TORI AMOS "Star Of Wonder" notes
When i first heard Tori's interpretion of a handful of christmas songs and her elaboration's and original comps , i was in tears!!!
Tori had dug into original text and melody, she created her own harmonic structures and she stamped them her own!!!!
Our thoughts when arranging these beauties on MG>
The influence of historical lyrics and melody, coupled with Instruments from the East, Europe and Africa , are all about the origins of the "christ" philosophies ,, be it from
Pagan (mythrisism), Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism (Krishna), Islam (Muhammad),
Buddhism (Bodhisattva) or Animism .
These "Christ's" were humanities first steps in the realization that humans may be individually worth a damn and maybe able to transcend the chaos of a finale demise by wolf, automobile or even natural causes.
Star of Wonder is a great synthesis of these concepts
The intro uses the Turkish cumbus and strings into Matt's and Jon's superb medieval/mideasten groove
The Cumbus is not only a great instrument but so connected with the Turkish freedom movement and modernism of the 20th century . read
http://www.rootsworld.com/turkey/cumbus.html
Tori summons the perfect fusion of her wurly and melody , for a call and answer from the strings in eastern style.
Leading to the West in the symphonic interpretation of the Choruses and the Out Choruses bring both together.
I kept thinking, Sergei Prokofiev's, Alexander Nevsky, with out the conflict,
and the russian orthodox replaced by the middle east.
Ya that might seem a stretch but it made sense to me. LOL
SO THERE U HAVE IT
oh and for further listening
my favs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_%28Prokofiev%29
fav examples of call and response in Middle Eastern music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warda_Al-Jazairia
Tori had dug into original text and melody, she created her own harmonic structures and she stamped them her own!!!!
Our thoughts when arranging these beauties on MG>
The influence of historical lyrics and melody, coupled with Instruments from the East, Europe and Africa , are all about the origins of the "christ" philosophies ,, be it from
Pagan (mythrisism), Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism (Krishna), Islam (Muhammad),
Buddhism (Bodhisattva) or Animism .
These "Christ's" were humanities first steps in the realization that humans may be individually worth a damn and maybe able to transcend the chaos of a finale demise by wolf, automobile or even natural causes.
Star of Wonder is a great synthesis of these concepts
The intro uses the Turkish cumbus and strings into Matt's and Jon's superb medieval/mideasten groove
The Cumbus is not only a great instrument but so connected with the Turkish freedom movement and modernism of the 20th century . read
http://www.rootsworld.com/turkey/cumbus.html
Tori summons the perfect fusion of her wurly and melody , for a call and answer from the strings in eastern style.
Leading to the West in the symphonic interpretation of the Choruses and the Out Choruses bring both together.
I kept thinking, Sergei Prokofiev's, Alexander Nevsky, with out the conflict,
and the russian orthodox replaced by the middle east.
Ya that might seem a stretch but it made sense to me. LOL
SO THERE U HAVE IT
oh and for further listening
my favs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_%28Prokofiev%29
fav examples of call and response in Middle Eastern music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warda_Al-Jazairia
posted by John Philip Shenale at
1:22 AM
7 Comments:
"Russians die on the ice," eh? I forget how much influence the Russians have on Tori. Thanks for this post, and thanks for your incredible arrangements!
Thanks Poguego
AN always tears me up !!!
An additional comment.
One more thing about Star of Wonder. So that there is no confusion.
The Cumbus and Strings were performed on a sampler .
The String multisamples chosen were a very small and tight group of
violins, violas and cellos.
All performed and articulated seperately by me . IMO, live strings would
not have been right. My "sampler" performances fit the track sound and groove.
Philip i just LOVE Star of wonder...just..incredible! reminds me to the wonderfull song of loreena mckennits "Kecharitomene" u know! i just adore the fusion of the strings and wurly, and wonder other songs like that! congrats u 2! love u =)
Thanks Matt ,
I'll check her out.
Her music always moves me and leaves me in tears. I love Star of Wonder and this entire album. Just gorgeous and healing.
thank you so much carla.
know that it is healing to us too.
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