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International Cloud Atlas

by Mikel Rouse

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1.
AMERICA’S SECRETS We must protect America’s secrets We must protect America’s secrets Give me my property back Give me my property back
2.
HOW I STAYED BLIND You’re not taking me where I know it’s free You’re not taking me where I know it’s free How I stayed blind in one lifetime How I stayed blind in one lifetime And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now and then And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now
3.
QUANDO ESTE LADO ESTÁ VAZIO Quando este lado está vazio Quando este lado está vazio agora When this side is empty, when this side is empty now When this side is empty, when this side is empty now Todo o meu pesar A minita vida toda
4.
GAZA STRIP MALL (GET HAPPY) Look who’s shopping in the Gaza Strip Mall Look who’s shopping in the Gaza Strip Mall That’s what happens when you get happy, get happy That’s what happens when you get happy, happy again When it’s not about you Is that the woman from the place I’m going to? Please tell me true, when it’s not about you.
5.
GOVERN MY LOVE (QUASE PERDI MEU GARFO) Almost lost my fork But I didn’t lose my fork Quase perdi meu garfo Mas eu não perdi meu garfo Will you govern my love today?
6.
Twin Minutes 03:57
TWIN MINUTES Twin minutes, twin minutes with you Twin minutes, twin minutes with you
7.
MY LOVE’S GONE REMIX My love’s gone. It got all used up. Now my love’s gone
8.
COMO EU ESTIVE CEGO Como eu estive cego a vida inteira How I stayed blind in one lifetime How I stayed blind in one lifetime E ev sei E vc sabe Mas a gente não está la agora Mas a gente não está la And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now and then And I know it and you know it but we’re not there now
9.
WHEN THIS SIDE IS EMPTY All my sorrow all my life All my sorrow all my life When this side is empty, when this side is empty now When this side is empty, when this side is empty now
10.
CLARION HOTEL I’m dyin’ in the water I don’t know where the water’s gonna go The keys on the table The train’s out the door The bottle of whiskey We’ve been here before The laughter and secrets With time on our side Has slipped away slowly And shortened this ride If living is dying I’m dying with you A notch on the bottle: Forty one’s forty two A kiss for a handshake A clarion call: That love is the winner And winner takes all I’m dyin’ in the water I don’t know where the water’s gonna go They’re leavin’ the morning Clarion hotel Mark and Liz are drivin’ I’m wishing in their well The give without taking The train asking why The bottle of whiskey They’re saying goodbye

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EXITMUSIC 1011
Written, arranged and produced by
Mikel Rouse
EXITMUSIC RECORDINGS

Dubbed by one critic as “Cage and Cunningham on steroids”, International Cloud Atlas is the latest release from the mind of Mikel Rouse. Rouse conceived this idea to accompany the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s eyeSpace and thought it would be a perfect homage to Cage and Cunningham to have everyone listening on iPods (set to shuffle, of course) as they watched the performance unfold. Says Rouse, “The sequence of tracks on this recording represents but one version of this composition. As with the dance performance, the sequence may be set to “shuffle” to yield a possible 3,628,800 permutations”.

John Rockwell of the New York Times said of International Cloud Atlas: “What was thrilling about hearing the music this way was how personal it was. We were all cocooned in our own worlds, hearing something different, just for us. “All the audience members have their own secret, their own special version,” Mr. Rouse was quoted as saying in Time Out New York. It was the purest realization of Mr. Cunningham’s chance aesthetic, the ultimate in intimacy”.

Music composed and arranged for iPods
For The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

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released September 12, 2006

Recorded and mixed November 2005–May 2006 at ExitMusic, NYC
Mastered at ExitMusic, NYC
Design and photography by Marit Brook-Kothlow / Cover design by M+R NYC
Written, arranged and produced by Mikel Rouse
©  2006 Mikel Rouse / All rights reserved
Published by Club Soda Music (ASCAP)
Lyrics used by permission
See PDF Digital Booklet for complete list of contributors.

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Mikel Rouse New York, New York

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more

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