Music *day: Lisa Gerrard's "Now we are free" (Gladiator OST)
Surprisingly (or not), this post links 2 of my interests: (trail)running and music.
While running the Veni Vici trail race in South of France last month, whose main theme was obviously about Romans, we kept singing (or rather humming) the main track from Gladiator's OST: "Now we are free".
Gladiator is a movie I watched when it got released in 2000, and have since watched again a few times - I just forgot how good the OST was, especially with both Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer composing it.
The interesting thing about "Now we are free" is that Lisa Gerrard doesn't sing in English, but uses "the language of the Heart" - see that article.
“I sing in the language of the Heart,” begins Gerrard. “It’s an INVENTED
LANGUAGE that I’ve had for a very long time. I believe I started singing in it
when I was about 12. Roughly that time. And I believed that I was speaking to
God when I sang in that language."
This also reminded me of the early Dead Can Dance albums I listened to a while ago (Spleen and Ideal and The Serpent's Egg).
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