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june 22
Ennio Morricone - Belinda May
Today’s track is curated by Mel Exon / @melex
As the summer solstice comes to an end today, June 22nd, so does the 2nd outing of Taped Together.
The final track this time round also completes a circle. The very first track we uploaded for this project was Ennio Morricone’s Here’s To You. Today’s track, Belinda May, is also by the maestro, but is a very different creature altogether. Whilst no words are sung beyond the name “Belinda May”, an entire story is nonetheless told through the music. If you listen to this once and mistakenly hear a summery, kitsch lullaby of a love song, then listen to it again. Preferably find somewhere you can stop and watch the world go by for 2.54 minutes. A view from a window, a promenade, a seat in a favourite coffee shop. If that’s just not possible, then stick on headphones and close your eyes.
There is none of the powerful build up, no epic crescendo, nor rousing chorus of Here’s To You. Instead the song dives straight in and gets busy, skipping along at a pace that belies the slower, bitter-sweet vocal. Morricone famously uses the human voice as an instrument and this may be his lightest and loveliest example.
