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Listen, the snow is falling (Part 1)

from Recitement [Album] by Stephen Emmer

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    Recitement is an exciting mix of music and spoken word.

    The combination of pop music and spoken word is a phenomenon in the music history. Recitement contains 17 different compositions in 7 different languages and styles, arranged and composed by composer, arranger and musician Stephen Emmer. Recitement can be characterized as both retro avant garde and accessible.

    On Recitement everything comes together: past and present, death and life, writers and singers, poems and music. Is it Spoken Word Pop? Is it a contemporary audiobook? Or is it music album? Recitement is all of the preceding.

    The album is mixed and mastered in NYC by Tony Visconti and features several musical performers such as Blonde Redhead singer Kazu Makino, jazzmusician Benjamin Herman, legendary pianist Mike Garson (Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins), classical singer Maja Roodveldt, old school rapper Shyrock, Joost Kroon of New Cool Collective and popduo Bauer.

    Vocal performers are Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Kristel (Emanuelle), Kurt Schwitters, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Michael Lonsdale, Sacha de Boer, Ken Nordine and Richard Burton.

    Literary sourcetexts are from Charles Baudelaire, Yoko Ono, Samuel Beckett, Alessandro Baricco, Christopher Fry, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Paul Theroux, Victoria Ocampo, Remco Campert, Hugo Claus and Thomas Hardy.

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lyrics

Snow is falling everywhere
Snow is falling all the time
Between a milk-bottle and a beer-can
Between Empire State Building and Trafalgar Square
Snow is falling everywhere
Snow is falling all the time
Snow is falling everywhere
Snow is falling all the time

Only the words break the silence, all other sounds have ceased.
If I were silent I’d hear nothing.But I were silent the other sounds would start again, those to which the words have made me deaf,
or which have really ceased. But I am silent, it sometimes happens, no, never, not one second.
I weep too without interruption.
It’s an unbroken flow of words and tears
With no pause for reflection.
But I speak softer.

Snow is falling all the time
Snow is falling everywhere

credits

from Recitement [Album], track released March 3, 2015
S. Emmer & Y. Ono

Arrangement: S. Emmer & T. Visconti
Vocals: Kazu Makino, Tony Visconti
Guitars: Stephen Emmer, Jac Biko, Tony Visconti
Piano, keys: Stephen Emmer, Tony Visconti
Bass: Stephen Emmer
Drums: Joost Kroon

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"In these historical and difficult times in the year 2020 this is music meant to sooth the pain of social distancing for the isolated listener, made by a composer in self quarantaine."

Stephen Emmer

15 May 2020
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