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from Elise Witt’s We’re All BORN SINGING
Film directed, edited and filmed by Jessica Lily.
The first song on my new CD “We’re All BORN SINGING” explores my fascination with sound and language. Musings on how we hear, listen and learn, are sung over Vocables by the wonderful Becky Reardon, and interspersed with my take on Late Night Short Wave Radio segments featuring some of my Global Village Project students along with Rodger French on accordion (check out his wonderful new CD Che Accordeon!), Italian virtuoso Renato Pompilio on guitar, and the inimitable Mick Kinney on piano. Please check it out, leave me a comment and share far and wide – Thanks!
© Non Si Sa Mai Music ASCAP
Filmed, directed and edited by Jessica Lily. (www.Jessica-Lily.com)
In the video: Elise Witt, Julienne, Aline, Sifa, Zai, Siang, Par, Milly, and the Eliyah Sisters – Eliza, Rehema, Dina
Vocables: Becky Reardon
Late Night Short Wave Radio Segments:
– “I love to sing in…” Swahili, Lingala, Kirwanda, French
– Song fragments: Amani (Swahili), Baba Saidiasis (Swahili, Congo), Dicitencello Vuje (Napoletana)
– Voices: Eliza, Dina & Rehema Eliya, Par Tha Lem, Deborah Uwize, Glory Shay, Sophia Uwineza, Eh Soe Moo, Gaelia, Moudilou, Sifa Leta, Aline Lubala, Julienne Macumu, Elise Witt
– Instrumentalists: Rodger French (accordion), Renato Pompilio (guitar), Mick Kinney (piano)
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EARBONE
The first bone in the body
The first human bone
The first bone to develop is the Earbone
Babies have all the sounds of the universe
We are born vibrating every sound on earth
Sound goes on forever
To learn the language you will speak
You eliminate the sounds you won’t need
What about those sounds no longer in play?
Are they stored somewhere deep
Or just thrown away?
Sound goes on forever
I like to think of my songs’ journeys
Flying to places I may never see
Finding your window, slipping on through
Tickling your earlobes
Curling up in bed with you
Sound goes on forever
If I forget to think will I remember it all
Maybe all sounds are at my beck and call
Once you make a sound
You can never take it back
It’s floating in the universe
Among the zodiac
Sound goes on forever
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