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Ahh! Collaborations- something that always give us perfect time to reflect on the marvellous and wonderful sharing of one another’s gifts, communicating through music-the universal language shared, which now-even while there is the non-human dystopia that some certain technology has brought upon us-the ability to (as humans) communicate our human musical ideas, our real human emotions and share them across the globe with another musician and create a work of art such as this-this is a case where the technology we have now can really work well. Humans communicating and creating from one part of the world to another part of our earth-that is special. This track, featuring Nadine de Macedo and Crowsilver’s Sonia Hutchinson is a truly unique and inspiring combination of musical and vocal excellence that is genuinely a pleasure to hear. It’s quite a short piece but contains a lot of elements which makes it worthwhile. Piano introduction and throughout which weaves a brilliant tapestry for the vocals to elegantly glide.
I believe indeed the secret of the future spoken of in the title gives a certain amount of hope-not the dystopian future which is threatening and lurking (quite real and quite sad really-why deny that you as a human being with emotions you can express, but say you haven’t the creativity to express these feelings you have is to deny yourself the opportunity you already have…)
Unless you have a disability which makes using an instrument quite difficult (at the moment that’s a hurdle I’ve personally been striving to overcome, I still may have released tracks with voice and a light guitar (and a lot of previous releases re-released…however very determined through therapy to regain the strength to record fully (definitely a major goal)or manage this problem at the least-must reiterate that this is not a sob story nor blowing a trumpet either-why blow a trumpet about this?)) If you are human with feelings you most definitely have the capacity and capability to express your feelings and emotions without having to rely on something express what’s inside. Not sure if a machine (unless it’s the Paranoid Android of the novel (and movie) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) can convey emotions quite like a human can. That may be controversial for me and I may have unintentionally opened a whole can of worms here to say this, but I do believe in humanity and people having a voice from which they can express the full range of emotions they experience in their unique and quite miraculous lives with. That’s the beauty of being human.
The hope and the wonderful alternative secret to living in this future presented with this song, using technology yet still retaining the human emotions and spirit that only a human can convey through the medium of art and sound. Making use of this extraordinary technology we have to communicate these wonderfully human ideas and human emotions with one another across the world, and for artists to collaborate and convey these thoughts and life experiences through music and art created from the initial emotion through to this finished work of art, indeed-this is a future that is a lot brighter to look toward. Personally I’d like to thank Nadia and Sonia for creating this work of art-this wonderful collaboration. For it is worthy of being recognised as the brilliant piece of music it is. The lyric that you held your head up high is so very much apt-definitely this is a song for both artists involved to hold their head up high and be proud that this work of musical art is out there. A collaboration will always bring out the best in one another. This track does just that for Nadine and Sonia.
