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To someone on the other side of the world
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I used to be in love with a woman who lived in Helsinki. Unfortunately at the time, I lived in Detroit. At that time, she didn't know. Years later, she would.
world music power pop percussive solo acoustic guitar overtone
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World music songwriting that transcends the single band.
World music songwriting that transcends the single band. Music made round the world from 1990-2002. These songs are my legacy material. My life is an experiential journey of my own design and some of the end result has been recorded and/or live music and spoken word. I play a variety of instruments and sing/talk. Most of the songs on this page date from my recordings between 1995's "4" (under the Moniker Mr. Chaos, in Detroit Michigan U.S.A.) through to 2002's "In Stereo" (with Add Lib Lounge, in Helsinki, Finland). There are also some glimpses here of 1997-9s "Mr. Chaos Trio" from Mid-Finland; 2000's Bahasa Mix, from Malaysia; and 2001's Jazz sessions from Helsinki (with the Black Tuesday Quartet); and 2004 activist bluegrass recordings against GW Bush's "No Child Left Behind" schooling initiative. I hope you enjoy it.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
Charts
Peak #54
Peak in subgenre #10
Author
John Hammink
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John Hammink
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June 08, 2006
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MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 2:43
Story behind the song
Song has elements of Iron John and Robert Bly. Men being men for their own sake, without children, wife or employers and their expectations. Beating our drum and expressing our feelings. Where we can be iron strong and cry at the same time. Thus to references to our cellar (as a place of escape) where we meet the "hairy man" with the "golden ball". Sorry if this seems a little obscure to you feminists out there. This song and arrangement owes an immense stylistic debt to Brazilian songwriters Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
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To someone on the other side of the world I'm caught between yesterday and tomorrow I'd rather be a bum in your life - than be someone in my own. I wanna go to a place where receptivity seesaws with resolve I just got back from the cellar, Where I asked the hairy man for the golden ball. But I couldn't find it so here I am, Maybe i'll find it talking to you. I hope it's near to where your expectations for me are. If dreams and consequences were one in the same (I'd still be) caught between yesterday and tomorrow - but did someone somewhere say.... oh - and I'll have all the treasures you'll ever need. Detroit/Sau Paulo, June 1993
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