Dear Robert | Yanni | Jesse | Kitaro | Govi | Candy & David
I've said elsewhere — and I'm living proof — that you don't have to be a good singer to sing a good song. Of course it helps when the music you're singing to is brilliant. Lady and Gentlemen, your songs are not only brilliant, they have had a profound imact on my life.
Robert Haig Coxon — your Towards the Light triggered my Awakening, and started the entire 2.0 phase of my channeling experience.
Yanni — your Highland gave music to my It was a gift for the first time. Then your November Sky melded with my Away is no longer there into a powerful call to action, an anthem for change, an anthem for calling out the short sighted thinking that is speeding us towards the environmental abyss. And that was just the start, the first two (of now 16) 'asynchronous collaborations' with your music.
Jesse Cook — unlike the others here, I knew your music before I started channeling to it. But I was not prepared for the power of the songs we have created 'together', particularly my As darkness falls with your haunting Once. But that's just one of (now) 12 asynchronous collaborations with your work.
Kitaro — your Silk Road was a light to my moth. I couldn't get it, couldn't get it, couldn't get it. Then I did. Along the old Silk Road resulted, the strongest and most literary of my eco/poli-flavour songs. It was followed by another (so far) two songs.
Govi — your Jacaranda called at me for months until I finally 'got it' and the delicious I remember that smile bloomed into existence. It has already been followed by another two.
Candy Dulfur & David A. Stewart — your live version of Lily Was Here stumped me for months. I loved the call and response but could not work out how a vocal might fit into it. It seemed impossible. Until it wasn't, and not just a new song — You can say I said — but a new karosong genre was defined for the first time.
Why each of you? Why these particular songs? I don't know. Apart from Jesse, I did not know any of your music before this started. I have no 'consensus reality' explanation to offer for how your music and my karosongs intersect. I can only say that this is simply how they channel.
But the fact-on-the-ground is that our work did intersect, did create these beautiful powerful songs. I hope you like them. I do. But of course I am biased and I am an idiot musant who can do these songs the barest justice.
I would like to hear our asynchronous collaborations performed by real singers. I propose that my karosong lyrics be licensed and made available through your existing arrangements. Each of you has first dibs of course. Second dibs go to any single member or small group of the musicians you played with on your async track.
You can contact gordon @ this website.
Regards.
gordon | karo
The asynchronous collaborations
with Robert Haig Coxon
Transformation / Awakening | Towards the Light / The Silent Path
with Yanni
It was a gift | Highland
Away is no longer there | November Sky
Proposal | Nostalgia (live)
Bluebirds | With An Orchid
Just could never feel | In Your Eyes
Finding the voice | The Flame Within
The price | Midnight Hymn
For the record | One Man's Dream
Then i have to ask | If I Could Tell You
The rain must fall | The Rain Must Fall (live)
For my new lover | A Walk in the Rain
Got to get back | To the One Who Knows
In the morning light | In the Morning Light
Brick walls | Nine (live)
To take to hold | To take . . . to hold
Safe in the hands of bruce | Playing by Heart
with Jesse Cook
Nothing says | Ocean Blue
I remember it all | Fields of Blue
Damn straight I'm a liar | Hembra
As darkness falls | Once
Shake'n bake | Shake
Never-ending sunset | Into the Dark
Ah humanity | Azul
Since you went away | Cancion Triste
Turtle McTurdle | To the Horizon
We were brothers | Virtue
& the chase was on | Beneath Your Skin
Da loup de loup | Double Dutch
with Kitaro
Along the old Silk Road | Silk Road
The pheonix must burn | Oasis
If I could be | Auspicious Omen
with Govi
I remember that smile | Jacaranda
No plan Bs | Tears of Joy
Your lingering touch | Your Lingering Touch
with Candy Dulfur & David A. Stewart
You can say I said | Lily Was Here
