Ugo
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Posted: Dec. 13 2001, 17:47 |
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It's funny, how a melody goes into your head without you having not the least idea about its title... it happened to me with the melody you mentioned. I've heard it for years & years & years & years as the music playing over the end credits of an Italian TV magazine called 'Nonsolomoda', about fashion and not-only-fashion, as the title says.  I'm glad to know that the tune is used as backing music also elsewhere.
Anyway... after saying all this, I must admit that I experienced the same sensation of deja vu (or deja connu = already known) when I first heard [and that was, shamefully, in October 2000...  ] the melody from 'Boat' in Amarok. It's only that I didn't link it to the piece from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, but with something I heard some years before (early '95?) in a theatre dance show, called 'Lord of the Dance'. All the music in this show was supposedly composed by a guy I'd never heard of before (Ronan Hardman or something)... but whose name was unmistakably Irish. And really, most of the music was based on Irish folk themes, rearranged on keyboards and synths (also the choreography was based on modern reworkings of traditional dances.) That repetitive piano-percussion theme is similar to a theme used in the show. Steve Farrell, in his Amarok Analysis (available on TW) says more or less the same, talking about a 'Riverdance style pattern' on percussion, 'Riverdance' being (as you probably know) a theatre dance show very like 'Lord of the Dance'. So the only link I can find between Amarok 'Boat' and Perpetuum Mobile is their common source, i.e. an Irish folk style of combining repetitive piano and percussion.
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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