I don't really have time to blog today, but I wanted to share this video I found last night at Nag on the Lake (which I invite you to explore if you like TYWKIWDBI).
It took a bit of searching to find the lyrics (excerpted from Psalm 84) at Light on Dark Water:
"How beloved is your dwelling place,O lord of hosts,My soul yearns, faints,My heart and my flesh cry out.The sparrow found a house,And the swallow her nest,Where she may raise her young.They pass through the Valley of Bakka,They make it a place of springs;The autumn also covers it with pools."
You don't need the lyrics to appreciate the beauty of the harmonies. Had I heard this music without the video, I probably would have assumed it came from a synthesizer, similar to the many programs I've recorded from Music from the Hearts of Space. But these are human voices. Awesome.
I think that a lot of where you got the "synthesizer" feeling is due to the reverberance of the space. It is what I would have called professionally a very live room.
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ReplyDeleteI have often taken comfort in the fact that the altar of the Lord was a welcoming space for the sparrows. I doubt the Pharisees would have been very happy with that, but God is better than we think He is....
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