This challenge, started recently by @jokossita here, is a fun incentive to dig into those dusty old memories. Music can have powerful associations to a life long forgotten - hopefully more good than not.
Day 4
A song that calms you down
Perhaps not so easy to pick one for this as most music I like is uplifting, empowering, energising and has a great beat for dancing (aka sound that builds & gets the blood pumping!).
So what did I choose? Loch Lomond by Runrig
While it is, in places, a slower song than I normally might choose, there is still enough energy in the music to keep me interested. Plus .... Scotland!
The song, according to its Wikipedia page
"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland. The song prominently features Loch Lomond, the largest Scottish loch, located between the counties of Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire. In Scotland, the song is often the final piece of music played during an evening of revelry (a dance party or dinner, etc.).
... and perhaps, more poignantly ...
The original composer is unknown, as is definitive information on any traditional lyrics. The lyrics most commonly known are not the original, which was based on a Jacobite lament written after the Battle of Culloden. The second verse goes as: "As weel may I weep, O yet dreams in my sleep, / we stood bride and bridegroom together, / but his arms and his breath were as cold as the earth / and his heart's blood ran red in the heather."
If you don't know about the famous Battle of Culloden and associated Scottish history, then please do look it up. A very sad time for Scotland's people.
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As to the band, according to their Wikipedia page,
Runrig are a Scottish Celtic rock group formed in Skye, in 1973 under the name 'The Run Rig Dance Band'.
... and ...
Runrig's music is often described as a blend of folk and rock music, with the band's lyrics often focusing upon locations, history, politics and people that are unique to Scotland. Songs also make references to agriculture, land conservation and religion.
I love many of their songs, even the ones I cannot hope to understand the lyrics of when they are sung in the traditional native tongue. Runrig's music is just that lovely.
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This is the list from which the music challenge is based off of. I will be modifying some of the questions if more fitting.
Come along on this musical journey with me.
