Today’s anthem. I really like the fanfare at the 3:20 mark.
Here we are
Oh we yearn to surrender in the arms
Of a thousand trees
Away, in the sunset
Music for watching goldfinches feed.
This solo performance is by Arthur. The entire album is worthy listening. The brothers were both still in their teens when it was recorded.
The Lamb by John Tavener, composed in 1982, performed by The Trinity Choir, conducted by Daniel Taylor. This recording was made in 2015. The text is adapted from William Blake’s poem in Songs of Innocence, published in 1789.
Musical accompaniment for the previous post: a sweet instrumental by Andrew Bird. From the album Echolocations: River, 2017.
“Keep Moving” by Bronson.
The corporate hellscape depicted in the video was created by Swedish collective Stylewar, who manipulated stock footage to create the chaotic imagery.
From Stylewar’s press release: “The pull to use stock footage became centered around this niche subset of content for the corporate business world, for it can be so cliché and mind-bendingly generic. We love how hyper-generic it is, in every detail. From cast, wardrobe, props to locations and especially the acting— it’s all super shallow and false. So, with this as a base, we wanted to create an alternate reality: what would happen if there was a complete inversion to this world and sense of order. Are they all fake? Is everything fake?”
Is everything fake indeed.
New music from Jesse Epstein and Adam Arcuragi.
“È un foco quel d’amore” from Agrippina by George Frideric Handel, libretto by
Vincenzo Grimani, 1709. Soprano Lisa Saffer sings the role of Poppea
in this 1992 recording by the Capella Savaria.
È un foco quel d’amore,
che penetra nel core,
ma come, non si sa.
S’accende a poco a poco,
ma poi non trova loco,
e consumar ti fa.
Love is a fire, of that sort
which invades the heart:
but how? Nobody knows.
It is kindled ever so slightly
to the point where, having no further fuel,
it turns upon you.
I am free
I don’t know if I’m happy
It helps me from being alone late at night
It helps me from being lonely late at night
I don’t feel so bad now in the car
Don’t feel so alone, got the radio on
Like the roadrunner
That’s right
Big thanks to @axelrod for the song.
Dithyramb 