EXITMUSIC 1011
Written, arranged and produced by
Mikel Rouse
EXITMUSIC RECORDINGS
Dubbed by one critic as “Cage and Cunningham on steroids”, International Cloud Atlas is the latest release from the mind of Mikel Rouse. Rouse conceived this idea to accompany the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s eyeSpace and thought it would be a perfect homage to Cage and Cunningham to have everyone listening on iPods (set to shuffle, of course) as they watched the performance unfold. Says Rouse, “The sequence of tracks on this recording represents but one version of this composition. As with the dance performance, the sequence may be set to “shuffle” to yield a possible 3,628,800 permutations”.
John Rockwell of the New York Times said of International Cloud Atlas: “What was thrilling about hearing the music this way was how personal it was. We were all cocooned in our own worlds, hearing something different, just for us. “All the audience members have their own secret, their own special version,” Mr. Rouse was quoted as saying in Time Out New York. It was the purest realization of Mr. Cunningham’s chance aesthetic, the ultimate in intimacy”.
Music composed and arranged for iPods
For The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
01. America’s Secrets
02. How I Stayed Blind
03. Quando Este Lado Estã Vazio
04. Gaza Strip Mall (Get Happy)
05. Govern My Love (Quase Perdi Meu Garfo)
06. Twin Minutes
07. My Love’s Gone Remix
08. Como Eu Estive Cego
09. When This Side Is Empty
10. Clarion Hotel
Lyrics
AMERICA’S SECRETS
We must protect America’s secrets
We must protect America’s secrets
Give me my property back
Give me my property back
HOW I STAYED BLIND
You’re not taking me where I know it’s free
You’re not taking me where I know it’s free
How I stayed blind in one lifetime
How I stayed blind in one lifetime
And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now and then
And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now
QUANDO ESTE LADO ESTÁ VAZIO
Quando este lado está vazio
Quando este lado está vazio agora
When this side is empty, when this side is empty now
When this side is empty, when this side is empty now
Todo o meu pesar
A minita vida toda
GAZA STRIP MALL (GET HAPPY)
Look who’s shopping in the Gaza Strip Mall
Look who’s shopping in the Gaza Strip Mall
That’s what happens when you get happy, get happy
That’s what happens when you get happy, happy again
When it’s not about you
Is that the woman from the place I’m going to?
Please tell me true, when it’s not about you.
GOVERN MY LOVE (QUASE PERDI MEU GARFO)
Almost lost my fork
But I didn’t lose my fork
Quase perdi meu garfo
Mas eu não perdi meu garfo
Will you govern my love today?
TWIN MINUTES
Twin minutes, twin minutes with you
Twin minutes, twin minutes with you
MY LOVE’S GONE REMIX
My love’s gone. It got all used up.
Now my love’s gone
COMO EU ESTIVE CEGO
Como eu estive cego
a vida inteira
How I stayed blind in one lifetime
How I stayed blind in one lifetime
E ev sei
E vc sabe
Mas a gente não está la agora
Mas a gente não está la
And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now and then
And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now
WHEN THIS SIDE IS EMPTY
All my sorrow all my life
All my sorrow all my life
When this side is empty, when this side is empty now
When this side is empty, when this side is empty now
CLARION HOTEL
I’m dyin’ in the water
I don’t know where the water’s gonna go
The keys on the table
The train’s out the door
The bottle of whiskey
We’ve been here before
The laughter and secrets
With time on our side
Has slipped away slowly
And shortened this ride
If living is dying
I’m dying with you
A notch on the bottle:
Forty one’s forty two
A kiss for a handshake
A clarion call:
That love is the winner
And winner takes all
I’m dyin’ in the water
I don’t know where the water’s gonna go
They’re leavin’ the morning
Clarion hotel
Mark and Liz are drivin’
I’m wishing in their well
The give without taking
The train asking why
The bottle of whiskey
They’re saying goodbye
Lyrics © 2006 Mikel Rouse
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Published by Club Soda Music (ASCAP)
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