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Re: The Biggest Chill?

From: Morten Franck Johnsen <morten@remove.sdata.no>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:48:46 +0200
Subject: Re: The Biggest Chill?
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Big chill?
I shiver when I hear parts of Hello Earth, just before the 
choir sets in - when she sings "I get into...".
The choir parts of that song are also chill material.
Maybe this chill is more the mood and the harmonies than vocally:). 

Morten

boots wrote:
> 
> Hiya folks,
>  I've got a question for you that maybe you've never asked yourselves about
> Kate's music... What single line of a Kate song (vocally) has caused the
> most intense reaction? The biggest chill to roll through you as if
> threatening never to let go...
> 
> I though of that just recently when I was watch the Line, the Cross, and
> the Curve...she hits a distinctively Kate note in And So Is Love that had
> me (grown man that I am) shivering... predictably it was the last very
> soulful iteration of the title line.
> 
> Other times it's happened to me?
> at the end of the Big Sky where she hits that unbelievable screech,
> sustains it and pulls it down into a deep rip that sounds way too rich to
> be some white woman.
> 
> in This Woman's Work (with the help of the exquisite string arrangement)
> Ohhh darlin, make them go away.
> 
> During her duet with Peter Gabriel, doing Another Day, pretty much the
> whole thing, really, but the very end... and I walk away
> 
> During Under the Ivy, perhaps the strongest response of them all, just
> because of the emotion range in the one segment
> and it's not easy for me
> to give away your secret
> It's not safe
> 
> Okay, so these are mostly the sad moments, but hearing Kate tug at my soul
> has always been more a pleasure than most other musicians could provoke
> from me in their most brilliant moments.
> 
> I'd really love to hear from you, hear what moments do it to you.
> 
> boots
> (who's really glad he found this group)