Friday, 28 June 2013

Music of Silence - a short list

"The Voice of Silence" by Peter Michael Hamel
"Silence is the Answer" by Deuter
"Silence" by Charlie Haden

While the first two take the idea of silence from religion & philosophy, Charlie Haden knows something about silence for a very different reason.
From the age of 2 till he was 15 he was part of his family's country music radio show, he then contracted a form of Polio & in effect lost his voice & stopped singing.
He didn't sing again in public or on record until 1999, when he recorded a version of "Wayfaring Stranger". He had kept rather busy in the meantime as perhaps the most sort after double bass player in jazz.

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