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Unquiet Thoughts
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Haunting Dowland 16. century poem with music written by Solvi Eriksen Kvam
acoustic folk celtic folk rock folk and celtic
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Folk & Celtic - an Acoustic an melodic experience inspired from English and Celtic music.
Folk & Celtic is a group with deep connections to English and Celtic music with a mutual objective to create and convey a euphonious and melodic acoustic experience. The music has its main focus on the vocals which are supported by a tasteful and rather minimalist accompaniment. Three of the members of the group also play together in the folkrock band FolkPort. They collaborate closely to develop the vocals and the total sound and expression in their music. Folk & Celtic sometimes also perform live in concert.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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Peak #635
Peak in subgenre #111
Author
John Dowland / Solvi Eriksen Kvam
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November 19, 2010
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MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 4:34
Story behind the song
Dowland's obsessive melancholy thus appears from the outset and is never far away. Sleep and death are sought to provide a longed-for release from earthly cares, and although this was very much an affectation of the time it was one which clearly excited an acutely personal response in him. Death, of course, has a sexual connotation too--but even when this is absent or heavily overlaid, his treatment of the idea frequently has an erotic intensity.
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Unquiet thoughts, your civil slaughter stint, And wrap your wrongs within a pensive heart: And you: my tongue that makes my mouth a mint, And stamps my thoughts to coin them words by art, Be still: for if you ever do the like I'll cut the string that makes the hammer strike. But what can stay my thoughts they may not start, Or put my tongue in durance for to die? When as these eyes, the keys of mouth and heart, Open the lock where all my love doth lie; I'll seal them up within their lids for ever: So thought's, and words, and looks shall die together. How shall I gaze on my mistress' eyes? My thoughts must have some vent: else heart will break. My tongue would rust as in my mouth it lies, If eyes and thoughts were free, and that not speak. Speak then, and tell the passions of desire; Which turns mine eyes to floods, my thoughts to fire
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chacianego
Dec 26, 2010
Preciosa musica,gracias por compartirla,suerte y mucha salud.