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Siegel Clyne
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Liner Notes for the 2006 Libera Album CD, "Angel Voices," Released Under the EMI CLASSICS Label (0946 3 70523 2 7) far away Music by Takatsugu Muramatsu (NHK), arranged by Robert Prizeman Words by Robert Prizeman (MCPS) Wherever I go Far away and anywhere Time after time you always shine Through dark of night calling after me And wherever I climb Far away and anywhere You raise me high beyond the sky Through stormy night lifting me above Venite Spiritu et emitte caelitus Venite Spiritu et emitte caelitus Venite Spiritu Venite Spiritus Far away beyond the sky Whenever I cry Far away and anywhere You hear me call when shadows fall Your light of hope showing me the way (With thanks to Toshiba/EMI & NHK TV) Performed by Libera, "Far Away" served as a theme song for the 2006 Japanese television drama series aired on NHK TV, "The Ice Wall." It is one of Libera's most popular songs. The British "boy band" Libera, whose members hail from South London, England, enjoy international popularity and have attracted fans from all over the world, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and South Korea. Although their unique, ethereal sound stems from the English cathedral choir tradition and their band's origin lies with the choir of boys and men at an Anglican parish church (St Philip's, Norbury) in South London where their music director Robert Prizeman served as the organist, don't call Libera choirboys... Spearheaded by Libera's phenomenal success, the pure, heavenly singing voices of boy choristers / boy trebles / choirboys in the rich, hallowed tradition of the collegiate and cathedral choirs in England - Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Choir of St John's College, Cambridge; Choir of Eton College Chapel, Eton; Choir of New College, Oxford; Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford; Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London; Choir of Westminster Cathedral, London; Choir of Winchester Cathedral; Choir of Gloucester Cathedral; Choir of Ely Cathedral; Choir of Westminster Abbey; etc. - have apparently left their mark on Japan. So much so that they seemingly even have had an impact on anime - at least in the case of the 2007 Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica late, late night Japanese television animation series, based on a 2006 Japanese visual novel from Ocelot. As a young boy Tatara Phoron, the main character in the Polyphonica anime, has a beautiful singing voice, much in the manner of a English choirboy. The funny thing is, a grown up Phoron (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) - who otherwise sounds like a man when speaking - has the exact same singing voice that he had as a young boy. |
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