Language of the soul

Yesterday I found a blog with a video of Lisa Gerrard. And I was completely blown away by it. She has an incredible strong, haunting and sensitive voice. Of course I immediately had to go looking at Youtube to find some more about here. I found a lot already and I uploaded one below.

I also found another one where she talks about her singing. There she says something like:

"You let the language grow by itself, your own language. You have the ability to create a dialogue to make you travel to places more beautiful then we were ever promised"

This got me very much thinking about music. I thought this is really ‘making music'. These past few days I was thinking about these same lines when I watched Andrew Latimer of Camel play his guitar at a young age. Here the band was playing Lady Fantasy and you could just watch the music develop.

In the first part it is as he is discovering his guitar as a way to express himself. Especially at the end of that part he is really exploring every edge of it.

In the second part, after a sudden change, you can just watch his most amazing wondering about the beauty he and his guitar are capable of producing. He is almost feeling and searching for the next note. As if it is already there but he has to catch it before it is gone. And then when he has it, he wants to hold it.

Then in the third part, immediately after the beautiful lyrics, there is this repeating ‘I got it and I want to play it over and over again', as in a sort of trance. And then after the last change there is this ‘expressing it to the universe'.

Well, anyway that was the impression I got from it. But it felt like the same growing and creating a language that Lisa Gerrard was talking about.  

I also uploaded a few of her songs to my playlist on my recently discovered music site Deezer, where I found 7 of her albums. Just to listen for free!

So great to hear this kind of music on demand and it finally takes me away from  Youtube (where I also could make playlists) and where I sometimes could not stop watching the amazing facial expressions.

This I can play in the background and be finally able to get on with my work on the computer.