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Songs from Liquid Days

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The title comes from a lyric written by Byrne. Glass said, "It had a feeling of how the songs flowed into each other, as if each song were a day and the liquidity was the flow of the songs from one to the other. There’s no break between the songs. The end of one becomes the introduction to the next."
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The words come first. From these I fashioned a set of six songs which, together, form a cycle of themes ranging from reflections on nature to classic romantic settings. After the music was written, I — along with producer Kurt Munkacsi and conductor Michael Riesman — began the long and difficult
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process of 'casting' singers for the individual songs. We felt that the interpretation a singer brings to a song is an immense contribution to its character — contributing their own personality to the work perhaps more than any other performer.
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The album was conceived in 1983, but mostly written and recorded in 1985. Glass said, "I was curious. The question I asked myself was: 'If I, a person from the world of concert music and opera, wrote a song, what would it sound like?'"
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resolves the distance between the commonplace and the mystical in a Zen-like lyric whose abbreviated phrases imagine death as a rush into eternity in which sounds become words – a
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The album's six songs are short, oracular reflections on time and love, with imagery that explicitly evokes mystical connections between people and objects ...
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became Philip Glass' most popular and successful recording," and concluded that "Songs From Liquid Days may be their single greatest achievement."
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a mock-solemn meditation on the possible sources of an electrical hum in a room ...
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Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers
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All songs feature the Philip Glass Ensemble under direction of
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Studio album
Philip Glass
Label
CBS
Producer
Philip Glass
Satyagraha
AllMusic
Pitchfork
Philip Glass
Paul Simon
Suzanne Vega
David Byrne
Laurie Anderson
Bernard Fowler
Kronos Quartet
Janice Pendarvis
The Roches
Linda Ronstadt
Philip Glass Ensemble
CBS Records
Saturday Night Live
Stephen Holden
AllMusic
Paul Simon
Bernard Fowler
Suzanne Vega
Janice Pendarvis
The Kronos Quartet

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