Ugo
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Posted: April 12 2008, 18:02 |
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This is purely IMHO, of course. 
I think that it's "from the balcony" because it's not 'ordinary' music. A balcony is normally located outside of a house, right? So here the house represents music, and its interior represents 'pop' music or 'ordinary' music... the kind of music you'd hear every day on the radio or from the TV. So, when you are inside the house, you're likely to hear songs like "Heaven's open" or "Make make". But the last piece has a completely different feel from the songs... it has an experimental feel, so it must come from some place that's external to the house, but is still strongly connected to the house itself, because, after all, it's still music. Hence "from the balcony". It's like Mike were saying: "OK, up to now I've played the kind of music that I'd play inside the house. Now I'll play a slightly more off-the-cuff piece: the kind of music that you'd hear coming from the balcony". 
When Mike recorded Amarok, he had moved (metaphorically, of course) into a much bigger house, and he went in and out of it all the time. And it had a HUGE balcony.
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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