Voyage 6: Sunrise, Tahiti
Liner Notes
VOYAGE 6: SUNRISE, TAHITI
#cruiseship #pacific #neoclassical #piano #quiet
Early morning on the 7th day of the voyage: the ship's motion, never very pronounced because of the stabilisers at work, seems to have changed and, being used to sleeping attuned to sea and wind--a function of cruising in small sailboats--one inevitably awakes. The sea is calmer than normal, the south-east trades seem blocked, not just sleeping, the sun is not far below the horizon, and in the early morning moist haze, stretching across our course is an island, almost a surprise after days of ocean. To the other, trying-hard-not-to-wake-up occupant of the cabin, one calls "It's Tahiti!". To which the response is the wholly unromantic "Good for it..." and a head disappearing under bed clothes. But Tahiti is too storied a place, too much romance, the centre of the wonderful Polynesian voyages of discovery and settlement, Cook, Bligh and the Bounty, Gauguin, the archetypal South Seas, Marlon Brando even; and she finally joins me to watch the sun rise over an almost still sea and the sharp volcanic outline of #tahiti.
(As with all these fast first passes, some editing will be a Good Thing. I was looking for a smooth, sensuous rich and fruity approach, but the fruitiness is a bit overdone. One must occasionally release the sustain pedal for good effect, it seems...)
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Piano samples courtesy Garritan Personal Orchestra
Comments
Truly moving piece of music really plays the emotions as much as the notes. In a very human way, the emotional content is so mixed as they are in the world. I wish I could phrase that better and more concisely. Had an emotional adventure to this.