Posted on 08/08/2014 8:59:25 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
This is the first post of the Modern Music Jarre weekend. This piece, Bells, is the opening number at The 12 Dreams of the Sun, a concert staged at Giza, Egypt, on the night of December 31, 1999. The show featured stunning visuals against a backdrop of desert and pyramids.
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I don’t care how great the musical sound, or how “stunning” the visuals are, it’s the worship of anubis in that concert that totally turned me off.
I love music and was drawn to watch this video because of that love of music. The drums, and bells have such a lovely effect, and the backdrop of the pyramids all add to the magnificent timeless grandeur, I remember how I felt when I stood in Cairo and first saw the pyramids standing right on the edge of the city, it was like passing through a “time rift” from modern to ancient. So, I was loving this video right up until the visual effect of anubis strutting in the background while the crowd swayed almost hypnotically to the music. That’s when I turned it off.
I will be expanding on this theme in a couple of days after viewing the entire 12 Days show to see whether my own theory applies in this case and ping you to it from this thread, so you are free to reconsider your position if you so desire. In the meantime, I will leave you with a link to his tribute to Pope John Paul II at his 2005 Gdansk show, which opens with him discussing his own meeting with His Holiness in Lyon.
Wow, what an experience that must have been. And to think of what Egypt has descended into since.
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