About two weeks ago my mom got admitted into a hospital. She had been fighting terminal cancer for a year or two so this made me worried but my entire life she’s made it through things like this. Last week we found out that she just wanted it to stop. She was tired of the cancer leaving and coming back and all the surgeries and everything. Exactly a week ago, my dad took me to visit her. At the time she wanted to just give up right there and then.
After hearing that I was devastated, and while my dad drove us home I played this song in my headset; my dad liked his old Mexican songs so I let him enjoy them. I found this song years ago but it’s just so powerful, that I knew I needed to associate it with a very tragic event, and one came up.
The song is so hauntingly beautiful, it’s a serene shower of music and it’s feels alive. It made me realize that despite the tragedy of the event, it hurts because it was all so beautiful to begin with.
After I visited her last week, she decided she wanted to do a few last things, a procedure here and a CAT scan there. Yesterday her doctor told me, my mom, and our family (present in the room) that she had two options: check her lungs for airway blockages or take off the life support and see what happens. The previous night I overheard nurses saying that if she doesn’t break 20 mins it’ll be over. When they took her off the ventilator (and gave her a mask that helps with breathing) she made it for hours. I was so proud and happy I had to stop myself from jumping with joy quite literally. The entire week I had been visiting her and it’s been building up to this, and I’ve been hopeful because I couldn’t sleep otherwise and I didn’t want her last possible moments of people being sad around her. Me and my dad went home and I was so relaxed.
This morning at 2:30, I got a call from the hospital. She wasn’t able to breathe while asleep anymore, or reliably. The nurses let me talk to her as she died in her sleep. Obviously I’m heart broken and devastated and so on, but this song reminds me of how beautiful my mom truly was. Thank you Bonobo
All comments from YouTube:
@monaami555
just shazamed it from my balcony, thanks to whoever was playing it :D
@utd2040
You’re welcome!
@eypkel3165
Where are you writing from? We might be neighbours by little chance
@heusstefan4075
@@eypkel3165 r u fr real?
@eypkel3165
@@heusstefan4075 from Istanbul with love.
@WakeWorkRepeat
This is the most beautiful, inspiring song I have ever heard. I discovered Bonobo by chance, and he has helped me through many a time of loneliness, anxiety, and sadness. There is nothing more therapeutic than feeling unhappy, to come home from a hard day and put on one of Bonobo's albums. Thank you for helping me to not die.
@thatvolvoguy6565
I found him from a videogame called sleeping dogs his song kiara was on the radio in game been a fan every since
@genequist3859
This song reminds me of a sunrise.
@hello-tr3zx
hello
@Nomadmandude
This song reminds me of the past that I once had in my hands but failed to keep.
@jimmulator3902
I had this exact kind of experience with this song. It was a time of great loneliness, sadness, and tribulation. Somehow I stumbled upon this song and it gave the inspiration I needed to see things through no matter what. It was a strange but amazing time in my life.
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@1mauser2
This melody understands you.
@dunnyboi6275
+Jonas K chill
@princessateh4177
pure beauty
@anaiddor
Yes yes yes yes yes yes !
@ConvoSpark
YEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!!!
@sjvakser
Love this comment
@djbigbenny
This is a Sicilian based tune. My grandparents danced to the original at their wedding in Sicily. Check out Carmelo Zappula - Suspiranu for this original beautiful song. The words are deep and it’s in the old Sicilian dialect. Greetings from Brooklyn NYC.
@genequist3859
Nice. Both sound like they'd be at home in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
@yannicksks
Thank you for sharing that
@VindexInSanctiRex
If only all the samplers were as respectful as you were about the origin of their samples. Thank you and God Bless.
@alessandra2855
thank you for this reference benny.
@thillyre
Then I shall
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@Solomeister
You suddenly feel nostalgic of the life you never had
@weoweoteo
this comment. you nailed it!
@coeurtatoue
+Andrei Eleodor Sirbu tellement vrai..
@alexdelarge9425
+Andrei Eleodor Sirbu I haven't felt that yet, but I completely believe you.
@samuelgray3953
+Andrei Eleodor Sirbu ...or nostalgic for the love you had and lost.
@RJMoreno
I've described this exact feeling before when listening to Young The Giant - Apartment and also with Lower the Heavens by the Donkeys
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@JediKnight23
As a clarinetist, I appreciate the use of the instrument in the music here. It is so uncommon that music that isn’t specifically for band/orchestra will include a clarinet, and I’m just amazed at the way it is used so seamlessly here. Bravo!
@beefummus4298
this is the song I was listening to when I was at my lowest point, in bed, crying over my empty shell of a mind. the song brought me a sort of melancholic comfort, subconsciously telling me things would get better, but first you must grieve.
@russellx2993
never give up.
@patc8735
If you're listening to this then you DO NOT have an empty shell of a mind..you have EXQUISITE taste!🙂👌
@tumimoraba8384
I relate 😢
@michaelna6795
Feels like a song that could be played at my funeral. And I mean that in the most beautiful and uplifting of ways.
@rrezartaisma5662
😊😊
@rrezartaisma5662
😊o😊😊😊😊😊l😊p8😅
@redbead3448
I sat and listened to this, and saw parts of my life and memories playing inside my head like a movie.
@shourabhkumar7187
Red Bead even I felt the same bro
@pritamroy9485
Same I remebered things and experiences buried in my subconscious...memories I had ever never revisited,
@jules_8673
How has a piece of music done this for so many people? It’s unbelievable
@nocturnetreeshadow1852
things that happen when a person can live through a beautiful piece of art
@Gangularis
You should try listening to this on mushrooms. It will blow your mind.
@elishambadi3345
From a slight melancholy, to a cliff drop that starts up a glimmer of hope which explodes at 3:15 as the protagonist gets their life back and starts seeing the beauty and purpose of life afresh. It's a great crescendoing beauty, that fades slowly, as our protagonist achieves their goal and looks back at the life. When all is said and done, they're glad they picked up their baton and kept running. "It's only one life, and it's your life, use it wisely."
That's how I see this song. Absolute art.
@jimmulator3902
Yes, I love this. So glad I stumbled across this piece of art at the time in my life that I did. I had no idea what challenges were ahead, but this song helped give me the determination I needed.
@jackroberts3832
I know I'm late in responding, my apologies. Your analysis is spot on. I appreciate your insight, and wisdom. You echo my sentiments...well done.
@leahkrokowski
I'll never forget the first day I heard this song. I was in a Tarantella dance class (Tarantella is a type of dance native to Southern Italy), and my teachers asked the class to simply walk forward, slowly– thinking of what it is we want to see. Who are we? Who do we want to be? Where is it that our feet will take us in this life? We got into about 30 seconds of the song before the first girl walking began to start crying... and not sobbing or a bawling-like cry. Just uncontrollable tears, streaming down her face. By the end of the song, all of us except for maybe one or two people were crying. You could feel the life in the room that day. It was unreal. We were all vulnerable and beautiful, just like this music. You could look into the souls of each person as they walked across the room, even if you weren't directly looking them in their eyes.
@andginisin
That sounds absolutely amazing. Music and dance have the power to change lives...
@leahkrokowski
ShadyNightCrow you are so right– they do indeed.
@TheSolidlad
Just watched this (https://youtu.be/psjGEqLHyz4) video of yours while listening to this song and still having tears on my cheeks. I was impressed by your abilities to control your body.
@meshelnoori383
thank you for sharing this with us
@michelemohar9512
I cried when I saw Bonobo live band play this song in 2010 in Denver Colorado. Looked around and almost everyone had tears in their eyes.
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@MishaExAye
Good lord, when the clarinet comes in at 1:14. It's so damn melancholy. I Love it!
@nnnppp720
We are two different people from totally different places of world and a group of notes makes us feel the same melancholy. That’s where my thoughts on our existence, earth, space and ultimate belief of we are more than what we thought we are starts.
@bluesilkdesigns
Always and forever my favorite Bonobo song. The clarinet and trumpet make my life!
@alfredszep9172
W.C. J and violin😉
@godesofdnyte
Thank you for confirming it was the clarinet. I’m inspired to pick mine back up after 22 years.
@bluesilkdesigns
@@godesofdnyte happy to help! This song was one of the reasons I picked up the trumpet
@alexvillarreal9789
This song takes me back to my room in a house i used to live in a few years ago. It was a very dark place of my life and i would never go back there but hearing this song takes me back to visit and i can remember every detail of my room of my life of my failures. Just visiting....never going back. This song reminds me i survived.
@f1errar1
This song is life itself.
@KibaxKitsune
listening to this on a rainy day is magic
@alohaalt3543
+Midorima Shin-chan Pretty much on every-day, litteraly diferent feelings in diferent weathers
@laylobinson5839
Still one of THE most beautifull songs i have ever heard. Simply amazing.
@TheSopheom
The composition is masterful. Love it.
@wilfredv1930
how is that I have lived so many years without listening this masterpiece ...
@dryridley208
About two weeks ago my mom got admitted into a hospital. She had been fighting terminal cancer for a year or two so this made me worried but my entire life she’s made it through things like this. Last week we found out that she just wanted it to stop. She was tired of the cancer leaving and coming back and all the surgeries and everything. Exactly a week ago, my dad took me to visit her. At the time she wanted to just give up right there and then.
After hearing that I was devastated, and while my dad drove us home I played this song in my headset; my dad liked his old Mexican songs so I let him enjoy them. I found this song years ago but it’s just so powerful, that I knew I needed to associate it with a very tragic event, and one came up.
The song is so hauntingly beautiful, it’s a serene shower of music and it’s feels alive. It made me realize that despite the tragedy of the event, it hurts because it was all so beautiful to begin with.
After I visited her last week, she decided she wanted to do a few last things, a procedure here and a CAT scan there. Yesterday her doctor told me, my mom, and our family (present in the room) that she had two options: check her lungs for airway blockages or take off the life support and see what happens. The previous night I overheard nurses saying that if she doesn’t break 20 mins it’ll be over. When they took her off the ventilator (and gave her a mask that helps with breathing) she made it for hours. I was so proud and happy I had to stop myself from jumping with joy quite literally. The entire week I had been visiting her and it’s been building up to this, and I’ve been hopeful because I couldn’t sleep otherwise and I didn’t want her last possible moments of people being sad around her. Me and my dad went home and I was so relaxed.
This morning at 2:30, I got a call from the hospital. She wasn’t able to breathe while asleep anymore, or reliably. The nurses let me talk to her as she died in her sleep. Obviously I’m heart broken and devastated and so on, but this song reminds me of how beautiful my mom truly was. Thank you Bonobo
@bvdheiden
Always coming back to this song to reflect on my life. It gives me goosebumps and tears of happiness every single time. That is what I call a special piece of music.
@msperfectionable
A guy showed me this on the train and I'm trying to find him, his names James and we met in 2015. I think he's from redditch or somewhere in the Midlands and he was coming back from a Liverpool game, I hope he sees this :)
@alexladd3052
ah, how cute, good luck.
@rsmania01
Good luck pal :)
@yasminebelcaid6447
Good luck ❤❤❤
@jbeans500
good luck!!! 🌠
@dryridley208
Hope you two meet again
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@KlausSmooth
I simply love monotone long music that builds up through... This have so many emotions. I've been listening this for years and it never gets old, thanks to Johnny Marr for recommending it
@Albanez39
This sis everything but monotone.
@jasonlee186
I think she meant it as one feel (idea) that builds more and more as opposed to monotone (same note)
@gamesurvivor1077
I'm a writer, and when I am writing mystery or a short about life or death I always write to this song.
@samisaab9207
Heard it on the radio, shazammed it. Best use of 3G ever...
@krateling4285
What station was this?
@samisaab9207
I was just messing around with the radio. Stumbled upon this song completely by chance, so I can't help you there. Sorry, buddy. Although you should totally take my advice and "explore". Check as many stations as you can, you never know when you might find an amazing song or station that hasn't earned the recognition it deserves.
@krateling4285
Sounds like a plan. I love this type of music and have a bit of a collection, but no radio station around here plays it.
@minimalisthealth
Isn't playing the song itself better use of 3G? ;)
@LearningBangladesh
@Krateling can you share your collection with us?
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@clarencedottery8602
just discovered this song on the way home from work and I literally sat in my driveway and listened to it on repeat for about 30 min. Felt like all my worries just went away. love it..
@ameliah3263
I can picture a man with a troubled past and a tough future , on the streets playing music for anyone who will listen and this is his life story as a song.
I love this song because of how amazing this is without someone telling you what is happening to him or her
@madber2964
You just described me to a tee and I listen to this song just about everyday since about 2 years ago. Shit makes me cry at times, it just hits that deep haunting sadness of ones "predicament".
@AndrewSmith-iq6xo
@@madber2964 what's your predicament?
@marinajimenez7494
It brings me to old french streets many decades ago...But I've never been in France and I am from 1991. As Andrei said in a comment, I feel nostalgic of a life I never had
@restlessness.2920
That clarinet made me feel goosebumps.
@user-xv7lz9qj3v
I have never listened to such a peaceful song that just makes me wanna stand up and dance. For some minutes all my problems are gone from just listening to this song. It is so therapeutic. I am grateful that my dad introduced me to Bonobo because he always listens to it on car rides
@KlausSmooth
Can't stop listening this, i'm listening this for over year now and it's still like the first time
@dorota7386
***** for me the same! :D
@cyndellcaramogawa6788
yess, is it!
@arkiemisspriss
I have listened to the entire album probably 50 times or more. When I was stressed at work, I’d put my earbuds in and block the world out. Love, love Bonobo!
@nsakyuz
This song is really effective on me. I listen almost everyday. Take it me a trip which I lived good/bad memories. Very confusing... Friendships, university days, family... Very good job by BONOBO.
@SuperAansteker
I always play this after someone close to me died, be it a pet or a family member. This song somehow manages to always pull out the tears and initiate my mourning process. Thanks Bonobo for creating such a beautiful piece of music :)
@TheNothingEverything
"Feel the fear and the pain, let it all in, and then let it all go."
@KOSMIKFEADRECORDS
You got it!
@LesterJames-gm3rr
Thank you. Even after 7 years, it feels like you spoke to me, a stranger. I needed the song for inspiration. I'm sure it wouldn't have made much difference, but then...
@TheNothingEverything
@@LesterJames-gm3rr This is crazy timing I was listening to this yesterday after somebody I knew passed. Hadn't listened in ages. Universe works in mysterious ways eh. I'm glad the comment provided some support for you.
@GyopiDaFish
This is more than music, its art, it takes your creativity and thoughts into a new place and makes them work in ways they usually aren't used to. I feel a sense of realization and maybe a slight bit of sadness , and some sort of hope .
@TheSopheom
Music theory at its best. Simon is truly masterful.
@Jds_7
I visualized it like i'm walking down the streets of a rainy vintage 50's or 60's city... What an incredible waltz from an Electronic music artist...
@abdullahburakgun7112
voice of happiness , but saddness at the same time. Meaning , pure art.
@moyascollagechannel
This song makes me feel cloudy and rainy Istanbul's streets. So beautiful ..
@galardo1995
moya ive been there. I think its a beautiful and great city. Hope I can go there again
@txbht14
is rightfully belong to rome
is byzantium not instabutt
give back rightful clay
@mangamaniac2464
txbht14 You need to pick your moments to claim Istanbul a little better as that's in terrible taste right now
@xnpq
txbht14 instanbul comes from the greek sentence "to the city"
@isimsizkisi2350
🇹🇷🇹🇷
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@kokroucz
is it ok if I cry a little? the most beautiful song I've ever heard
@konstantinosmanolis5018
it's really beautiful, reading all these comments from different people and most of them travel somewhere in their own special place with the same song... this song for me feels like im somewhere in italy on an aprils morning....
@brunovaz
I cry everytiem
@sobameelsalame
This song is... everything. All the emotions. All the situations. The macro. The micro. All. Just... wow...
@lasarousi
it isnt exclusively for after a loss of a person (broke up, travel, death, whatever) this just goes into your freaking inner tissues and press those supressed feelings of anything and everything that once was sad.
i have a stable relationship, a home, food, people that care for me.
still this makes my eyes glassy and the feel to walk under the already cold rain.
the power of music.
@joerodriguez2778
All I can say is that I am so glad I found this song. Pure beauty.
@parthsharma5283
this song is seriously the best , it gives you an infinite vibe Like it's never gonna end
@mrred773
I dream of adventure. Purple skies and apocalyptic landscapes stretching father than my mind can fathom, as my friends by my side take a hopeless but beautiful journey with me. We see sights no man has ever seen before, feel things no person has, we start as our broken human shells and enrich. Our hopeless and bleak journey becomes less hopeless, less bleak, as the ruined and gothic temples and towns we travel to are repaired. We figure out that our life has meaning again, that there's something about it worth fighting for.
I listen to this song, and it's true. God, is it true.
@gardeninggnomesmaintenance5637
Fuck yes Mr Red
@chousaru
exactly how i feel when playing minecraft. playing mc while listening to this, like strawberries and cream ;)
@Rohan.S.Patne.
❤️❤️❤️
@hazemabdulmoneim9997
this is beautiful.
@michaelmasse3553
It makes me feel hope and sadness at the same time
@ArkansasGamer
Perfect description.
@abhinavprabhakar2565
The song gives me peace, after being emotionally damaged. I needed this, thanks.
@taniadelacombe4476
Master piece, listening every single day at the sunset on my sacred mountains, and suddenly night comes even more beautiful. ..
@micest221
Just Shazamed it from a DW documentary and have been hooked on it. Thankfully, I can replay as much I have breath!!!!!!!
@richardgayle347
This beautiful song still reminds me of someone I loved and a beautiful example of Greek and Southern Italian music. It still touches the soul all these years one
@shreyapalodhi5268
With all that is going on in this world, I suddenly remembered this song. Listening to this song in the current scenario of unrest made me so sad that I cannot even comprehend. As of today, more than 9950 people in the world have succumbed to the Coronavirus in the entire world. I saw a picture of Italy where there was a line of cars carrying the dead bodies of people in Italy. That genuinely broke my heart. I do not know why this tune was constantly ringing in my head. Whoever is reading this, I hope we overcome the disease together. Stay safe, stay indoors.
@glov13
I've known this song for a while now but listening to it the past few days has been a completely different experience, stay strong everyone!
@parikshithom1965
You are an empath 💛💙💛🌼
@thomasw4743
God help you if a real pandemic blows thru lmao
@AdityaJain1
As of today, the worldwide coronavirus death toll stands at over 258,000 people. Please stay safe guys.
@KingRabid
Matthew chapter 24 will explain it all for you.. Jesus has only been calling out to the world for thousands of years now. read it or dont, its really up to you, but this is only the beginning of troubles.
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@juliedevall9443
I always come back to this. WHY? I think the answer is in the question. WHY is a big answer...it creates space....Been following these guys for 10 years now and they never disappoint. Their music is "therapy". Great track.
@roberth7054
this song, it's voice truly feels like my friend's who just died, I played this on the way home from her wake (a 6 1/2 drive home) and it just flooded me with peace and pain. Today I went to work on a painting, put Bonobo on shuffle and this was the first song...I just about lost it. She died from breast cancer, during the same time my wife was being treated as well, I feel horrible that I didn't know and couldn't support her and her husband.
@JKafle
When i first listen this track almost 3 yrs back , i entirely gave up listening all other my music collection (All genre, except new age and lounge music). Im an atheist but this track brings me down on my knees every time i listen this one. Perhaps my life was in a bumpy road then (Still in). I don't know for sure.
@shikieracodrington6706
This song sounds like the energy one feels as the season has shifted into Autumn
@AMKLAX
As I am listening to it now in October ;)
@kevinsilvernail7599
when that clarinet comes in......goosebumps
@nathalyseverino8041
Kevin Silvernail exactly!!!😨💖
@downersh
This song feels old, with history, passionate events both good and bad. It gives you happy tears or sad smiles.
@watsyurdeal
This song, can't explain why but it has this very sad tone to it, almost as if it's the end of all things.
That's just what it makes me see visually, typhoons, storms, all that sort of stuff.
@00vaag
+watsyurdeal I actually teared up the first time i heard this song, it got thinking about those who passed away in my life. I felt like i was somewhere else entirely.
However.. with YT sound quality.. not so much. The difference is just too big.
@00vaag
Chris Conaway You're being the depressed douche here. Taking out your anger on others in the youtube comment section like a complete muppet.
@watsyurdeal
Your opinion on people you don't know does not make it fact.
If you don't get how this song can be depressing you need to listen to it again.
@00vaag
+watsyurdeal he can have a different feeling with this song, we all experience music in our own way after all.
@watsyurdeal
True, I agree with that
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@gubzs
This is a fantastic song to enjoy on a boat with someone you trust
@JONCONkimili
what a song i did forget about this for years and find it again if i live enough i'm certain this will happen again
@lycorisradiata2706
There are people in your life that will shape that "life" I'll never forget them, nor stop to love them. Even when gray skies arrive, they bring color to my life. Thank you for everything, especially you reading this.
@kir8620
❤️
@CraftyMusoOfficial
If you have an acoustic guitar just start noodling in C minor over this, feels so nice
@blupengu
i'm so glad rainy mood introduced me to this
@henriqueflorsheim
+blupengu what's rainy mood?
@blupengu
+Children Of Sand it's a website that just plays a raining sound effect, and each day there's different songs that are suggested to go with it lolz
@nr1027
Xqcl I enjoyed the music
@rep_reprobit
I'm not forgetting you. Never ever.
@LungaNN
Once played this jam when I cycled from Port Elizabeth to Jbay South Africa. Had it on repeat
@mattsalamone1365
I'm not sure how many of these instruments were record in the same room at once, but if that's the case, I could only imagine how much soul and pure emotion was running through that room alongside the electricity powering everything.
@avaguard4
True to that
@ukiluser
Matt Salamone thats not how recordings are done
@aciaookamy9965
Tellement d'émotions et de passion dans cette musique, juste parfaite..
@Gilgamex
I remember I use to get high AF and listen to this. I really loved it from the start, but more from a musical standpoint, not so much the message and what the vibrations, the story that its telling. I cried so hard over this incredible feeling of sadness amongst the old Italians, Italians have been suffering under incredible stress for so long now. They are facing so much upheavel and frustration, and most importantly its the culture, the culture of today has lost its way to them I feel. They forgot about the loving family parties, sticking together, looking out for each other, caring about our own, so many broken families, drugs infested the streets, so many broken homes and families. All the romances in the vinyards, all the eras of immense pride, power and prestige. Italy is crying out in millions of ways from every pore and boy, did i weep.
@amaliacardoso5730
The word "beautiful" could have been invented for this song.
@frankielightyear3300
I died last year God brought me back.this is the feeling of an endless fall and the mind waking up in another place.
@allynsmith5026
Frankie Lightyear bro. Seriously. Chills when I read what you wrote. I had a stroke a few months after hearing this for my first and only time until recently. I was introduced to it by a friend and I told him how much I loved this track after the first time I heard it. We had a falling out and out of the blue he sends me a youtube link and it was this. The second I heard it I was flying, looking down at what I soon realized was my life being played out right before my eyes. I heard this music and witnessed the same scenario that day. It would have been my exit/farewell tune. EMTs and hospital staff pressed the proverbial pause button and brought me back. This music is grey, yet soothing. A bittersweet vibe washes over me when I hear it.
@SuperCutiepie1012
this takes me somewhere else. some ancient temple in the clouds , with Asian architecture.
@zazie.c-f
+Laoindolack MT Me it reminds me of an old circus, I don't know why..
@matheuscordeirodossantos1229
+SmoochyZizie Me too... It's like burlesque + depressive + vintage.
@zazie.c-f
Matheus Cordeiro dos Santos Exactly !!
@peterblacksmith3817
+Likely maybe the Oboe
@zazie.c-f
Peter Blacksmith Yes it is possible , and all these instruments mixed with some mechanical noise , and these songs that are repeated ...
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@marisamarquesouteiro9485
Oh damn! I could be there live Do unfortuntely...However,, I listen these melodies almost every day.. they make so much sense they are incredible ..Thank you for being and making it happen
@Keyturk
The first time I heard to this song was 6th grade I believe. I had been obsessed with Bonobo, but clearly hadn’t heard his full discography (even though I thought I did). I was in the middle of taking my laundry out of the dryer when I heard the shift into the main melody. And I stopped what I was doing immediately. I walked over to the sink which had this ‘window’ that overlooked the downstairs living room, put my hands on the metal rim, and stared. Listened. Understood. Empathized. Felt. Felt full.
Since then, I’ve listened to the song the dark bedroom at my grandma’s house, reminiscing about a childhood now buried by the anger and disillusionment I experienced through 10th grade and now was especially experiencing during the beginnings of quarantine. I’ve listened to the song on the bus ride to school, the day of my AP Research presentation during senior year, preparing my mind the what was ahead. I’ve listened to the song while coming back from my first year of college, while passing through the familiar mountains, nearing home with my mom and grandma. I’ve listened to the song to remember. I’ve listened to the song to move forward. I’ve listened to the song be moved. I’ve listened to the song to feel.
And now, I listen to the song, because I remembered how special it was to me. There really are no words to describe the feeling. And now seeing the many different contexts in which I’ve listened to the song, I understand more of why I love it so much. Why it loves me so much and makes me happy. Each context is completely different and thereby yields a different experience, a different understanding, a different meaning. Yet in each, I’m listening to the same song. Each moment is connected to what I’ve done, and connected by this particular feeling. And so, this song just sounds like life to me. It’s not completely straight forward, it’s filled with hardships, it’s incessant of continuing to weave. But joy underlies it all. Life is something to feel. Just like this song.
Thank you Bonobo ❤️
@norra222
Feels like i've been waiting for this song my whole life
@arashaada40
this song sends me deep into a euphoric, meditative state of mind. at peace with myself
@hR-gw3re
for me it feels like getting in a rustic boat, alone, into a sea full of fog and mist with no destination. maybe i'll come back, but probably i won't, and actually i don't really care. i can feel ghosts and spirits in the boat too. it makes me feel comfortable and resting in peace. as i want to be one of them. beautiful
@allisonvalencia3594
I can’t breathe. I can’t stop crying for how this song makes me feel. 🌹
@vedantgawade9812
This beautifully explains "The Sad Truth about Life"
@rsstar13
Just discovered this gem of a song.. Reading through everyone's comment on this masterpiece and soaking in all the emotions everyone is sharing. 🖤
@TheGonnzzo
this is a portal into another universe. one that is pure and true and beautiful. one that loves and gives.
@Vikram_J_Singh01
You don't need drugs or alcohol to get high .. Good music will do!
@XXHattoriHanzoXX
Beautiful Sadness...
@alinasengupta
This song makes me feel grateful for being alive
@StellaSola2030
This song always moves me a lot. To me it talks about forgiveness. Forgive others but especially yourself. Simply beautyful..
@paweprzezdziek9054
When I hear clarinet I hear my grandfather RIP my hero. Amazing song <3
@carotheplaylistmaker
C'est magnifique, vraiment j'adore ! Un morceau avec une rythmique de valse, moi contrairement à beaucoup de gens, je ne peux pas trouver ça triste, c'est juste beau, très beau. Et puis la clarinette, c'est big love assuré ☺👌
@whalelord9641
I'm not sure what this says, but I'll go with "Oui."
@HollaOn34Pimp
@@whalelord9641 that was rude
@xqyudhpoighnjrk8966
masterpiece
@gillesmatheronpro
Another musical jewel from Bonobo... superb ! Perfect end title song for Stéphane Brizé's movie "La Loi du marché" ("The law of the market"), about how workers can be interchanged and despised. The melancoly infused in this medoly is the absolute match for that movie.
@smiertspionem6667
Cool de voir que jsuis pas le seul qui vient de cet excellent film
@Duffett65
This is my all time favourite piece of music and I, like many people came across Bonobo completely by chance. This track was like nothing I'd ever heard before yet it struck a chord that brought wonderful memories of long gone friends and family and I come back to this album and specifically this track time and time again.
@APR944
I'm so entranced and speechless almost on the verge of tears this is very beautiful.
@nashmusic917
This song takes me to another world, love Bonobo.
@LennerM123
Reminds me of the music in Jodorowsky's 'Endless Poetry/Poesia sin fin' film. Has me ruminating on life, grateful for everything.
@yusuf1597
Reminds me somewhat of Yann Tiersen. Very nice.
@grainedeyogini8220
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain ;)
@deprxvedd
Linette M un francai!!!!!!!!!!!
@MGabby
same
@SuperSkyShock
This song is and will always be Simon’s magnum opus.
@samwheeler9072
so much emotion put into every piece of work this man has ever touched. god how I love this whole black sands album. so greatful I got to see him and Andrea with their live set on the black sands tour. they literally brought tears of beauty to my eyes at times. mad love and respect to all my fellow soul searchers out there yearning for a glimpse at something deeper in life. hope this song fills you with hope and love and a little sadness is ok too because that's all a part of life.. best of wishes
@gorgonitescum3990
People sometimes ask me why I often prefer instrumental music and my answer is always the same. Music does not need words to speak to you
@poeticjuvenile559
THIS MAN IS GENIUS I CAN'T EVEN
@nubzaquer
***** It means he can't operate in multiples of two.
@dryridley208
About two weeks ago my mom got admitted into a hospital. She had been fighting terminal cancer for a year or two so this made me worried but my entire life she’s made it through things like this. Last week we found out that she just wanted it to stop. She was tired of the cancer leaving and coming back and all the surgeries and everything. Exactly a week ago, my dad took me to visit her. At the time she wanted to just give up right there and then.
After hearing that I was devastated, and while my dad drove us home I played this song in my headset; my dad liked his old Mexican songs so I let him enjoy them. I found this song years ago but it’s just so powerful, that I knew I needed to associate it with a very tragic event, and one came up.
The song is so hauntingly beautiful, it’s a serene shower of music and it’s feels alive. It made me realize that despite the tragedy of the event, it hurts because it was all so beautiful to begin with.
After I visited her last week, she decided she wanted to do a few last things, a procedure here and a CAT scan there. Yesterday her doctor told me, my mom, and our family (present in the room) that she had two options: check her lungs for airway blockages or take off the life support and see what happens. The previous night I overheard nurses saying that if she doesn’t break 20 mins it’ll be over. When they took her off the ventilator (and gave her a mask that helps with breathing) she made it for hours. I was so proud and happy I had to stop myself from jumping with joy quite literally. The entire week I had been visiting her and it’s been building up to this, and I’ve been hopeful because I couldn’t sleep otherwise and I didn’t want her last possible moments of people being sad around her. Me and my dad went home and I was so relaxed.
This morning at 2:30, I got a call from the hospital. She wasn’t able to breathe while asleep anymore, or reliably. The nurses let me talk to her as she died in her sleep. Obviously I’m heart broken and devastated and so on, but this song reminds me of how beautiful my mom truly was. Thank you Bonobo
@monaami555
just shazamed it from my balcony, thanks to whoever was playing it :D
@utd2040
You’re welcome!
@eypkel3165
Where are you writing from? We might be neighbours by little chance
@heusstefan4075
@@eypkel3165 r u fr real?
@eypkel3165
@@heusstefan4075 from Istanbul with love.
@WakeWorkRepeat
This is the most beautiful, inspiring song I have ever heard. I discovered Bonobo by chance, and he has helped me through many a time of loneliness, anxiety, and sadness. There is nothing more therapeutic than feeling unhappy, to come home from a hard day and put on one of Bonobo's albums. Thank you for helping me to not die.
@thatvolvoguy6565
I found him from a videogame called sleeping dogs his song kiara was on the radio in game been a fan every since
@genequist3859
This song reminds me of a sunrise.
@hello-tr3zx
hello
@Nomadmandude
This song reminds me of the past that I once had in my hands but failed to keep.