Górecki, Lamb

While watching the Doctor Who Confidential episode for Sins of the Fathers, I heard snippets of a song that immediately grabbed my attention. I managed to memorise two fragments of the lyrics — ‘if I should die’ and ‘loving every breath of you’.

I put these phrases into Google and soon discovered the name of the song. It is called ‘Górecki’ by Manchester band Lamb. You can hear it here. Supposedly, Lamb based the song on Polish composer Henryk Górecki‘s Third Symphony Opus 36.

I read up on the song. The song has a large following — there are many, many fan videos that use this track. Perhaps one of the song’s most famous appearances was as Satine died in Moulin Rouge.

I mentioned my discovery to Jessen, one of my team mates, who said, ‘I have that song!’ I promptly procured it from his MP3 player and have been listening to it non-stop.

One of the reasons I love this song is that it makes me want to dance contemporary to it. I can feel how my body should move to it. Unfortunately, I don’t have the training, flexibility, balance, repertoire, or strength for it. I don’t know if non-dancers know what it’s like. Maybe it’s like wanting to sing a particular song and not hitting the right notes. Or knowing what you want to paint but what you put on paper doesn’t match your mental image. Hmm. It’s probably the same frustration people feel when they can’t articulate their thoughts clearly to other people.

Listening to this song and not being able to dance to it is like that, only the tension is physical.

So I looked up ‘Gorecki dance’ on YouTube and found something like I had imagined could be danced to this song.

One comment

  1. taiirei says:

    Thanks Joan 😎
    Hope you didn’t get caught in the flood at Oval!
    I had a lot of fun, thanks for a great evening out.

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