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The Silver Swan
by dirigent

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Submitted on: Feb 24, 2008 - 08:55:02 AM
Last Updated: Feb 24 2008 - 08:55:02 AM
Description Vocals: Elisabeth Warren (Rinca)
Lyrics: Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
all the rest: dirigent
Lyrics The silver swan who living had no note
When death approached unlocked her silent throat
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore
Thus sung her first and last and sung no more:
Farewell all joys oh death come close my eyes
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise
Hardware iMac Core Duo 24''
Software: Logic 7.2
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yohmar said 318 days ago
Grande
Much enjoying
along with Liz
simply great


Muchas Gracias

Camomilla said 318 days ago
Beautiful
Beautiful athmosphere

davidsmith99 said 318 days ago
Silver Swan
Another beautiful piece!
Great lyric. Wonderful voice. Nice acoustic ambience on it.
And then there's the sweet and mysterious music.

eleveneyes said 318 days ago
Heavy...
...Duty! Two words I'd never thought I'd use to describe a New Age tune but this is Heavy Freaking Duty! It scared me at times. I imagined myself in the long underground moving walkway in the United terminal at O'Hare international airport. However, I don't think I'd want to hear a song about dying swans right before I get on a plane. Elisabeths voice is absolutely stunning. This took me on a eerily surprising wonderful journey. Thanks!

said 318 days ago
a sad message
beautiful sung on wonderful music...

easyesteemer said 318 days ago
Awesome
Something different and truly interesting.

peacepiano said 318 days ago
Muse
Very interesting choice of poems. The sonic mood you produce works well with the lyric and Miss Warren's voice.

Thanks
Bill

Feter said 318 days ago
The Silver Swan
this is awesome project ...(Rinca) vocal work
is amazing ..the arangment of the music behind
her voice is so impressive ..Excellent !!!

lengold said 318 days ago
This is
something very unusual and disturbing. Extremely well performed and produced. I think it needs multiple listens and so have downloaded it. Thanks.
Cheers
Len



drakonis said 318 days ago
Schwannnnnnnn......
I like the choice of lyrics, the nice harmonies, and "Rinca"s singing is exquisite, very soulful. However, with the ethereal feeling of this, I found the sudden electronic synthy blips and bent-beeps and distorted beats/flute that appear between the stanzas to be a little distracting... I think it is because their more modern-sounding texture didn't seem to relate to the rest of the music and the lyrics. My mind could not connect the soulful echoes of the singing and beautiful chimes, to the modern bleeps and gritty beats that appeared in the middle. I feel I am missing an important connection or message with them.

But I love the haunting music and singing here.
ttfn,
Drakonis

drakonis said 318 days ago
Aha! A fool of a goose am I!
So, perhaps the beautiful music is the swan, and the gritty industrial music in the middle represents the geese? :-)

jiguma said 318 days ago
Classy, inventive
Stand out for me is Elisabeth's beautiful vocal, but a close second is the quality of the production (although the bass sounded like it was clipping on my phones). A really innovative structure and outstanding post.

Apart from the bass already mentioned, I'd probably prefer a little less reverb on Elisabeth's voice, but that is a very much a personal thing.

Congratulations- first class!
Neil

MIRx said 318 days ago
When is it
i can hug you both for this? this one takes me so far away in time and space, it's pure magic, with the kittie's irresistible voice making the perfect pair with your irresistible music!

said 318 days ago
Great
This sounds great.... Good vocals, and i like the instruments... I really take my hat off, for your arrangements... This song, and others i hear.... You're so cool to do this kind of music....

said 318 days ago
Amazing
Miss Warren fit right into the groove of this wonderful interpretive song...Bravo D

guitapick said 317 days ago
~
Very, very, very cool....

said 317 days ago
The Silver Swan
A nice female voice. The entire piece reminds me somewhat of 'Songs of Liquid Days', by Phillip Glass. Your music, as always, holds my attention!

said 317 days ago
deep and moody.
i like to listen to new age music to sleep by on nights when insomnia sets in. this will not be one of those songs. this is downright frightening. great mood, and deep emoting from the vocalist.
Allen

elfdaughter said 317 days ago
Gave me shivers
all the way down my spine. Even my dog perked up when rinca started singing... (actually, I think it was the bells, he has a thing about bells) Beautiful piece, though.

thetiler said 309 days ago
Enjoy
the music you are putting out. Like reading your bio!

Thanks for adding so much to MJ!

interesting approach to the bass and how it lays a deep sound in the background of the tune. Terrific contract to the voice, which sounds very much spot on in tonality!

Heightened said 306 days ago
Very cool collab!
And very cool lyrics that fit with the music perfectly. Awesome!!!

Artist Profile
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dirigent

Artist Bio Born 1963 in Munich, Germany. I've been working as a freelancing musician since 1980 and as honorary professor of choral conducting since 1995. At the University I'm teaching choral conductors, church musicians and composers, especially composers whose ma...[more]
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