A more recent recording I did of a group of choirs singing the Jenkin’s song, “Adiemus”. The words actually have no meaning, but it’s the music that counts. The choirs originally sang along to a solo acoustic piano, and the orchestration and all percussion was scored and added afterward.
Kind of melancholy, but it builds, and it is ageless, because it could be from a few different eras in the last 20 years… In a very minor key.
This song was inspired by a few things. First, my first solo flight in an airplane while I was taking flying lessons, and second by the movie “The Aviator”. It’s tells a story; whimsy, tension, relief (landing).
[audio:http://www.glenrhodes.com/audio/firstflight.mp3|titles=First Flight|artists=Glen Rhodes]A song I wrote that reminds me, for some melancholy reason, of my earliest childhood home. I’m not exactly sure why, but it just feels that way. I always compose with an image or a theme in my head.
[audio:http://www.glenrhodes.com/audio/childhoodhouse.mp3|titles=The Childhood House|artists=Glen Rhodes]One of the earlier pieces I wrote, played, sang and recorded. It has heart. It’s not written about an individual, but about friends in general. And yes, again, that’s me singing.
[audio:http://www.glenrhodes.com/audio/withinthissong.mp3|titles=Within this Song]