Measuring Time: Music for 9/11/11

September 10, 2011 10:06:05 AM
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Danny Jones - Silence of the city

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I'm from Portugal and I think that song was made for 9/11 and it describes perfectly that tragic day and how people reacted to the 9/11. I remember that day, watching on TV and not believing in what I was seeing, just the terror splashed in people's faces, thinking about the people that were in the two towers, their pain and fear, that day changed not just America, but certainly the entire World.

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Carolina

September 10, 2011 10:05:13 AM
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"Overcome" by Live

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It takes me right back to the hectic and horrible chaos of that dreadful day. It's a stroke in your soul that makes us put life in perspective. May all the victims rest in peace and our hearts go to their families and friends. We were all American that day. The day in which the world changed.

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Margarida Silva

September 10, 2011 09:56:32 AM
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mariah carey

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im from portugal and love NYC and when i saw the two towers fall i cried so much. I had this dream that my twin sister and me would travel to NYC to see together the towers. now all i can do is wish that NYC GET HOPE, HAPPINESS AND LOVE.I choose this song because make me thing about life and those fireman and cops that lost there lifes and family of the victims.

now i send this poem to all NYC citizen from Marcelo de Oliveira Souza.

From above, the sky is one huge blaze
Accompanied by a loud thunder
Putting the population into despair,
The people running into disturbance
Cries of horror, save the people!
Everything's falling, destroying the world
Earthquake fading
The tower is diluted ...
That skyscraper beautiful!
Attacked by winged monsters.
The lead of the desperate
Poor wretches!
Within the two giants have become nothing sticks!
This is all nothing now
What remains of the end of the world ...
The Tower of Babel blessed
Fell into the trap damn,
Leaving an inheritance Setembrino
Another example that hallucinates ...
The carved chest pain
Not the right ceased
And every year has the same effect
Who dies, she and loads forever
The chest pain of grief ...

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nidia paiva

September 10, 2011 09:32:13 AM
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Madredeus - Haja o que houver.

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The lirics of this song tell about the pain of lost and the wish of a new gattering. I think that is the spirit of every survivor and relatives of the victims.

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Rui Bico

September 10, 2011 09:26:58 AM
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Gortoz a ran - J'attends

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This music expresses what I felt as a little kid watching horror on people´s faces for the first time of my life. I don´t live in the USA and neither am american but on that day I ceased to believe in that world of friendship and innocence of what all children dream about.

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Francisco

September 10, 2011 09:17:29 AM
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Cinematic Orchestra - Dawn

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Being on the other side of the Atlantic the attacks seemed kinf of eerie. The images and sounds were so unreal that it felt lime a closeby blast.

To me this music means exactly it, the awakening of eyesight and hearing after the blast. It's the inevitable continuum of time right after the tragedy.

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Vitor Luis

September 10, 2011 08:47:22 AM
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We Can Be Kind sung by Nancy LaMott

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I am always touched by the beautiful words and melody. They are words to live by.

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Janice Williams

September 10, 2011 08:25:22 AM
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Tom Waits from THE BLACK RIDER, "tHE bLACK rIDER"

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The World Trade Center Twin Towers, the only 2 buildings constructed of steel to ever "collapse" after a brief flash of fire, & 90 minutes of smoke...__>>| | _??
Imagine...these 2 massive buildings turned to DUST ! !...and fell straight to the ground at near free fall speed. How is this possible ? ?
Check out the documentary >>
9/11 MYSTERIES - The Demolitions.

Then...
"Come on a long with the Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time
Lay down in the web of the black spider
I'll drink your blood like wine
So come on in
It ain't no sin
Take off your skin
And dance around your bones

So come along with the Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time

Anchors away with the Black Rider
I'll drink your blood like wine
I'll drop you off in Harlem with the Black Rider
Out where the bullets shine

And when you're done
You cock your gun
The blood will run
Like ribbons in your hair

So come along wit hthe Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time

Come on along with the Black Rider
I've got just the thing for thee
Come on along with the Black Rider
I want your company

I'll have the veal
A lovely meal
That's how I feel
May I use your skull for a bowl

Come on along with the Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time"

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Vic

September 10, 2011 08:13:44 AM
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All These Angels

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This is a beautiful, powerful and healing tribute to 9/11 by a songwriter of good standing in New York and Philadelphia. Instead of the doom and gloom of popular media, this song is positive and uplifting as it urges us to believe in the angels created in the tragedy and how they move among us every day. It is her small effort to give back. Patti Shea believes she is the mere vehicle for this message. Please consider it for play. http://www.alltheseangels.com

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Robyn Green

September 10, 2011 04:04:10 AM
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now i am free - enya

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this verse of the lyrics of that emotionally moving song so aptly apply to the USA and sep 11

It's lovely
It's lovely, this land
No one can believe or understand
How far I came just for my lovely family
I should have been there
with them when the world crashed down
But now they rest with me.

I'll never forget
How I felt that moment
I became free.

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down but not out

September 10, 2011 01:10:34 AM
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The Silent City by Kayhan Kalhor. This is the link on you tube but it it also on the Silk Road Ensemble's album with the Chicago Symphony. Great Impossibilities

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This was written to depict the destruction of a Kurdish village by the Iraqis, but I invision the erie calm,shock, awe, destruction,resolve and healing of America surrounding 9-11. It brings tears to my eyes as I relive the recordings of the tragedy. One can hear sirens and voices. This piece is very long but is one of my favorites of classical music. About the players, all members of Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble but performing as Brooklyn Rider. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WzIxBeJ78U

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Valerie Armstead

September 09, 2011 10:15:52 PM
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New York Tendaberry by Laura Nyro

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I'll never forget the first time I drove back to New York after visiting my family in Philadelphia a week or so after 9/11 - the visceral pain I felt as I hit that spot on the New Jersey Turnpike where the skyline of lower Manhattan would reveal itself and I was punched in the stomach with the horror of those two gaping holes (smoke still rising from them) in the skyline of my city. I just broke down. But by the time I had actually entered Manhattan and was driving across 57th Street toward the Queensborough Bridge and home I felt this overwhelmingly deep, visceral love for this city, my home fill my entire being and the song that rose up in my mind was this one - and I began to sing...

New York Tendaberry
Blueberry
Rush on rum
of brush and drum
and the past is a blue note
inside me

I ran away in the morning

New York Tendaberry
blueberry
rugs and drapes and drugs
and capes
Sweet kids in hunger slums
firecrackers break
and they cross
and they dust
and they skate
and the night comes

I ran away in the morning
Now I'm back
Unpacked

Sidewalk and pigeon
you look like a city
but you feel like religion
to me

New York Tendaberry
True berry
I lost my eyes
in the east wind skies

Here where I've cried
where I've tried
where God and the tendaberry
rise
Where quakers and revolutionaries
join for life
the precious years

Join for life
through silver tears

New York Tendaberry

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Kathryn O'Connor

September 09, 2011 09:30:13 PM
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"I will be strong" by Rosalie Login

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I find Rosalie's heartfelt words and beautiful music to be inspiring and uplifting.
She has an inspirational video to go along with the music at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0munF4KDF0&sns=em
I would love for this to be shared with everyone.

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Lisa Jayne

September 09, 2011 07:42:03 PM
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He Aint Heavy... Donny Hathaway

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Anonymous

September 09, 2011 07:23:33 PM
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The Night is Young (Acoustic) Van Hunt

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Not much time left to do what we want. We should live our lives to the fullest

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J. Roper

September 09, 2011 04:40:36 PM
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Land of the Living- Lucy Kaplansky

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This is a highly personal account of the artist's response as she returned home to NYC in the aftermath of 9/11. Her lyrics paint a picture of the emotional landscape of the time.

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Claire Giangrasso

September 09, 2011 04:23:12 PM
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Jackson Brown

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When my brother was murdered in 1997 I found some understanding in the words of Jackson Brown both
Fountain of Sorrow and For a Dancer.

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Joan McMorrow

September 09, 2011 03:51:52 PM
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Joy Zipper - Go Tell The World

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Straight to the point.

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Mark

September 09, 2011 03:50:57 PM
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Sun Ra - That's How I Feel

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Upbeat with a tinge of sorrow.

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Mark

September 09, 2011 03:34:33 PM
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Katell Keineg - River Man

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Haunting lyrics that are amplified by Ms. Keineg's vocals. The first time I heard it was on WFUV as I was driving in the rain on the BQE.

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Mark