In Memoriam

Prompt: There is none, I'm just here to geek out :D

Okay, so I found this amazing song about... ten minutes ago. As you may have guessed (if you've read any of this blog), I am more than slightly obsessed with music. Okay, even that's an understatement, but that's all beside the point. The point is, I spend a great deal of time and effort in the quest for new music to keep my musical libido satiated. I go through songs really fast, and finding one that catches my fancy for more than a couple of days gets difficult, because I listen to them over and over until they're beaten into my brain.

You may be wondering by now what my point is, right? Well, I found a new song to geek out over. I love contemporary music, particularly music that mixes together many different mediums and elements into one big fat lovely package of wonderful melodic goodness. Choir, orchestra, rock and soloistic vocal all mixed into one... I could just melt.

It's not, of course, often that I find such an amazing work of art. People are not very big fans of what has been dubbed somewhat stereotypically to be "gothic rock". I, however, harbor a particularly guilty pleasure for it (because I know that everyone else in my house hates it and my friends don't particularly like it either... most of the time anyway).

So, I suppose I should get to the song, ne? I've known about the band Globus for a long time. One of my all-time favorite songs is Preliator--the song which ultimately led me to my Final Fantasy VII obsession and beyond. I wouldn't be where I am today without it (through a long and confusing chain of events which you don't need to hear about but involves copious amounts of anime, music, video games, my friends and our mutual obsessions with music). Suffice to say, Globus has always harbored a particularly special little place in my heart. Yesterday, I discovered that they have a new Album out called Breaking From the World, and on that album are several breathtaking pieces. I have found one that makes me positively giddy. It was like the freaking sky was opening up the moment I heard it. You can probably guess what it's called by the title of this entry, but I'll tell you anyway. In Memoriam is an amazing piece!

I have been searching for a beautiful, pure male voice for ages. It's so hard to find, because all I ever hear is the not-unpleasant but slightly raspy and not-quite-in-tune, sort-of-monotonic voices on the radio--country, rock, rap, you name it. I don't really fancy such voices. I love pure, perfectly in-tune sounds that ring in my ears and make invisible light drape down from the sky in beams of warm bliss. Okay, so, delusions aside, I found this piece and just had a meltdown.

I don't know who it is singing in there, but his voice is amazing. It's just so beautiful! (And I typically go for a female voice, particularly soprano range, because it rings so gorgeously.) By the time I was halfway through the piece, I was so distracted by it that I lost two games of Tetris and read the same paragraph of my Naruto fanfiction five times over without understanding a word. That is how awesome this song is!

Now I'm really tempted to go and look up the lyrics to it. It just makes my heart stutter and race. OMJ~ So pretty.... It's all in Latin, too, so I honestly have no idea what the guy is singing about, except that there are mentions of "love" and judging by the title, someone probably died.

This song is forever going to remind me of Maglor from the Silmarillion. This is exactly how I imagine his singing voice. God, I can't emphasize any more how much this song gets to me. It sends shivers down my spine... And the drums and rock elements enter at exactly the perfect time and blend just so with the choir in the background. The sheer strength of the piece itself just... Perfect orchestra backup at the beginning behind the beautiful feminine lead-in--not too fancy or overdone, but sweet in its simplicity--and then that voice... (Okay, I'll try not to go on about it anymore, but I just love it so much <3). And then the whole thing rises to an amazing peak that just makes reality completely disappear *sighs* Amazing... just amazing...

Yeah...

Yeah...

I should calm down now, before you think there's something seriously wrong with me. I think I'm done with my rant, or I'll start repeating myself even more than I already am. I will be on my way and I might write again tonight. Originally I was going to rant about my Concerto en Sol, because that's amazing, too, and I'm actually learning that one on the piano right now--well, only the second movement, because the other two are insanely difficult, but that's beside the point--so I'm done now. Yeah...