The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

softly

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http://www.alansondheim.org/softly1.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/softly2.mp3

soft and gently falls the rain
where there's no violence there's no gain
where there's no heaven there's no pain
soft and gently falls the rain

soft and gently falls the snow
what lives in heaven lives below
what thrives in dying thrives below
soft and gently falls the snow

soft and gently falls the rain
soft and gently falls the snow

New Year's Naked Zither

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http://www.alansondheim.org/nakedzither.mp3

just the sound, no images, no reverberation, no echo,
no reverse echo, no amplitude normalization, no filter,
no words, no reversals, no accompaniment, just playing
across fingerboard and open strings simultaneously,
just the heights and depths of the 19th-century
instrument welcoming in the New Year, getting rid of
the Old before it slaughters all of us!