The Art of Song
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The mysterious alchemy of combining music with words has stimulated and challenged composers across cultures for millennia and given rise to a vast diversity of approaches, forms and genres: from art song and opera to blues and soul, from the religious to the secular and the spiritual - to songs without words and instrumental works whose catalyst may of been a text or a poem.
I have long been intrigued with this magic and the projects I post here are interested in creating music both in response to words and in support of words.
I wrote this song as a response to the unfathomable but all pervasive presence of time in our lives. This demo recording was made in New York in December of ‘21 with the help of Stav G on vocals, Leo Lucini on bass and Yana Davydova on guitar, followed by a final touch of trumpet with Audun Waage in Barcelona.
what it does
all I know
is that time what it does is go
it doesn’t matter if it’s raining
it doesn’t mater if it’s snowing
it doesn’t matter if you’re stopping
‘cause it, just keeps on going
it doesn’t matter where you’re born
or when, or why, or how
‘cause time, it seems to have no master
rich or poor, or in between
there ain’t no cracks it don’t get into
no days that pass it by
and once it’s spent for you
it’s gone forever
it’s running right on through you
now it’s passing right on by
you cannot take a hold of it
but it holds on to you - that is
until it lets you go
the final liberation
from all you think
you know