Eternal Summer
© Copyright-John Gillespie
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Record Label: John Gillespie
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John Gillespie is best known as a member of the Chapel Hill acoustic trio, Nikki Meets the Hibachi. However, his musical endeavors have been numerous and diverse. Eternal Summer is a collection of songs inspired by classic literature. In his daytime hours, John has been teaching English for almost a dozen years. The 18-song CD also contains his 2005 release, The Siren Child. All these songs were recorded by Mike Garrigan, a well-known and talented singer/songwriter in his own right. Mike's work with Collapsis and Athenaeum may be familar to many of you from North Carolina. If you enjoy Eternal Summer, you should give a listen to the new Nikki Meets the Hibachi CD, "Back Around," which is available here at CD Baby.
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An incredible collection of evocative literature-based music
author: Walker Hicks
I love this album and have enjoyed exploring its multiple layers! Eternal Summer is a fascinating collection of literature-based music. The lyrics artfully evoke the themes and characters of some great lit, such as The Great Gatsby and Wuthering Heights, in subtle and intriguing ways that brought me to see the characters in a new light, and, more significantly, feel (through the music) some essential quality of the work that I hadn't noticed before. For example, "Not the Loneliest Place" (based on the Greek play "Antigone") breathes vitality and relevance into Antigone's sacrifice that we often miss in reading the character's lines. Through the song, she becomes real: a mournful, heartbroken, proud, determined, resolute teenage girl, like one you might meet any day. Gillespie has a real talent for getting to the heart of the emotion involved and tying a melody to it that captures that feeling. The songs, because of their subtlety, act as puzzles, and they draw you in to figure out what they're about, what they're referring, and what new angle they're going to offer on Shakespeare or Fitzgerald.
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