Christopher Tin - Calling All Dawns - Full Angel City Chorale Concert with Lyrics
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- čas přidán 9. 12. 2014
- DESCRIPTION:
There is plenty of elements in Christopher Tin's albums: it doesn't concern only music (of course, music is what ties all together), but also linguistics (every song is in a different language), literature (every text is an excerpt from a pre-existent text adapted to an original music), philosophy (the cycle structure of albums, their religious/social/poetic content); this is what, in my opinion, makes his work of great artistic and cultural value.
I wanted to study his songs, especially their texts, and the best way to do that was to read lyrics and translations simultaneously with the music; Christopher Tin allowes us to do that with a free download of his albums' digital booklets in his official website (www.christophertin.com/); anyway, to make things even easier, and to promote Christopher Tin's works, I created what I'd have liked to find when I just knew Christopher Tin, a Live with Lyrics; in this way, though songs are a little bit different, the vision is surely less demanding.
I have inserted lyrics where they were available (the choir in Lux Aeterna is an addition in the Concert, absent in the original, so it has no lyrics), removing silences between songs when they are absent in the album, and maintaining them in the spaces between the three parts of the album, marked by the moving of the sun.
I added some gold-texts when I found some melodies which are repeated in more songs; these melodies don't only give unity to the album, but also have some meanings that we are called to discover. The list of this melodies is at the bottom of the description.
Hope you'll enjoy :)
SONGS LIST:
Part I - Day:
00:20 Baba Yetu (Our Father - Swahili)
03:53 Mado Kara Mieru (Through The Window I See - Japanese)
08:51 Dao Zai Fan Ye (The Path is in Returning - Mandarin)
12:28 Se E Pra Vir Que Venha (Whatever Comes, Let it Come - Portuguese)
16:31 Rassemblons-Nous (Let Us Together - French)
Part II - Night:
21:02 Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light - Latin)
25:17 Caoineadh (To Cry - Irish)
30:41 Hymn to Trójcy Świętej (Hymn to the Holy Trinity - Polish)
Part III - Dawn:
37:27 Hayom Kadosh (Today is Sacred - Hebrew)
39:25 Hamsáfár (Journey Together - Farsi)
42:30 Sukla-Krsne (Light and Darkness - Sanskrit)
44:49 Kia Hora Te Marino (May Peace Be Widespread - Maori)
RECURRING MELODIES:
Christopher Tin himself "has been meaning to do it for awhile now himself - make a video that connects all the musical motifs and stuff" (his words). So, since we know these motifs have a meaning in the album, I thought to wirte here what we have found so far. Recurring melodies found until now are:
- Life Sound: it is at the beginning and at the end of the Album. It is the main signal of the cycle structure, and it is at the beginning of Day (Baba Yetu - 00:15) and at the end of Dawn (Kia Hora Te Marino - 47:59); so this melody should be referred to both parts and to no song in particular.
- Ikubaku ka aru: it is a main melody in Mado Kara Mieru, but it appears also in Baba Yetu (02:25) and Hayom Kadosh (38:49), first songs of Day and Dawn. I gave it the name "ikubaku ka aru", since those are the words with that the melody is sung for the first time (05:55), and they mean "how much more is there to live?"
- Peace/Journey sound: this melody appairs in Se E Pra Vir Que Venha (14:13) and in Hamsafar (40:51), very joyous songs; i called it this way since peace and journey look to be the main two ways in that happiness appears.
The names I gave to this melodies are only interpretations, and their meanings could be different: free to give other meanings and to look for other repeating melodies. Other melodies found after the creation of the video and so not signed by the gold text:
- "Flute sound", a main melody in Lux Aeterna (22:02) that appears also in Baba Yetu (02:20) and in Hayom Kadosh (38:33) always a little before the "ikubaku ka aru" melody. [Found by Scott Johnson in comments]
- "Music Growing Up", is present both in Mado Kara Mieru (07:21) and Sukla-Krsne (43:10)
- "Hamsafar melody", (39:48), is also present in Kia Hora Te Marino (46:06), with so much evidence that I feel stupid for I had not noticed it before .-.
- "Rassemblons-Nous melody" (16:40) is also present in Sukla-Krsne (43:39)
I also notice a similar structure of Dao Zai Fan Ye and Lux Aeterna (few lyrics, central central plucked string instruments, similar ending)
Considering Caoineadh and and Hymn do Trojcy Swietej bound together, every song is so connected to an other. - Hudba
Much Gratitude, dear Christopher Tin!!! Such an inspiration, also the conductor and the singers, everyone!
The healing power of music! And of Poetry! This is what we need! Much love, Thilda
I have to disagree with most of the comments below regarding the choir's performance. Look at the faces of those singing, Baba Yetu, Mado Kara Mieru, Hayom Kadosh, etc; the singers are smiling. Theres totally passion there and you cant deny that. While I agree, yeah maybe they don't sing it the best as all these languages aren't well known to the singers, but you can tell everyone's having a good time and they love what they're singing.
I love this concert I use it all the time when I am doing my college coursework. It is also a good relaxer. Thank you Christopher Tin and the entire Angel City Choir for being with me in my academic journey.
"Religion is a personal thing, and people should not let their beliefs--whatever they are--affect others. I would prefer that my own beliefs not affect the way people enjoy my music, so I decline to comment on questions regarding my religion." Christopher Tin
Dear Giosialu, THANK YOU ❤for your DESCRIPTION & providing & translation of the lyrics~ enhancing enjoyment to this Epic work
Thank you so much for posting the complete concert, with the lyrics and some explanatory notes as well! I agree that this work is of great artistic and cultural significance. It's marvelous on many levels, and was a ray of light in 2020. I hope Christopher Tin gets more recognition.
Lovin this all over again today.... Thank you for sharing your gift....
WOW this Choir of voices, and all those Foreign Languages and Dialects... and Lyrics with English Translations..... THIS IS JUST ...... WOW 🤩‼️ BRAVA 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😍
Nice music, breath-taking performance, famouse texts and all together is so big! THANK YOU for lyrics! You are helping me to enjoy much more.
Discovered Christopher Tin on Pandora. Am even more impressed with him now. Wow, this music is epic.
What a wonderful presentation!!! Congratulations!!!
Wonderful conducting
Sempre um prazer, uma alegria ouvir esse coral. Simplesmente maravilhoso, um conjunto vocal que nos leva às alturas e nos chegar as nuvens. Vocês são terrivelmente, monstruosamente gigantes musicais. Nunca parem. Venham ao Brasil e muito, mas muito em especial ma minha humilde e calorosa cidade: Vitória da Conquista - Bahia
Não conheço vozes mais lindas que as das pessoas que formam este coral.
É tudo tão maravilhoso!!!
E fiquei tão feliz quando os vi cantando ""Se é pra vir, que venha!!!""
Nunca pensei que os veria cantando em português!
A maestrina está de parabens.
Lindo!!
Lindo!!
Esperamos por vocês aqui no Brasil...os receberemos de braços abertos!!!!
This performance calls to the soul. I congratulate this beautiful choir for the massive success this concert obviously is.
Wow, I wish I could take singing classes from whomever is leadning this choir. By no means are the singers perfect - the tones aren't always clean, they miss sometimes, but by god they're still some of the best singers I've heard. It's wonderful.
Sorry, but I can only think of one word to describe this performance - Awesome! Thank you for posting.
This just gives me chills, it's so amazingly beautiful and spiritual. You are wonderful, wonderful.
Thanks for this great moment with our soul ....
Just wanted to say, it was amazing listen to this performance.
Hayom Kadosh and the one in Farsi right after it was amazing... Also baba yeto and the one in Portuguese is always good. You guys are awesome
Cheers
E toda língua confessara que só ele é o Senhor
wow!!! i love this album so much!!
49:40. Made me cry. Her voice is amazing
Isso é lindo de mais
I'm polish
Hymn to the Holy Trinity.... Epic
The choir part... I felt like they were, actually, polsh :)
No doubt about it. 100%.spot on. Epic on a musical scale.
I really like this one with all of the different languages. Beautiful! This is great relaxing music too! I feel more at peace after listening to this! :)
really great performance, thanx for sharing :)
Une interprétation tout à fait convaincante d'une œuvre d'une diversité et d'une richesse qui ne cessent d'émouvoir, surtout quand on a eu la chance de l'interpréter.
Dieses Konzert ist wunderbar. Ich bin sehr berührt.
The most beautiful, haunting, uplifting, spiritual, thought provoking, moving, sensual and inspiring art I have ever heard and seen. To think I was introduced to this wonder through a facebook game back in 2011 (Civworld). Thank you Christopher Tin and the Angel City Chorale. You have picked me up in times of darkness, especially now - 2020/21. Humanity at it's very best!
Listening to it with chills. It's all astonishing, but the French song was unnervingly accurate in 2020! The highlights for me are the motifs that are shared as a thread of commonality between songs representing disparate cultures and languages. A truly spiritual work.
Beautiful...
Wameimba vizuri mno
Mbarikiwe🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
I loved every.minute of it.
Wow, I cannot thank you enough for this. It's truly awesome! I've always listened to these songs wondering what they meant. To get them in-time with the lyrics is sooo much easier. :D
Que maravilhoso apreciar e sentir vcs ❤🌷todos curtindo uns pelos outros😘muito lindo👏👏👏👏neste instantes sinto tão forte a presença divina bem perto de mim😄🙋porque meu coração está em paz🕊obrigada por tudo de maravilhoso que me ofertaram tanto bem🌷🌻
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MóDeus que interpretação maravilhosa!!! Voz Divina 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Bravissimi complimenti 🇨🇭👋👋🌟
THIS ALBUM IS GENIUS. I'm writing a script using his songs as inspiration
E p i c !!!
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Sensacional!
Baba Yetu always brings me to tears! Damn you Christopher Tin
Me too ! I love these guys singing it ! Have you heard the Sea Chanters sing it ? Fabulous !
Actually same.....
Sometimes I feel ashamed to be human. Then I watch this and I feel proud again
Wonderful piece of art. Also the video description is very detailed and informative. Pretty much the perfect upload. Thank you very, very much!
Top performances. All I hear is perfection and passion. This music is beautiful and the arrangements worked pretty good. The only thing I miss in video is flutist and trombones, but the sound is amazing, those heavenly chord progressions. This is a master work of a great composer. Thank you
Glória a Deus!!!!
Thanks for posting our performance. Subscribe to Angel City Chorale for more. We have uploaded our performance of Christopher Tin's newest song cycle the Drop that Contained the Sea
I've already seen all of the amazing performances many times :) I'd really like to do the same I've done here with the Drop that Contained the Sea, but at the moment I'm too busy :( Maybe I'll be able to do it this summer
Happy to announce that the Drop that Contained the Sea Lyrics Video is in work :) I hope to upload the video in a couple of weeks
giosialu can't wait
aeew czcams.com/video/hVwIvlc5eOY/video.html
Here it is :)
Wow I like it.
Many thanks!
Wonderful
Magnifico❤
For all the people trashing the performance of different languages, okokok... but you know what? YOU post yourself singing 10+ languages perfectly and ill give you a thumbs up lol
Simplesmente maravilhoso!
gracias!!!!!!!!
Linda música, divino
Simplemente maravilloso, increíble, lindo...
Sólo falto uno en mi idioma, se que es muy díficil por la fonética pero creo que udes pueden.
Bendiciones a Ángel City.
Si, hay una q Ellos cantam y que se lhama (creo) Los Peces....
Thx!
AMÉM!!! .... MUITO LINDA a musica e Bela orquestra.
Scott Johnson, I think you're right! That looks to be a main melody in Lux Aeterna and to appear in Baba Yetu and also in Hayom Kadosh, always a little before than the "ikubaku ka aru" one... really interesting :) :)
Looking forward to your Drop analysis!
Mon dieu que c'est beau !!!
Great work! I'd like to add that the flute motif at 2:20 is (I believe) the same at 22:01 in Lux Aeterna.
That's what I think, too :)
A clever hidden reprise?
Absolutely beautiful and uplifting. There is nothing wrong with the chorus.
PIU' LO SENTO E PIU' MI PIACE!!
Steeds weer kippenvel als ik het zie, beluister en meezing.......:)
Lindo coral
19:08 "Gaspard, fix your fucking glasses right now, god damnit!"
The Chinese pronunciation is soooo interesting hahahhahaa
the translation of the title is “道在反也”, which means the two sides of one coin are always balanced.
Did you know that the song:"Baba Yetu" was the title song for the video game CIVILIZATION? Fitting that the song was used for a game like this.
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The Baba Yetu's solo singer was a bit off at around 0:34 . But he is still awesome, especially in the drop contained the sea concert.
Солидно
Nice performance. Only the percussionist most watch to the director because many times they are too slow! Or it is a video/ recording problem.. But i don't think because the soloist and chorus are perfect on time.
21:09
It would be really great for Christianity if somebody could commission Christopher Tin to compose a Mass that could be used in the context of a Catholic or Anglican service with moderate resources. Unless he already did.
Baba Yetu!
Baba Yetu is the Our Father, which is found during the Litugy of the Eucharist. The parts of the Mass usually set to music are:
The Kyrie (Kyrie eleison, "Lord Have Mercy")
The Gloria ("Glory to God in the Highest")
The Credo (the Nicene Creed, "We/I believe in One God, Father Almighty...")
The Sanctus ("Holy, holy, holy Lord...hosanna in the highest:)
The Agnus Dei ("Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world ...have mercy upon us (2x) ...grant us peace (1x)
The Our Father is usually sung or chanted.
At Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal parishes where the effort put into music goes beyond a volunteer pianist or organist, the Kyrie is sometimes sung, the Gloria is always sung, the Credo is almost never sung, the Sanctus and Agnus Dei are usually sung. Sometimes the Kyrie is omitted or replaced with the Trisagion (in Episcopalian usage).
One requirement though that makes this challenging: the Catholic Mass is 60-75 minutes long when most of the parts are sung: priests and parishioners do not like it when the mass is lengthened beyond 75 minutes outside Ordinary Time, if only because most parishes offer two morning Masses. Episcopal services go longer, largely because the sermon is usually 2-3 times as long as in the Catholic Church.
Mozart's Masses (except for the Missa Brevis) and Bach's four-hour opus were reserved for other purposes of devotion or (more usually) entertainment.
Last comment: Baba Yetu is a tour de force for elite or professional choirs. It can probably be done with a trained cantor singing the solo parts and the congregation singing the choral part in unison, but some of the effect would be lost. Barring the congregation completely from the Our Father cannot be a good thing during Mass.
It´s difficult to me to understand most of the portuguese theme... i have to read the lyrics. Dulce Pontes should be more proper ... even though she sings in brazilian, this theme !!!... not portuguese. Nevertheless, i liked Kat Green´s interpretation, her musical expression. I loved this exotic musical presentation ! Bravo, thank you for this beautiful moment. Music approaches the people. Greetings to you all.
she's definitely not singing in brazilian
+Ruan Pablo Well, i can asure you that that is not portuguese, i am portuguese. The accent is more like brazilian, the phonetic is not portuguese. Do not misunderstood both idioms... portuguese and brazilian have lots of differences in phonetics, though, brazilian is more "sweet to the ear".
+Ruan Pablo By the way... it´s a lot more easy to speak brazilian than portuguese. That´s why she is singing in... something like brazilian... not portuguese, not brazilian, afterall, she is not port/bra !
Could you split these into separate videos for each individual song? I would like to post, say, Caoineadh on St. Patrick's Day with the lyrics translated. And choirs that are doing only one of the songs can focus on that song. Thanks so much for your work on this!
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I prefer the actual's lead singer of Baba Yetu
Just utterly incredible. giosialu - you have done some amazing, dedicated work - not far from the Angel City chorale themselves. :)
A remark - did you notice the connection to Nobuo Uematsu and his Final Fantasy orchestral soundtrack? specifically FF7, FF8, FF9. Recurring melodies #2, #3, #5 are from there, I am almost certain.
Give his sound tracks a shot. Try LiAWP_mclzY, starting at 54:51.
And of course, the Final Fantasy Main Theme (orchestral).
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+advance512 I never noticed that! Unfortunately I don't know that music so much, I started playing from FFX; but of course many people notice the connection of Haf Gengr Hriðum (from the Drop that Contained the Sea) with Liberi Fatali from FFVIII
+giosialu They *are* remarkable similar :)
I guess I love the FF7-9 music as much as I do because it brings back old, beautiful memories.. but it is indeed wonderful on its own, and worth getting familiar with.
44:49
It seems that in Maori culture they also used body and hand movements to express ideas.(last song). I don´t know.. does anyone knows if this is the case?
Of course, Maori culture is famous for maori dances, usually war dances; but of course, they usually make dances in group, so here we see only something much smaller
giosialu Great. thank you very much.
so how could Christopher Tin wrote all these pieces in different lang? some1else did the lyrics while he delivered the hymn?
He hired tutors to instruct him in the various languages on the proper pronunciation etc.
Słychać, że wokalista z polskiego fragmentu nie jest Polakiem, a szkoda. Miałem nadzieję, że podstawią Polaka z piękną artykulacją i dykcją.
5:37 my ears. T.T
+Alejandro Morilla Moreno Anyway I love this piece.
Does anyone know where I could find the orchestral scores for the Hymn to the holy trinity (minute 30:40). We would be so glad to play this wonderful work within our orchestra.
Good video for following along! The performances aren't quite as good as the album (the French singer's pronunciation is awful, that's the only one I can speak for). But the overall effect of knowing what is being said makes it more powerful. The Sanskrit one is particularly amazing live.
La prononciation du chanteur ne m'a pas déplu: ça reste compréhensible et ça peut donner un petit charme. Après merci les sous-titres...
Listening to the French pronounciation for Rassemblons Nous drives me absolutely crazy; way too bright, doesn't come across well (at least to my ear).
plus weird sounding lyrics in French
Well they've butchered the Portuguese pronunciation harder than the original singers (quite the feat, but even the Americans that live in my country seem to butcher it to some extent), but overall the performance is really good! Translation could be waaay better though, that's pretty unforgivable nowadays.
Should have been with an African choir🙄
That last song in Maori actually made me cringe, if it didn't have "- Maori" at the end of the title, I would have thought it wassupposed to be some other language I had never heard of
That conductor is distracting. I attended a performance of Calling All Dawns last night, where the conductor didn't compete with the performance.
The french song is painful to hear
Take a cough before singing, learn the notes. This is tragic. This Is not Christoper Tin music.
Beautifull songs, but in the 4th one, she is definitively not speaking portuguese how it should be spoken.
Not even close. The accent is so gross and disgusting.
Why they did this? =[
Hate to say it, but these white folk are so stiff and mechanical about it compared to the original Soweto singers. They're just reading it off page, note-by-note, with no soul.
kevnar Could not agree more.
kevnar Hard to have soul in a language that you don't understand. Of course they are reading it off the page, they don't know swahili.
+kevnar man...you are too hard on them... well, I agree with you though.
I agree with you, but as someone already said it's hard to sing with all your spirit when you can actually understand anything. I'm polish and there's in song in this concerto too. I know they're trying very hard but even though I barely can understand lyrics. I think their stiffness in singing comes from trying to do their best in pronunciation and note reading and I took we can forgive them.
Not agree. They begin stiff, but they evolve. They are also a classical choir. Not evident with people who dont sing etnical music It's not honest to compare that with the Soweto Gospel Choir. Its not the same choir, and SGC is one of the best soul/ ednical choirs in the world.
as much as I love mado Kara mieru they did a terrible Job singing it, probably the WORST song in this performance
i dont see whats wrong with this performance. they did great.
Totally sublime work, thanks for taking your time to do this @giosialu
This is a meditation...
Simplesmente maravilhoso!