considered valid in a musical sense, it must be able to be played solely on a piano with no vocals or accompaniments.

so at this moment i am listening to "stares and whispers" by "renee geyer". she was a very talented woman.
but i like especially the piano track's interplay with her voice. she was singing while listening to the brilliant piano track and that is one of the reasons i like this song
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8F5mL_vRbU[/youtube]

the lyrics baffle me however. how can someone simultaneously "stare" and "whisper"? anyway, just listen to the piano track if you want to understand how i see this song.

Philip Glass/Uakti: Aguas Da Amazonia

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUTVT7HzSg[/youtube]

Bee gees 'Alone'

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eaCpRs3gw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oCMB5zOL24[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrA-R5VHQs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmrR4fzFELI[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kj9XE88z0

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOmM7Wfgq-I[/youtube]

Sam & Dave burnin' down the house.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0PckuKd0o[/youtube]

Philip Glass - Mad Rush
It is maybe my favorite Philip Glass work.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YxpjjGaEOk[/youtube]
The song is ok but I like the lyrics more. They are by Edith Södergran and originally this poem is in Swedish. (I was a bit obsessed with Edith Södergran and her alleged female lover some time ago. I would like to understand her better.)

I long for the land that is not,
For all that is, I am weary of wanting.
The moon speaks to me in silvern runes
About the land that is not.
The land where all our wishes become wondrously fulfilled,
The land where all our fetters fall,
The land where we cool our bleeding forehead
In the dew of the moon.
My life was a burning illusion,
But one thing I have found and one thing I have really won -
The road to the land that is not.

In the land that is not
My beloved walks with a glittering crown.
Who is my beloved? The night is dark
And the stars quiver in reply.
Who is my beloved? What is his name?
The heavens arch higher and higher
And a human child is drowned in the endless fogs
And knows no reply.
But a human child is nothing but certainty.
And it stretches its arms higher than all heavens.
And there comes a reply:
I am the one you love and always shall love.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx41Jpl4[/youtube]

I'm not a religious person but this is amazing!