More from the Russian choir I saw years back in the wilds of Kerry. I’m including the below clip in spite of the audio quality not being wonderful at times especially for the segment at around the one minute mark that which for about 45 seconds with the lone singer. Almost everything we encounter can be placed within the unfolding of time, so we’ll say within the fields of art even quite startling shifts in style are still within an overall natural flow of events. This piece of singing though feels to me, especially when hearing it the first time in its newness, as wholly outside of a natural developmental unfolding, that we have stepped outside of the natural Western order into something very naked in the spirit, something spiritually naked, and not bound to development of various styles and techniques.
Also music exists in time, as in it has a certain duration, it starts and moves through time. This little segment somehow to me steps outside of that, and brings to mind a line in I think The Book of Revelations, “Time shall be no more.”
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