Within every traditional Japanese haiku is a 'kigo'--a word associating the poem with a particular season. Madokara Mieru is an adaptation of five such haiku in rondo form; corresponding to spring, summer, autumn, winter and the return of spring. Each refrain is sung by a vocalist in a different stage of life--a child for spring, a young woman for summer, a middle-aged man for autumn, and an elderly man for winter. Following an extended instrumental 'transfiguration,' the return of the child's voice at the end signifies the return of spring, thus completing the cycle of life, death and rebirth as reflected through the changing of the seasons.
Christopher Tin - Madokara Mieru (Through the Window I See) (2009)
This song is so epic and the ideas for all the different edits you could do to make a program are endless! Just a beautiful piece. The hardest part would be how to not include the entire song.
“We are going to live forever“ for the playlist thing
Eyyy, thanks for asking! :D
Life Must Have Its Mysteries by Hans Zimmer
The Musketeers Series 3 Finale by Paul Englishby
Madokara Mieru by Christopher Tin
Into the West by Annie Lennox
The Scarlet Demon on the Cobblestone Road by Sound Horizon
The Cloud Atlas Sextet by Tom Tykwer
Return from Helsinki by Frigg
Place de la République by Coeur de Pirate
BBC’s The Musketeers Theme by Murray Gold
And I think that’s pretty much it :”D The songs 2 & 7 have both made me a sobbing mess and I rly love all the songs in the list :D I hope you like them! (Also I added The Musketeers theme for reasons we all probably know)
Meaning: The song is based around a series of five Haiku, each corresponding to the changing seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter and ending on spring. Each verse is sung by a singer in a different stage of their life; so a young girl sings the first spring verse, an adolescent girl sings about summer, an older woman sings about autumn, etc. The song ends with a return of the young girl singing about spring, therefore completing the cycle of the seasons. So in essence, it's a song about the cycle of life.