NOW ONLINE:
the complete "Dreams are buried here..." Part I-V
a project by Aeronaut - Artie Q - Mindmovie
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The "Dreams are buried..." piece is a collaboration with 2 dear friends from MI7 (and also on myspace - see my top friends): Artie Q and Mindmovie . They were both very important in the creation of the music, and especially for part III that was written by Artie Q, and part V that was written by Mindmovie. So a lot of the credit goes to these guys also, please remember that in your comments.
Normally I would created a special page for this project, but I like it simple and I prefer making music, instead of maintaining a lot of profiles on the internet.
A little history about the piece...
This 20 minute piece in five parts started with a simple piano piece on my piano, and a small piece of lyric I wrote some time ago in my scrapbook. I was visiting some deceased relatives graves when I stopped by a section where children were buried. At that moment the sentence "Dreams are buried here..." came into my mind.
I intended to write an instrumental piece with some voice-over poem. I talked about that to Mindmovie and he suggested that I asked Artie Q.
Artie agreed and did a great job on the vocals of part 1n called "Only the wind".
While I was writing part 1 we got a phonecall from a friend who told us that her brother had suddenly died at age 56.
That is when I decided to abandon the "children" theme, and I started on part 2, that was inspired by the green fields full of graves in the west of flanders where the thousands of soldiers who died in World War I are buried. I wrote a small poem and asked Artie to help me out with that. And so this piece became about lost dreams and unfulfilled lives of soldiers who died in the war.
In the meantime, Artie got inspired by part 1 also, and he asked me to send him the audio files of part 1, but at a faster bitrate. Since I program everything in midi, that was easy to do.
Some days later, Artie came up with "Falling", which I liked very much. I asked him if we could add it to the piece and luckily he agreed, so this became part 3.
My work on part 2 went on, and I decided to use an electric guitar in it. At first I also wrote it in midi, with a sample, but Artie suggested that I asked Mindmovie to give it a try. I thought this was a great idea and this was where Mindmovie came in.
In the meantime I was writing part 4, as some kind of conclusion to the piece. I asked Artie if I could use some of his phrases and themes from "Falling" to end and unite the pieces. I also used the guitar again, another job for Mindmovie.
This time it was Mindmovie who got inspired and I send him all the midi parts of part 4, and so he came up with part 5, for which Artie delivered some new vocal material.
Dreams are buried here... in five parts
I. Only the wind...
And somewhere
As moonlight falls upon these graves
We all turn silent and bow our heads
Too many, too young have died
Now, only the wind is whispering:
“Dreams are buried here...â€
Words & Music: Aeronaut
Vocals: Artie Q
II. Lament for the path of war
Green fields and countless graves
Witness in silence
The broken dreams
Of a son,
a father,
a mother,
a daughter,
brother
or sister...
The path of war
Offers the road to glory
But often ends here
A place where dreams are buried...
This part starts with weeping voices, lamenting the violent confrontation to come. Instruments argue with each other and the drums of war start to sound, taking us to the violence and confusion of the battlefield. Suddenly this all stops for the soldier who is killed, leaving his unfulfilled life and dreams on the battlefield... and also those of his family and loved ones....
Words & Music: Aeronaut
Vocals: Artie Q
Electric Guitar: Mindmovie
III. Falling
So many fallen, Graves as far as the eye can see, And all their hopes and dreams are buried here, But one or two remain, And I am One.
What of tomorrow, will I be here?
Sunshine or Sorrow?
Falling Down, Falling Down—And Getting Up And
Falling Down, To The Ground
Haven't got a clue, just the thought of you, that's what gets me through, I'd be lost ... without you.
So into battle, we ask youth to die
Too many dreams lost and no-one knows why
Falling Down, etc
I sometimes wonder, why did I survive?
I mean, why me?
Haven't got a clue, just the thought of you, that's what gets me through, I'd be lost ... without you.
An old man surveys a sea of graves; they belong to his fallen comrades from a war long ago. He ponders why he survived and they didn’t. In the song, he returns to his youth and the horrors of the battlefield. It was not “faith†that kept his hopes alive in the heat of the battle, but the thought of seeing his beloved, again. Though he survives, one image is forever etched in his memory: Falling Down ... Getting Up and Falling Down.
Words & music written by Artie Q - inspired by part 1 by Aeronaut.
Vocals & additional music: Artie Q
IV. What of tomorrow?
What of tomorrow?
Haven’t got a clue...
What of tomorrow?
Just the thought of you,
(Dreams)
That’s what gets me through
What of tomorrow deals with 2 questions.
How do you go on when the unthinkable has happened, and your loved one has become a name on a wall, on a cross in an endless field,... How do you go on with your life?
“What of tomorrow?†is also a more global question. Will humanity ever be able to solve our differences without turning to violence? How many wars do we have to fight... How many dreams will be lost?
Words & Music: Aeronaut
Vocals: Artie Q
Electric Guitar: Mindmovie
V. Just the thought of you...
A worthy conclusion to "Dreams...".
Written by Mindmovie - inspired by part 4 by Aeronaut.
Words by Artie Q & Aeronaut
Vocals: Artie Q
Electric Guitar & additional music: Mindmovie
Thanks to Mindmovie for mastering all the music.
Aeronaut • Artie Q • Mindmovie
The poppy pictures for the cover image were taken by my 15 year old son Corneel De Corte.
The poppy is used as a remembrance symbol for the fallen soldiers of World War I.
"In Flanders Fields" is one of the most famous poems written during the First World War, and has been called "the most popular poem" produced during that period. It is written in the form of a French rondeau. Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote it on May 3, 1915, after he witnessed the death of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, the day before. The poem was first published on December 8, that year in Punch magazine.
You can read more about it on Wikipedia .
This is the link to the "In Flanders Fields" museum
Songs of Love and Loss
For some time I have been working on a song cycle called "Songs of Love and
Loss". Since march this year I began recording the vocals with Ann Van Canegem, a vocalist with lots of experience in jazz and blues. This unexpected combination of my more classical background and her bluesy voice brings a special flavour to our music.
We are steadily recording and remixing all the songs and hope we will be able to release the album in 2008.
The cycle begins and ends with an instrumental piece: Opening "Love" and Closing "Loss".
I write music, because I simply have to. It gives me great pleasure just to play, compose, hearing what I have in mind come to life and in the end share it with other people... I hope my music can be a source of joy, comfort and perhaps even some cause for reflection for the listener.
Just one song in the player now, to make room for the "Dreams" project. However, you can still listen to the music in the flash player on the left.In The Light Of The Sun
“In The Light Of The Sun†is a song that is very dear to me. The song is about the passing of time, and how insignificant a human life is compared to cosmic scales.
I wrote the basic melody a long time ago (in human terms at least...) on my very first piano when I was about seventeen. Over the years I kept playing this piano tune and a few years ago I turned it into this song.
Like all my songs it has a certain sadness in it, although I don’t consider it as a sad song.
It is more a song about acceptance, letting go and humility.
It begins with a person who tries to hold on to a lost loved one, smelling the fading scent in his clothes and dwelling into her memories.
But, eventually - like everything - the scent will fade away. The memories of our memories will dissolve into time, “and all that we are is a speck of dust dancing in the light of the sunâ€. While I wrote this song I often had the image of particles of dust dancing in the sunlight shining through an attic window.
I wrote the backbone of this song with the guitars, harp and vibraphone ticking away time like a clockwork. Over this I wrote a waltz, like the dancing particles of dust in the light of the sun.
Again, Ann did a great job on the vocals and her voice makes the song shine like a sun...
Jef De Corte
"Voices" is broadcasted on Spirit Within Radio. Check out this peaceful station.
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