In which I mean to play some songs about spring but get a little distracted by songs about mining, choral music, fado, a lullaby. Featuring Blaze Foley, Arvo Pärt, Fairouz, Charlie Chaplin, Jewish-Viennese composer Hermann Leopoldi and more…
I called the episode ‘Life, Oh Life,’ after the Romanian song which I play two different renditions of in this episode, but it appears a more accurate translation would be ”World, World”:
- World, world, sister world
- When will I have enough of you?
- World, sister world
- When I give up bread for Lent
- And the glass will give up on me
- World, sister world
- Maybe then I’ll have enough of you
- When they hammer the nails on my coffin
- World, sister world
- When they put me in my grave
- And I won’t be on earth anymore
- World, sister world
- ‘Cause that’s how the world is, transient
- One is born, another dies
- World, sister world
- The born one suffers
- The dead one rots
- World, sister world
Tracklist:
1. Spring Song – Charlie Chaplin
2. Lume, Lume – Maria Tănase
3. Horila Sosna (Four Slovak folk songs) – Železiar
4. Miner’s Dream – Nora Brown
5. Bill Dooley – Paul Clayton
6. Llef – Rhos Male Voice Choir
7. Psalm 117 – Arvo Pärt, performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
8. Maria da Graça – Carlos Ramos
9. The Moonlight Song – Blaze Foley
10. Schlummerlied – Zarah Leander
11. Die Welt in hundert Jahren – Hermann Leopoldi and Betja Milskaja
12. Za tú horú, za vysokú – Marie Freiová and Jana Hojdová
13. Bint El Shalabiya – Fairuz
14. Lume, Lume – Fanfare Ciocarlia
I have listened to this countless times. I won’t be exaggerating to say this is my favorite radio hour of all time. Kyra Ann’s voice, accompanied by what seems to be voices from all the languages and all the cultures in all the times and all the corners of the world, all unite into one voice, and this voice comes from a place where cynicism never existed, and where love, compassion, simplicity, compassion and tenderness truly exist. The tiny faults (Natan Alterman is no singer) only add to the perfect imperfectness or faulty perfection of this hour. A soft whisper of truth that travelled eons to call us away from the indifference of our times. This voice changed me. Thank you.
Wenn Ich eine Band haette wuerde nur diesen Lieder geschpielt!
Danke fuer die verschiedene genres Kyra.