If You Knew by Ellen Bass
Jami Sieber & Kim Rosen
A symphonic interplay between lush layers of cello and words of startling tenderness and confrontation.
If You Knew (single)
"What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone?….”
Jami and Kim's most recent co-creation, emerging from the poem “If You Knew” by Ellen Bass, is a symphonic interplay between lush layers of cello and words of startling tenderness and confrontation. Jami’s composition is a musical journey, submerging the listener in ever deepening currents of soul. Kim’s delivery of Ellen Bass' poem is a summons into intimacy with the day-to-day details that make up our living and dying, even as we find ourselves, unsuspecting, in the stark heart of the question at the center of our days.
As we offer this creation to you, we give great thanks to Ellen Bass for the poem that inspired it, to Galen Garwood for donating his visionary art as a raiment for our work, and to Agu for always being our first listener, and receiving these creations with wisdom and care.
“If You Knew” is the second in the series of single releases that will eventually make up the album, This Mortal Time, the second in the Feast of Losses series.
Poem by Ellen Bass
Music by Jami Sieber
Spoken Word by Kim Rosen
“If You Knew” from The Human Line. Copyright © 2007.
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Cover Art Image by Galen Garwood
"If You Knew" is available by digital download only