DESCRIPTION:
After the succes of the Calling All Dawns' Lyrics/Live Video, here are the lyrics of "The Drop that Contained the Sea" by Christopher Tin, with the performance of the Angel City Chorale.

Link to the lyrics video of Calling All Dawns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJYWtzivvWo

Link to Christopher Tin's official website (here you can download the digital booklets of the songs):
https://www.christophertin.com/

Link to the Angel City Chorale's official webstie:
http://angelcitychorale.org/

Here are two rules I followed in the creation of the video:
1) When I had enough knowledge of the language of the song, I created a translation by myself, with the help of David Spada (where you find grammatical mistakes, that's where I didn't ask his help), instead of using the one on the digital booklet. This choice was born from the idea that, since songs are in their original language, and not in their translations, the best way to understand the meaning of the songs (beyond learning the language and using interlinear glosses xD) is to have an highly literal translation.
I don't know if you'll enjoy my work, since a literal translation is surely less poetical than a free one, and since maybe there is a reason for Christopher Tin chose those translation on the booklet; but I felt I had to do that while I was working on this video.
2) I wanted to give the same space to every soloist; since some songs were repeated by different soloists in different days, I mixed the videos of the two different days.

Concerning recurring melodies, here we don't have as much as on Calling All Dawns; the only recurring melody is the water theme, to that Christopher Tin gives a large and amazing comment at the beginning of the digital booklet of the album. The reprises by me found of this water theme are at the beginning of the video, as presentation of the album.

Hope you'll enjoy the video :)

Song List:
00:11 Water Prelude
01:58 Haktan Gelen Şerbeti
06:14 Temen Oblak
13:42 Iza Ngomso
18:10 Tsas Narand Uyarna
22:31 Passou o Verão
29:42 Devipravaha
35:18 Seirenes
46:01 Haf Gengr Hriðum
51:00 Waloyo Yamoni

[Following the introduction to the previous video, the Calling All Dawns Lyrics/Live Video; here is the origin creation of this video too]
There is plenty of elements in Christopher Tin's albums: it doesn't concern only music (of course, music is what ties all together), but also linguistics (every song is in a different language), literature (every text is an excerpt from a pre-existent text adapted to an original music), philosophy (the cycle structure of albums, their religious/social/poetic content); this is what, in my opinion, makes his work of great artistic and cultural value.
I wanted to study his songs, especially their texts, and the best way to do that was to read lyrics and translations simultaneously with the music; Christopher Tin allowes us to do that with a free download of his albums' digital booklets in his official website; anyway, to make things even easier, and to promote Christopher Tin's works, I created what I'd have liked to find when I just knew Christopher Tin, a Live with Lyrics; in this way, though songs are a little bit different, the vision is surely less demanding.