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the hours rise up
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The haunting lyrics of e. e. cummings set to a jammy jazz with harmonies and doubling, cajon, shaker, hand drum
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Yakobius Ben Yakobius, mystic of music, plays for you with all the duende of his being.
Yakobius ben Yakobius, a living musical instrument, has lived throughout time. In this concept album, Yakobius takes on the Americana form through the body of some petulant fool. Pay no attention to the man holding the guitar! The Birth of Yakobius - takes you through an 8-track cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. Beginning with the spiritual chants and feels of the Middle East, inspired by Omar Khayyam, and progressing through time. Presented are the poetic works of maestros Edgar Allan Poe, e.e. cummings, and Walt Whitman.
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Genre
Jazz Jazz Vocals
Charts
Peak #111
Peak in subgenre #15
Author
cummings/Levis
Rights
November 2007
Uploaded
November 23, 2007
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MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:34
Lyrics
the hours rise up putting off stars and it is dawn into the street of the sky light walks scattering poems on earth a candle is extinguished the city wakes with a song upon her mouth having death in her eyes and it is dawn the world goes forth to murder dreams…. i see in the street where strong men are digging bread and i see the brutal faces of people contented hideous hopeless cruel happy and it is day, in the mirror i see a frail man dreaming dreams dreams in the mirror and it is dusk on earth a candle is lighted and it is dark. the people are in their houses the frail man is in his bed the city sleeps with death upon her mouth having a song in her eyes the hours descend, putting on stars…. in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems
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