Artist: Delerium (featuring the Mediaeval Baebes)
Title: Aria
Lyrics:
I have wist, sin i couthe meen,
That children hath by candle light
Her shadewe on the wal iseen,
And ronne therafter all the night.
Bisy aboute they han ben
To catchen it with all here might.
And whom they catchen it best wolde wene,
Sannest it shet out of her sight,
The shadewe catchen they ne might,
For no lines that they couthe lay.
This shadewe i may likne aright
To this world and yesterday
Why?: I’ve discovered over the years that there are songs, parts of songs, or even tones, that can instantly change my mood from utter despair all the way up to total euphoria. Some songs will even put me in a meditative state where I can instantly visualize things and relax. Some of the songs and tones are what you would expect. Choral songs, chants, wind chimes, percussion heavy music. The droning of a didgeridoo is soothing to me, as is the droning of bag pipes (I swear I must be a reincarnated Highlander!... I actually do like haggis... ). The 10 hours of Enterprise engine noise that you can find on YouTube? It is a white noise that keeps my geeky-self remarkably calm.
Delirium was introduced to me on the dance floor of Sanctuary where I learned it was a side project of one of the members of Skinny Puppy and Frontline Assembly. Fitting really as they performed the songs that would instantly unseat me from the booth or table and my friends and I would race to the dance floor to secure a roomy spot to flail about in the guise of dancing. Delirium was no different. It was a danceable sound and always made me happy to move along with it, but the dancing for a Delirium song was a little more joyful versus the angry pogoing I was used to doing.
The first time I heard this song, it was the musical equivalent of the sunlight streaming through the leaves in a forest.
