EPIPHANY

[Yoshi]

Could anyone teach me?
I love Sylvian's piece "EPIPHANY" which is in album "Approaching Silence".
I've listened more than one hundred times, but cannot catch the words of poems in English correctly.

As mentioned at some site,person who read the poems are,
1st line: Mr.Seamus Heaney, Celtic poet
2nd line: Mr.Anselm Kiefer, German Artist
3rd line: Guru Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher

I've already been taught the words & meaning of German in 2nd line. Now 1st & 3rd lines remain to be done.

Please advise me.

[camphorvan]

If you're talking about what is said it's (as far as I know):

All shifts dreamily as you keen far off

In other words; the world is dreamlike to you, as you daydream

or it could mean

the world is dreamlike to you, as you drift away from yourself

or it could mean....

[Yoshi]

Camphorvan, thanks very much.

I's now clear that 1st line is " All shifts dreamily as you keen far off ". i am pleased.

And then, could you or anyone teach me what words Jiddu Krishnamurti said in 3rd line ?

[camphorvan]

It sounds like 'observe what is going on and you won't forget'

If you like this type of music/experimentation, I've done a fair bit myself. I'm constructing a website in order that people may buy CD's online and I can post the address here if you like when it's complete.

C x

[Yoshi]

camphorvan, I greatly appreciate your kindness.

I'm very happy that now i may have key"words" to comprehend the significant poem.

I'm looking forward to your website.

[kitaj]

hello,
I'm hearing something like:
"I'm doe (?) what is going on - and awoke to get up".
I've listened to the first two syllables a hundred times now.. however much I love the beautiful Anglo-Indian accent, it certainly doesn't help decoding the phrase : )

[Adrian]

i thought: 'observe what is going on in the world today'

[kitaj]

having had a fresh relisten, I think maybe this is getting closer:

'Observe what is going on and our world(,) together'

[sonic_chronicler]

OK, here comes geek-boy to give you some of your answers....

The track epiphany originally comes from the Sylvian/Russell Mills project "Ember Glance : the Permanence of Memory which was created for an installation they did.


You are correct in the people reciting the dialogue
1st line: Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads "and all shifts dreamily as you keen far off" although I'm not sure if the emphasis is how it was actually written. It comes from the poem "A Northern Hoard"

A NORTHERN HOARD
And some in dreams assured were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so.
1. ROOTS
Leaf membranes lid the window.
In the streetlamp's glow
Your body's moonstruck
To drifted barrow, sunk glacial rock.
And all shifts dreamily as you keen
Far off, turning from the din
Of gunshot, siren and clucking gas
Out there beyond each curtained terrace
Where the fault is opening. The touch of love,
Your warmth heaving to the first move,
Grows helpless in our old Gomorrah.
We petrify or uproot now.
1'11 dream it for us before dawn
When the pale sniper steps down
And I approach the shrub.
I've soaked by moonlight in tidal blood
A mandrake, lodged human fork,
Earth sac, limb of the dark;
And I wound its damp smelly loam
And stop my ears against the scream.

3rd line: Guru Jiddu Krishnamurt "observe what is going on in the world together" most probably from one of a series of speeches he made over the years at Brockwood Park - my guess it was this one in 1985: http://tinyurl.com/23h6s2

I don't speak German, so someone else will have to help out with the middle line.[/quote]

Hope that helps.

Sonic

[Yoshi]

Everyone, thanks much for your spirit of inquiry and kindness, especially Mr.sonic_chronicler.

Regarding middle line, last time my German friend of MySpace advised that
"Geheimnisvoll aber nicht Geheimniskrämerei" .

He said that it's hard to translate whithout destroying the lyrical meaning, but he dared to teach me in English:
"mysteriously but not drenched in secrets" or "mysteriously but not hidden by secrets" .

Thanx

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