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Christopher Tin - Calling All Dawns - Full Angel City Chorale Concert with Lyrics

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There is plenty of elements in Christopher Tin's albums: it doesn't concern only music (of course, music is what ties all together), but also linguistics (every song is in a different language), literature (every text is an excerpt from a pre-existent text adapted to an original music), philosophy (the cycle structure of albums, their religious/social/poetic content); this is what, in my opinion, makes his work of great artistic and cultural value.

I wanted to study his songs, especially their texts, and the best way to do that was to read lyrics and translations simultaneously with the music; Christopher Tin allowes us to do that with a free download of his albums' digital booklets in his official website (https://www.christophertin.com/); anyway, to make things even easier, and to promote Christopher Tin's works, I created what I'd have liked to find when I just knew Christopher Tin, a Live with Lyrics; in this way, though songs are a little bit different, the vision is surely less demanding.

I have inserted lyrics where they were available (the choir in Lux Aeterna is an addition in the Concert, absent in the original, so it has no lyrics), removing silences between songs when they are absent in the album, and maintaining them in the spaces between the three parts of the album, marked by the moving of the sun.
I added some gold-texts when I found some melodies which are repeated in more songs; these melodies don't only give unity to the album, but also have some meanings that we are called to discover. The list of this melodies is at the bottom of the description.

#philosophy #literature #cultural #created #lyrics #video #Song

rogerbenham 8

Answer 1

I followed up on this post of your Roger & found that in 2017 Christopher Tin conducted a multicultural choir & orchestra at the Llangollen Festival. Sadly the video does not have the lyrics & translation like yours does & in some verses the choir & soloists in your version was preferred. On balance however I preferred this overall, the most notable exception was on the twelfth "Kia Hors Te Manno - May Peace be Widespread" where I most definitely preferred your video. I noted that in this video it is labelled as being the "most replayed"!

I also note that "Calling all Dawns" was first released as an album in 2009 but part had been used 4 years before that in a video game - [en.m.wikipedia.org] . . . The problem with being a recluse on the arse end of the world!

Answer 2

Superb.
I have just passed it on to a few with the following message:

I share with you what I think is a fantastic composition & performance that I have just been fortunate to have passed on from a Canadian correspondent. I found that verse 4. " Se É Pra Vir Que Venha - Whatever comes, let it come" gave me pause for thought from many perspectives.

Watch & listen to

- or forever regret never having heard it. IMO a superb composition & an enthusiastic performance by performers honoured to be chosen to perform.

Thanks for the introduction Roger.

Answer 3

Will save to watch in it’s entirety later…


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