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IAN 3/1/25 Music Therapy, Songs of the Earth [1]
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Date: 2025-02-28
While NOAA still exists as a public service, thought we’d grab the above screenshot. FL friends are having internet problems, so here is some nice music therapy. By no means a comprehensive list of songs for good ol’ Mother Earth. Just our top of the head playlist. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
The wonderful classic by Julie Gold, From a Distance. Truer words were never spoken:
Earthsong by Jennifer Castle. Very nice writing, harmonies. They say a man’s home is his castle, how are we treating ours?
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For some of you where it’s a little cold now, the Beatles favorite Here Comes the Sun. Their original version, not the remastered stuff.
Evolution by Ivan Lins, the great Brazilian songwriter — Here Susannah McCorkle starts with his preamble in Portuguese, but her lyrics are in English, crystal-clear. Very cool jazz classic, and wise words for our times:
Earthrise by Nicholas Ryan Kelly — imagine an astronaut, looking down from the moon on a warming earth. Just a gorgeous master class in modern choral composition. Words a little hard to read in the 6-part choral score, so here is the poem by Rhea Rose:
I left home./Here there are no/temples to Gaia./No sacred space/to embrace her delights./I walk not in moonlight/but on the old man’s face./From here I spy my home,/turning on a dark dais,/Her blue eye blinded/by her cities’ lights./I left home./From this moon’s base/I watch my blue mother/rise alone./Here no old stone/pillars stand to honour her,/no words speak to her/green passages,/no praises to/her nature’s legacy./I left home./While within this tranquil sea,/standing in an astronaut’s debris,/Somewhere out there/rituals to her melt/in hot deserts getting hotter.
Out here, no celebrations/of her body, from which/I can never wean./I carry forward her water,/Lift her air to the cosmos,/Part her blue horizons with/A spaceman’s speed./I left home./First, erased her, chased her down,/Bled out her purity, burned her coal bones,/Turned her turning from blue to black./Gaia’s children left her like kids do./Only Wiki knows the details of the exodus./There’s no return. I left home too.
The Secret Life of Plants by Stevie Wonder, his most musically advanced compositions. The first one, Earth's Creation, is a strangely haunting March in 5/4. The Garden at 4:03 is a simply beautiful Chaconne, great counterpoint.:
Mahler, Song of the Earth - an existential reckoning for the great composer, really almost his 9th Symphony. Scored for orchestra and voices, meditating on the sorrow and transience of life. Six movements, here is some poetry from the first:
The heavens are ever blue and the Earth
shall stand sure, and blossom in the spring.
But you O man, what long life have you?
Not a hundred years may you delight
in all the rotten baubles of this world.
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