Parachuting Birds

I have been working again over the past few months on lyrics and songs for Susumu Yokota, a wonderful Japanese producer. For the first time I was also commissioned to write lyrics to his melodies for someone else to sing, which was great fun, and totally different from how I usually write, as if I could be someone else for a day. Yokota's intentions and mood seemed clear in his music and it was like T'ai Chi on many levels, sticking to the intention behind the sounds and not working against them. Happily, he was delighted with the results and said they were just what he had had in mind. Anyway, I don't normally write about music here but Yokota has just emailed me a video of the person who is going to sing two of the songs, and it's so lovely an animation, and so joyful a song, that I had to share it with you, dear reader! Go watch it and the title of this post will make more (non)sense.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=EFTERKLANG&search=Search