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New Matt Harding Video on youtube
Sunday, June 22, 2008
My score/song for Matt Harding’s latest video is now up on youtube and Vimeo and has received over seven million views so far (first three weeks). For those interested here’s the link and my album notes that was not published with the song on Amazonmp3.com.
Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruYAmazon Link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001B8R3MS/Album notes “Praan”
Credits:
Music By Garry Schyman
Drums and Engineering Dan Blessinger
Vocals Palbasha Siddique
Guitars and bass Kevin Dukes
Concertmaster Belinda Broughton
Orchestral contractor Ross DeRoche (DeRoche Music Inc.)
Vocal Contractor Melissa Nixon
Lyrics adapted from the poem “Stream Of Life” from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
This song is my fourth collaboration with Matt Harding. How we met and got started working together is an interesting story in itself, without detailing it here I will just say it is one of those serendipitous events that can play a big part in ones life.
I wrote this music without particular lyrics in mind because, for one thing, I don”t really write lyrics. Matt would send me early edits of the video which I used to inspire me as I composed. I used my film and television experience to build the song in the appropriate places.
When it came time for lyrics and to find a singer Matt suggested that we consider non-English lyrics, which instantly sounded right to me. I immediately thought of Rabindranath Tagore who is considered the poet laureate of India. He was given the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for his English translation of his book of poetry entitled Gitanjali and was the first non-westerner to win the prize.
Matt was particularly fond of the poem “Stream Of Life” which seemed perfectly in tune with his video.
Bengali is a beautiful language so we decided to h...