The Drop That Contained the Sea
~ Release by Christopher Tin (see all versions of this release, 3 available)
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Each track of the album is sung in a different language. The track list, with language noted, is:
- Water Prelude – (Proto-Indo-European, plus words from all 10 languages on the album)
- Haktan Gelen Şerbati – "The Drink from God" – (Turkish, adapted from a poem by Yunus Emre)
- Temen Oblak – "Dark Clouds" – (Bulgarian, adapted from a poem by Hristo Botev)
- Iza Ngomso – "Come Tomorrow" – (Xhosa, adapted from Keramos by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- Tsas Narand Uyarna – "The Heart of Snow" – (Mongolian, adapted from ancient Mongolian texts)
- Passou o Verão – "Summer Has Gone" – (Portuguese, from Sonnet CXCV by Luís de Camões)
- Devipravaha – "Goddess River" – (Sanskrit, from the Gangashtakam by Adi Shankara)
- Seirenes – "Sirens" – (Ancient Greek, from the Odyssey by Homer)
- Haf Gengr Hriðum – "The Storm-Driven Sea" – (Old Norse, from the Poetic Edda)
- Waloyo Yamoni – "We Overcome the Wind" – (Lango, from a rainmaking litany)
Source: liner notes of CD Release.
Annotation last modified on 2014-05-17 02:44 UTC.
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ASIN: | US: B00JUBAM9Y [info] |
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purchase for mail-order: | http://www.christophertin.com/presale/ [info] |
VGMdb: | https://vgmdb.net/album/45278 [info] |