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- Improved mixing
- On some tracks better versions, for an example on "The bells" a better sounding guitar and improved Bell-sounds
- A hidden Bonus-track
- A sixteen pages full colored booklet
- Full lyrics of all poems
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After some covers and collaborations it's time for a new original heartscore-song.
The poem was written by the famous Emily Dickinson and if you start to read it, it's clear after the first few sentences, that the narrator is not in a good condition. But he or she tells us not directly, what she is suffering from. It is not death, nor night, nor frost.
In his analysis of the poem Robin Ekiss comes to the conclusion, that the poem is about adolescence angst:
"It’s here that Dickinson’s poem stages a “battle of the bands,” as secular and spiritual music duel it out. If despair was a song, wouldn’t it sound like this: clipped, repetitive, taut—as imperative as church music, as regular as a ballad’s refrain? In the face of internal—and eternal—questions about loneliness and self-loathing, Dickinson’s poem is a rebellious music that laments those particular states of adolescence we never quite outgrow."
The strong musical rhythm of the poem struck me and motivated me to set it to music. The song developed to a Swing-Rock-Fusion. If you think, that the part starting from "But most like chaos …" sounds weird I tell you, that I used chords with unusual roots/ bassnotes. Something John McLaughlin did often with Mahavishnu Orchestra. It's also called Slash-chords.
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lyrics
It was not Death, for I stood up,
And all the Dead, lie down -
It was not Night, for all the Bells
Put out their Tongues, for Noon.
It was not Frost, for on my Flesh
I felt Siroccos - crawl -
Nor Fire - for just my marble feet
Could keep a Chancel, cool -
And yet, it tasted, like them all,
The Figures I have seen
Set orderly, for Burial
Reminded me, of mine -
As if my life were shaven,
And fitted to a frame,
And could not breathe without a key,
And ’twas like Midnight, some -
When everything that ticked - has stopped -
And space stares - all around -
Or Grisly frosts - first Autumn morns,
Repeal the Beating Ground -
But most, like Chaos - Stopless - cool -
Without a Chance, or spar -
Or even a Report of Land -
To justify - Despair.
credits
from Heartscore,
track released November 6, 2015
Chris: Lead vocals
Dirk: Guitars, background vocals, production, artwork
Lyrics: Emily Dickinson
Instruments used: Ibanez FRM100, VSL Jazz drums, NI Musicman
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