Surpinto wrote: ↑<span title="Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:37 pm">3 months ago</span>
filiarheni wrote: ↑<span title="Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:38 pm">3 months ago</span>
Surpinto wrote: ↑<span title="Tue Aug 27, 2024 10:31 am">3 months ago</span>
I think this album will more clearly represent the vision that Sam and his colleagues have for the choir and their music going forward, so I'm very interested in what they have in store for us.
But what do we need it for? I mean, why a certain way forward vision? This album like the ones before will be a very colourful album with the difference that more alumni contribute their compositions to "Dream". But the diversity of the music began with "Hope" already. (I will exempt "If", because Robert - I have no doubt about that - meant "If" to be his farewell album to everybody and to this world.)
I also think that there's no need to take decisions about a certain direction, but rather go on trying themselves out with a common musical denominator though, which are their features that make their music unique, but impossible to put them into a drawer - just going on to take their choir name literally.
Or did I get you wrong?
I think you might be reading way too much into what I said . My statement about "vision" was intended in the broadest of meanings. The vision does not signify one specific musical style or song type, but concerns how this current team approaches a new album. I'm referring to their vision of what constitutes a Libera album in 2024.
What ratio of song types/styles should be displayed, how the tracks are ordered on the album, how many brand new songs versus old songs, etc. These all display a unified and general vision for the album. In fact, we can already see that their vision includes many brand new songs as opposed to recordings of old ones.
At first, I'd like to clarify (just in case) what I meant with "put in a drawer". We use this expression over here for assigning something to a fixed category that's hard to escape. It was not meant as laying something aside as uninteresting.
However, what you describe about Libera's approach to a 2024 album: Isn't it "just" a consequence from the developments during the past years until today, exactly the high number of new songs? I'm in no way intending to detract anything from the upcoming album we are all looking forward to, but I find it no less than logical what is happening right now.
When Libera still had Robert, he was taking care of the music and was more or less the only one belonging to Libera who composed music for them. Plus having to record an entire album every year means much pressure. Therefore, IMHO it's understandable to revisit existing songs to fill the albums without having to start at the very beginning: composing or writing something new on a classical piece.
Now this has become easier, because thankfully many alumni, who are probably deeply interested in having Libera continue, are joining in the composing work. (And everyone - the choir, the audience and the composing alumni themselves - benefit from that.) So Libera's access to new pieces has become easier, because the number of Libera-own contributors they can draw from has increased and the work can be shared.
It goes without saying that the music will be very diverse for the same reason.
I love all of that - not that anyone thinks I will not! I just think that this album is a quite self-evident result of what's going on in the group.
Perhaps some of song-writing alumni will withdraw sooner or later, perhaps others will come instead or on top. One thing is certain: It will not stop being exciting!
Regarding the order of the album songs, I found that an interesting question some time ago too, while the Japanese versions have a different order, I believe.
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