Thursday, September 6, 2012
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Some songs are not only sounds that are floating words, not only the instruments creating musical waves, there are songs that are narratives, stories of love, lost and nostalgia. Regardless of the language, there are songs that convey the burdens of life on their lean shoulders. There are songs that carry someones life, or its message along without any intention. Without the musician being aware of it, or the singer knowing the message.
Sari Galin, or the "Golden Girl" carries my story, as far back as I remember this songs was the murmur in my mind, long before I hear it, and the first time the words of this song touched my ear I could sing along. I knew the rhyme, I felt I could understand Armenian. The golden girl, or as I like to translate it "Daughter of Sun" is love song of a lost. Its the story of a wine butler that is leaving her partner with coquetry. In fact its the partner who is telling us this lost.
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Arya--I am enjoying listening to this. We'll see where you go with it in relation to the American song tradition--whether in parallel or by contrast. I think it will be a good idea for you to deal with both--and that how you do so will be your "subject"...
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Please keep your blog up to date, Arya.
ReplyDeleteArya--I really expect you to make the blog a regular part of your work.
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