Name: Shiva Sleeps by Naoise David Sheridan
Duration: 4 min 44 s
Description: Destroying the world so it can be rebuilt anew is a lot of work. Even for the omnipotent. Lord Shiva gets some much-needed shut-eye. The cobra reminds us that we must be humble in our nature. And not to get too close. This piece is scored for orchestra.

The In Between
Lyrics by Ali Young

Howling in the spaces in between
Slow hands measuring the halocene
Could you collect all the promises you dreamed?
Counted on your fingers with your heart whispering...

Cold in the coat your mother made you
You move like a ghost toward some saviour
Is it for nothing? Or is it for good?
Take what you want and not what you should...

Breathe - before you take, you leave
(...there's an echo of a memory...)
Go - before you fall
Before you saw the end, but now you see it all

Holding onto something you can't mean
You could find the middle of the darkest deep
Lost in the clearing - voices you're hearing
Howling in the spaces in between

Breathe - before you take, you leave
(...there's an echo of a memory...)
Go - before you fall
Before you saw the end, but now you see it all

Now... you see it all... (x infinity)



In Between

01 Out of The Tunnel - I Fast

A Waterfall Is a Poem Pouring through a Rock - Lyrics

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
A mild case of death in the park
Meant I was looking for someone

And the old guys keeping us straight with their stories
The death of a bricklayer in Dublin
And claims that there once were leprechauns 

And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing

After two years of digging up my roots in back rooms
I found out there was only one truth 
That roots were meant to be buried

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back 
So I stopped looking for anyone

And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back 
So I stopped looking for anyone

Strange Part of the Country

A Waterfall Is a Poem Pouring through a Rock

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You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: 50ftf.kronosquartet.org

Composed by Aruna Narayan, arranged by Reena Esmail
© 2019 Inner Sunset Publishing
℗ 2022 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded September 2021 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington, January 2022

Aruna Narayan - Mishra Pilu

Destroying the world so it can be rebuilt anew is a lot of work. Even for the omnipotent. Lord Shiva gets some much-needed shut-eye. The cobra reminds us that we must be humble in our nature. And not to get too close. This piece is scored for orchestra.

Shiva Sleeps

Produced by Mark Ephraim and Chris Moore. Written by Melanie Shelley, BMI and Marie McGilvray, ASCAP.

From Melanie Shelley's self-titled debut album on Happy Marriage Records. Available digitally on Itunes and Amazon. CD & Vinyl release, November 2011.

All rights reserved. Available for licensing.

10 Chosen Daughter

Originally from Galway, Ireland, Naoise David Sheridan is a Musician/Composer based in Nashville. You will usually find him locked in the dark with only the glow of synths and the hum of amplifiers for company. He has composed music for Indie films, commercials, video games and the occasional PSA.
 
Currently he's obsessed with writing for quartets and small ensembles. To that end he has found himself a first rate composition teacher and knuckled down. 

'Celli', written for Cello Ensemble, premiered at The Music Tomorrow Festival in July 2022.

Shiva Sleeps

Naoise David Sheridan

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