Name: 明かりの灯るところへ by Michael J. Viola
Duration: 4 min 15 s
Description: 先月（３月）は踏ん張って、２曲カバーしました😁いつものように、マイケル節をたっぷり詰め込んで編曲して❤を込めました。是非聴いてやって下さい！ヨロック😊

先月（３月）は踏ん張って、２曲カバーしました😁いつものように、マイケル節をたっぷり詰め込んで編曲して❤を込めました。是非聴いてやって下さい！ヨロック😊

明かりの灯るところへ

"Say Something" is the opening track of the brand new album by Wilfred N & the Grown Men – "Passing Through Time". This song makes me feel good. When I started recording it, the song definitely reminded me of the Ian Dury and the Blockheads album "Do It Yourself" that I listened to a lot. I was also thinking of Lou Reed. I miss them both! Please check my website www.wilfredkozub.com for lyrics, full credits, and backstories on this song and all 8 songs on the album.

Passing Through Time

Say Something

「達明一派」　８０年代中期、香港バンドブームに台頭したバンド。私の中では「安全地帯」と同じレベルに位置づける程、自分の青春を深く刻んでくれたバンド。

メンバーはギターの劉以達とボーカルの黄耀明。

達明一派の曲の中には、「馬路天使」、「禁色」、「天問」、「崩裂」など、主流社会から省かれる人々、支配される若者、社会の不平などを描いたりする曲が多かった。

今回カバーさせて頂いた「圍牆」という曲も、若い男女が支配されている社会から逃げ出そうとしていたが、最終的にやられてしまうという…。何て悲壮とロマンのストーリー。

しかし、今この曲を改めて聴いた私にとっては、より一層深い意味があります。

まるで達明一派の曲を再現するかのように、現在、香港の大勢の方々は自由や平等を求めて戦っています。命を落とした方もいます。しかも、黄耀明自分自身もデモに参加しています。

３０年前に聴いたそれぞれの曲は恰も３０年後の今を予言するかのよう。

私自身、政治については公言したりすることはしませんが、この曲を通して少しでもエールを。

圍牆 - A New Interpretation

“Four More Days” is a quarantine love song, a fond reflection on far-away lovers. Every touring artist knows the trails of love at a distance, and this song considers the lost opportunities for connection while moving at the swift pace of being on the road and the longing that comes with being separated from new loves and the glitz of nightlife in the midst of a global pandemic. The fervent pace of Hua Li’s lyrics combine with breezy, soaring production from Alexander Thibault for this raving ode to love affairs that lie beyond reach.

Yellow Crane EP

Four More Days

Hua Li - Four More Days (prod. Gloze)

This is a tender song of disappointment in a relationship. The song is from the album "Thunder on the Tundra" recorded in 1987 . . . "the year everything happened," according to Wilfred N. This was one of the more successful songs for Wilfred N & the Grown Men in terms of radio airplay, with plays across Canada and several stations in Europe. A version of "Sailing on a Cruiser" was recorded in live performance with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as part of "The Alberta Suite" performed at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Canada.

Thunder on the Tunddra

Sailing on a Cruiser

Dreamsick

In A Minute x3 is track 3 on the new album, “I’m In Love With The City,” by us guys, Wilfred N & the Grown Men. Nik Kozub also did a remix of this for our album … “In A Minute x 3 (the Paronomasiac remix)” – Nik Kozub being said Paronomasiac. Do we love it?  Yes! We love it!

Here’s a little true story for ya … One day I was on an undergound train with my headphones on, loudly playing an early mix of this song. It was the end of a work day and, at the next stop, eight or ten tired-looking, regular pudgy people got on the train car, and all of them – pretty much simultaneously – fell asleep in their seats. It was a beautiful and unusual ‘video’ that unfolded in my brain as my song played ‘doo doo doo’. I imagined a little animated space guy, with a glass bubble around his head, flying to each person asleep, eyes closed, in the train … having a close up little look. The scene, part real and part in-my-head, was wonderful. The little space guy came from my memory of Sammi the Spaceman in the Little Lulu and Tubby comics from when I was a kid. The scene was a full-on movie … fantastic! My imagination struck out other scenarios as the song progressed. I imagined a possibly friendly, (at least we were all naïve enough … or desperate for something to make our world better – to want to think they were friendly) soft invasion of a cheery, animated alien race, arriving to exchange their (supposed) lovely lives with our less lovely lives. (“I love my life, I love your life … I love our life.  I LOVE LIFE!”)

 

In the final scene, where the crowd stadium cheering comes in, there is a band singing those words with a joyous (but with suggestions of something ominous) union of our people with their people. Wonderful. And scary. Meanwhile, the guy in the video is texting or fiddling with his personal phone device

 

… “in a minute I’ll be thinking of something else – nothing can get in the way of love.”   Yeah, this is the video-of-my mind for this tune. I guess the song might have been called In A Minute text text text. Who’s playing? The robust drums on this track are by Clint Frazier, and that’s Jamie Philp playing the rippin’ electric guitar lines. Thanks, guys! I did the vocals, keyboards, sleighbells/shaker and acoustic guitars. Nik captured Jamie and Clint with brilliance in the studio.


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In A Minute x 3

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love-me-nots

一番“悲しい歌”は自分しか聴こえない歌だと。
少しずつ自分が作った曲やカバーソングを紹介させて頂きます。是非楽しくお聴き頂ければ幸いです。

明かりの灯るところへ

Michael J. Viola

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