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Stranger In Paradise
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From the Movie KISMET.
keyboard piano instrumental smooth uk pianist solo organ
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Retired Musician and Magician. Happy Christmas 2025 and Happy New Year 2026. First joined Soundclick 2006!
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Piano
Charts
Peak #1
Peak in subgenre #1
Author
Alexander Borodin / Wright/Forrest (Kismet)
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August 04, 2020
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MP3 7.3 MB • 320 kbps • 3:12
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WAV 32.3 MB
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Vocals
No vocals, instrumental only
Character
Energy
relaxed, cool
high-energy
Danceable
coffee-place
dancefloor
Story behind the song
I recorded this in 2013 basically off "the top of my head". I am familiar with the Borodin melodies, and also the Movie "Kismet" which switches from being sometimes quite amusing, to being cheesy and badly produced. The camera work is lousy in some scenes too. There are 3 good songs in Kismet - Stranger In Paradise / Baubles Bangles and Beads / And This Is My Beloved. Ok, so Composer Alexander Borodin wrote the main theme for the Opera "Prince Igor" which premiered in 1890. It was for a scene "The Dance of the Gliding Maidens" (I think). Fast forward to 1953 and Wright/Forrest added lyrics and a rather clever new "Middle 8" to the piece as "Stranger In Paradise" for the lavish but badly flawed Musical "Kismet". The Movie tries to mix Jazz numbers with awfully "cod" versions of Alexander Borodin's melodies. Combine this with it being set in a cardboard version of Baghdad. But do watch it as there are some amusingly witty little gems in the script. I've re-worked it as WAV, and added subtle dynamics and more light and shade to the recording. The Piano? It sounds like my old Yamaha Clavinova I sold and sent off to a lovely family in Scotland a good few years ago. I also had a P95 then in 2013, but I'm 99% certain this is the Clavinova (wow, I should have kept this piano!!).
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AlexisPatrick
Aug 14, 2020
Congratulations for your Number One in Classical. Beautiful song!!!!
AlexisPatrick
Aug 04, 2020
Stranger In Paradise. So very beautiful and also, it has an epic quality about it. You are a genius of a musician.