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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jdjtcagle on October 05, 2009, 10:09:33 am

Title: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: jdjtcagle on October 05, 2009, 10:09:33 am

This CD is incredible, it's 12 songs sung in 12 different languages.  The theme is the cyclic nature of life, day - night - dawn / life - death - rebirth.  The beginning song a lot of you may recognize if you've played Civilization IV it's Baba Yetu, which is the Lord's prayer in Swahili.  Each song goes into the next and the last song connects to the first so if you play them in loop it's like on giant well orchestrated piece.  Very talented and worth it to check out, I hope to be able to understand all of them one day. :)

I pre-ordered mine so it will come to me autographed, yay! We also got a complimentary download too.  He's a cool guy.

http://www.christophertin.com/
http://www.christophertin.com/callingalldawns.html - Samples

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Calling All Dawns is a song-cycle in three movements: day, night and dawn. Each movement corresponds to a different phase of life--life, death, and rebirth. In short, it's 5 songs about life, 3 songs about death, and 4 songs about rebirth. There are songs of joy, mystery, and hardship, reflecting the complexity of our mortal selves. There are songs of the deepest, darkest sorrow to accompany us through death. And finally, there are songs of triumph and exultation that bring us roaring back to life, beginning the cycle anew.

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: Solatar on October 05, 2009, 08:32:17 pm

Oh, I see one of their songs features the Anonymous 4.  Amazing vocal group; they did a concert at my university last year that totally blew me away.

Interesting stuff, listening to the samples now.

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: jdjtcagle on October 06, 2009, 09:28:50 am

That's awesome!  :eek:

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: Topgun on October 06, 2009, 10:11:07 am

wow, its beautiful.

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: lostllama on October 06, 2009, 01:49:14 pm

Sounds incredible. I just might buy a copy.

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: achtung on October 07, 2009, 12:05:29 pm

Really nice.   :)

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: swashmebuckle on October 07, 2009, 02:17:28 pm

Track 1: The Lion King goes Epic Chorale
Track 2: Chrono Cross goes Hans Zimmer

Will listen to more later to see if the pattern continues.  LotR goes Nobuo Uematsu? :lol:

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: jdjtcagle on October 07, 2009, 02:23:34 pm

:lol:

Track 6: Sounds like a James Bond film
The beginning of Track 3 (full song): Sounds like Oblivion

My favorites are track 2 (Japanese) and track 11 (Sanskrit)

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: jdjtcagle on October 08, 2009, 07:14:24 pm

I just got my autographed CD with a surprise!  He also gave a piece of his sheet music from Hymn Do Trojcy Swietej apparently from Abbey Road Studios, London.  I got the 5th page, it even has pencil marks on it.  I thinks that's pretty neat.  :D

Title: Re: Christopher Tin came out with CD
Post by: jdjtcagle on October 09, 2009, 04:37:11 pm

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