went to the shanty singing night again last night, and oh my gooooooodddd this is scratching the choral itch for me so perfectly??? i'm too busy with political organising to commit to any level of formal chorale that would be as musically rigorous as i'd like (yes i know i'm a fucking snob whatever i know it).
but let me tell you some of the harmonies we were hitting last night were downright sonorous???? completely fucking vibrated the walls they were so tight??? got those overtones humming in the ceiling tiles?????? spontaneous weaving around each others' harmonies and just fucking around and more than just occasionally striking gold lol.
and it's shanty singing so it's raucous, bellowing, full-throated -- we were hooting and hollering and stomping and beating the table to the rhythm and making these sick room-filling chords to a background track of '10 hours pirate ship on a stormy sea asmr study sounds' fucking amazing???
so so so good i'm hooked forever
also @ripplestitchskein i need you to know how deeply you rearranged my dna with light of all lights bc we closed the night with 'leave her johnny' -- slow, soulful, harmonies tight as hell -- and i physically got choked up tears welling and all bc i was transported directly into that fucking brig
Babe I love you. That was my best writing experience to date. Also shanty singing sounds fucking epic I’m looking into it immediately.
