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A setting for voice and cello of text from The Song of Songs. The text is a dream sequence that is both sexy and anxious, and the setting takes its cues from the swinging mood and eerie imagery, while drawing on a wide variety of vocal techniques.

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I sleep, but my heart wakes:
it is the voice of my beloved that knocks saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love,my dove, my undefiled:
for my head is filled with dew,and my locks with the drops of the night.
I have put off my coat how shall I put it on?
I have washed my feet how shall I defile them?
My beloved put his hand in by the hole of the door,
and my bowels stirred for him.
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dripped with myrrh, sweet smelling myrrh,upon the handles of the lock.
I opened to my beloved;but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake:
I sought him, but I could not find him;
I called him, but he gave me no answer.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him,
that I am sick of love

credits

released September 13, 2015
Text: traditional, translated by Vilnai
Music: Vilnai
Voice: Gelsey Bell
Cello: Isabel Castellvi
Recorded by Don Godwin
Mixed and Mastered by Reuben Radding

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Jay Vilnai New York

"the missing link between Rasputina and Bernard Herrmann"

A composer and performer with versatile abilities, Vilnai’s music draws on everything from Balkan music, blues, a plethora of jazz styles and Western concert music. Whether writing for chamber ensembles, performing, or producing his own recordings, his music deals with ritual and social activity, folk music elements and a sense of song. ... more

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