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Post by Adey on Jan 24, 2005 10:48:31 GMT
"Hello Earth" - was very much inspired by a male choir that I'd heard in "Nosferatu" and although the versus are a very different piece.... She does qualify that it's not hers but it stil doesn't explains who's it is? ???there is no credit on the liner notes of the album either. anyone got any comments on it? Thanks, Leon I think I read on Gaffaweb, that it was Russian (poss Georgia), But I may be wrong.. That it's uncredited confirms that it's a (lengthy) sample, rather than being a new recording done specifically for the 9th Wave. Sorry, can't be any more help than that.
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Post by Leon on Jan 24, 2005 19:03:07 GMT
(Peter Reich's father, Wilhelm Reich, was actually a 'scientist' (regard the quotes) who did research in 'orgone energy'. Don't ask me seriously what 'orgone energy' should be, but one of it's abilities should have been to make it rain. The story behind that is not sci-fi at all, it is true life (more or less). Wilhelm Reich was actually arrested by the government and died in prison, something the nine (or so) year old Peter couldn't comprehend as a child. Peter later wrote 'a book of dreams' to cope with that experience. -- Ulrich Grepel ) orgone energy is the same thing that the chinese refer to as Chi energy. it is the glue that holds everything together in the universe.It is the energy that we and all beings have and everything else for that matter that gives us life and form. That being said, Reich's work was in knowing how to minipulate this energy.One way was controlling the weather with his cloud busting machine.He could create rain storms and clouds by using the machine with a large body of water (a lake or pond) that he had on his property which he called Orgonon. He was being watched and harrased by Extra Terestrials while he was working and aimed the cloudbuster at their crafts and made them unstable in flight and was able to make them go away.this is one reason the government was watching him.
He also conceived Orgone therapy which is a form of psycho therapy which is still in wide practice. I know of a few places here in LA that do it. It has something to do with the human orgasm which Reich says has a two fold function.One is for reproduction and the second is for the discharge of excess orgone energy.He say's that we are bombarded all day everyday with Orgone energy all around us.So the orgasm helps discharge this energy out of our systems.He supports this concept by saying that women don't need to have an orgasm to reproduce.
Reich also worked with Einstein. They had a large falling out when Reich started coming up with theories and evidence that refuted some of Einstein's work thus contributing to Reich's incarceration. One of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
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Post by RA on Jan 24, 2005 19:15:36 GMT
I am so happy to have found this thread, let alone the group. I have some serious reading to do. I'm currently writing a book that I've spent near on 20 years thinking about and this is an inspiration to the content.
I don't know if this is what you finally need to answer your question Leon but, again, it makes for interesting reading.
[glow=blue,2,300]Cut'n'Paste comin' up as follows:-[/glow]
In the liner notes to Hounds of Love Kate "thanks" Werner Herzog, not specifying what for. Then, in Tony Myatt's Capital Radio interview, which was conducted for the Romford Convention last October or November, Kate said that she had got the men's choral section of "Hello Earth" "from" Herzog's "Nosferatu". She first identified the origin of this music as "Czech or Russian", then corrected herself by stating flatly that it was "Czech", adding that the music had sounded "truly holy" to her. (I don't remember the words exactly, but I have them on audio tape somewhere, and they are now in print somewhere in a recent "Homeground", which has been printing a transcription of the interview over the past two issues.)
At the beginning of the movie credit is given to Popol Vuh for the main score (IED foolishly paid $10.00 plus for the soundtrack LP in Europe last November, naively assuming that all the music from the film would be included). Below Popol Vuh's credit, two additional musical credits were listed, one for a passage from some Wagner opera or other (didn't have time to read it) and the third for "folk music" by some group (?) known as "Zinzcaro". This is almost certainly the credit for the bit of choral music in the penultimate scene which Kate used in "Hello Earth".
However, Kate's version is sung by a British choral group known as the "Richard Hickox Singers". In neither case are the words intelligible to IED, since he knows neither Czech nor Russian. He would be very interested to know what the words mean, or even if the same words are sung in both versions, even though it is admittedly highly unlikely that the lyrics' content bears any relation to Kate's theme in The Ninth Wave, or even that she ever bothered to find out what the words meant. It was clearly the sound that interested her, not the meaning of the words.
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Post by Adey on Jan 26, 2005 4:02:18 GMT
Looks like this one is going to run and run, but that's the most definitive theory/answer yet RA. I can't believe I didn't recgnise the Richard Hickox Singers..
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Post by Leon on Jan 26, 2005 19:18:51 GMT
RA, great super sleuthing on your research for the "Hello Earth"quandry. You might want to consider a position at Scotland Yard It seems though that the more one looks into the matter the more questions are raised, kind of like peeling the many layers of an onion but without the tears. I spoke to Darnelle the other day and it was great catching up.Thanks for her info. Leon
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Post by RA on Jan 26, 2005 21:04:44 GMT
Hey, Darnelle said so - I might send her this way as she's a KB fan. Great to put you guys back in touch (syncronicity in full working order).
Scotland Yard - now thats a career I'd not considered.
Take care
RA ;D
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Post by Adey on Feb 1, 2005 12:34:02 GMT
It occurs to me that with the release of a new album, some new personal appearances by Kate are a distinct possibility. Certainly a round of record shop signings was common practice for her at one time (allbeit probably at the insistence of EMI however).
With this in mind, some admirers of KB may yet get the opportunity for a limited encounter with her, which would perhaps give them the same sense of closure (I prefer to think of it as a sense of completion) enjoyed by Leon..
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