Revolution Performance 1

1. Faith - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
2. Saltimbanco - Cirque du Soleil
3. Light and Shadow - Vangelis
4. RV63 La Follia - Vivaldi
5. Aquaphobia - Burkhard Dallwitz
6. Rites - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
7. Taiko (edit) - Cirque du Soleil
8. Requiem for a Dream (Two Towers Mix) - Clint Mansell
9. V Theme Music - ?
10. Kissing You - Sade
11. Double Lira and Finale - Kitaro

The first Revolution performance was grand and somewhat dark. It is a continuous crescendo, but among my favourite aspects of it there is the detourning presence of a vocal and very romantic song in the finale.

For the second edition of the party we created a somewhat theatrical performance, whose story required an actual soundtrack.

Many of its tracks are cut, pasted and edited to get specific effects, and simply putting them in sequence wouldn't probably give the same ensemble result.

Revolution Performance 2

1. 1492 Opening - Vangelis
2. The Pink Room - Angelo Badalamenti
3. The Pine Float - Angelo Badalamenti
4. I + Z Twig (edit) - Aphex Twin
5. Dead Already (edit) - Thomas Newman
6. Lakmé - Delibés
7. Rondo - Cirque du Soleil
8. Dead Already (reprise) - Thomas Newman
9. Prot Missing + 27 July (edit) - Edward Shearmur
10. Troubled + Underground (edit) - Burkhard Dallwitz
11. Icare - Cirque du Soleil
12. Flying - Cirque du Soleil

O - Water essence

1. Piano solo - Parasite Eve OST
2. Irvin's Birthday - Angelo Badalamenti
3. Cantus Insolitus - Adiemus
4. Steel Dream - Cirque du Soleil
5. Iguazu - Gustavo Santaolalla
6. ? - Angelo Badalamenti
7. Dolores Claiborne 4 - Danny Elfman
8. I Want You - ?
9. Space Expanse - Steve Roach
10. Dolores Claiborne 3 - Danny Elfman
11. Solar System Trapeze - Kitaro
12. Light & Shadow - Vangelis
13. Rites - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
14. Dead Man (edit) - Neil Young
15. Arpeggio - ?

My absolutely favourite playlist. The music follows the wanderings of a water droplet: from the first trickling to streams, rivers, whitewaters, falls, tempests, oceans.

The emotions follow it, so the souls ride on a rollercoaster of rithmyc and tumultuous experiences - until they find solace in a quietude impossible before.

This is an exercise in contradiction. Vocal tracks are usually an intolerable distraction during a play session - but here voice takes the spotlight.

Selecting somewhat peculiar tracks helps creating a quite interesting overall effect.

Vox

1. Atamadja - Cirque du Soleil
2. A Total Eclipse of the Sun - Einsturzende Neubauten
3. Bonnie & Clyde - Tori Amos
4. Der Schacht von Babel - Einsturzende Neubauten
5. Beach House - Rubini & Jaeger
6. Largo - ?
7. Na Laethe Bhi - Clannad
8. Space Expanse - Steve Roach
9. Glorafín - Lisa Gerrard
10. Radiator Warm - Angelo Badalamenti
11. Stella Maris - Einsturzende Neubauten

East

1.Making of Cyborg - Kenji Kawai
2. Wall of Masks - Kitaro
3. Melody for Mahakola (edit) - Tibetan Monks
4. Ozatsuma - Traditional Japanese
5. Sacrifice - Lisa Gerrard
6. Esashi Oiwake - Traditional Japanese
7. Percussions - ?
8. Godanginuta - Traditional Japanese
9. Honor Him - Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
10. Immature - Kenji Kawai
11. Mission Remix - Ennio Morricone
12. Edo Lullaby - Traditional Japanese

Of course not all experiments work out right. Here I wanted to create an Eastern ambience (for shibari play, in example), but I ended up using tracks too stereotypical, and the result borders on kitsch.

But then, it's all a matter of tastes in the end.

When playlists become too topical things like this happen. Here we have the perfect soundtrack to go with the experience of an extreme suspension.
Everything happens like in an initiation ritual, and helps discovering the paradoxical feeling of freedom of this kind of bondage.

Wonderful, really. But I can't imagine using it in different settings. What about you?

Tlaloc - Initiation to flight

1. ? - Adiemus
2. Libera Me - Eliott Goldenthal
3. The Rite - Lisa Gerrard
4. Fleawalker's Nightmare - Angelo Badalamenti
5. Reveil - Cirque du Soleil
6. Sore Spots - Danny Elfman
7. Galina - Kitaro
8. I'm Alone on This - Lisa Gerrard
9. Gloradin - Lisa Gerrard
10. Birth of a Penguin 1 - Danny Elfman
11. Circulation of Shadows - Lisa Gerrard
12. ? - Michal Urbaniak
13. Selina Transforms 2 - Danny Elfman
14. Access - Kenji Kawai
15. Moments in Love - Art of Noise
16. ? - Lisa Gerrard
17. Mer Noire - Cirque du Soleil
18. Elysium - Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
19. The Finale 2 - Danny Elfman

Fê - Female rituality

1. Incidental - ?
2. Faith - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
3. In Nativitate Domini 2 - Canto Gregoriano
4. Comforter - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
5. Incidental - Kenji Kawai
6. La Bas - Lisa Gerrard
7. Reunion - Lisa Gerrard & Hans Zimmer
8. The Unfolding - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
9 - Antiphona Beatae Mariae Virginis - Canto Gregoriano
10. Tempest (2.38) - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
11. Broken - Lisa Gerrard
12. Liquid Moon - Lisa Gerrard
13. Nileshna - Lisa Gerrard
14. Tempest (5.48) - Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
15. ? - Lisa Gerrard
16. Violina - Lisa Gerrard
17. Gladiator Theme - Lisa Gerrard

Almost a dedicated Lisa Gerrard compilation, but so it goes. Her voice has a duende like no others, so I enjoyed putting together a track list to drive a slightly disquieting emotional trip, very mystical and centered on the female figure.

She gets all the credits, but the end result gives the shivers.