Idumea- Eliza Carthy/Tim Eriksen

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First song in the second set of "Murder, Misery and Goodnight" at the Sage Gateshead Summertyne Americana Festival last Friday. It was a lot of fun in a great venue, and lots of fun to play in the round with Kristin Hersch (Throwing Muses), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), The Handsome Family and "house band" David Coulter (musical director) and Neil Harland on bass. Shot by Magdalena Zapedowska Eriksen.

[@VictorLepanto]

MY favorite Christmas song is O Come, O Come Emanuel. I'd so like to hear Tim do a version of this hymn. It really isn't a Christmas Carol, it is more for Advent. Still, every December, I cry when they sing it in Church. It is so full of unfullfillable longing. It is about how we can never be truly happy in this life.

[@jpof]

I guess you know by now Tim recorded it for his Christmas album, released a couple of years ago?

[@Chris-qt5cb]

I loved the Cassie Franklin duet so much. I come back to it regularly. Not sure how I missed this. So different in accompaniment but so good. Love the different styles of female voice. Wish I could sing well!

[@JordanRoyals]

Tim, you're an amazing performer. I don't think I've ever heard one of your arrangements that I didn't enjoy, thoroughly.

[@tritarch6687]

I know this is an 11 year old video but I wanted to say you got one hecc of a voice. God bless!

[@TimEriksenMusicVideo]

Thanks! I'm glad you were able to run across it amongst the billions of videos competing for attention

[@iainwright5914]

truly brilliant from both. spine tingling

[@bweaverla]

Tim, I'd love to hear a solo voice version of this from you. I think it would be very powerful. You have recorded many versions with various accompaniments, including yours but this song for me just aches for a solo voice, one lone human voice telling the story of being human.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I read on Wikipedia that Tim is also a Professor of musicology at Amherst University.

[@justforever96]

VictorLepanto Thanks for turning me on to "Christos Anesti"! It is wonderful! And "Oh Come Emmanuel!" is my favorite too! "Star In The East" is my second favorite, esecially the way my father used to sing it at our family advent gatherings. God Bless! =)

[@JunoNH]

i'd like this 50 times if i could. thank you so much for coming to the UK.

[@BardofCornwall]

Chilling!

[@joeburton77]

one of my favourite songs ever.. bravo!

[@mikesakhalin]

Fabulous! I was at the concert. What a great night it was!!!!

[@sirpepeofhousekek6741]

I think this might be my favorite rendition of Idumea so far.

[@judeseamus]

this gave me chills

[@TheHeartMadeOfStone]

This is beautiful

[@owenbrucemckenzie]

Well then, this is fantastic. Any hope for an album, or EP, together? Jumping the gun? I hope not.

[@Ullarobinlilly]

Great! Love from Berlin!

[@mazzo99]

You should be famous Tim.

[@eduardkainz5909]

i love this

[@conantheseptuagenarian3824]

so good.

[@TimEriksenMusicVideo]

@VictorLepanto I don't know it, though I've sure heard it plenty of Easter music from the Orthodox church in Ethiopia, Serbia and Transylvania- I have no idea how much liturgy is shared/ related between various Orthodox strands, but everything I've heard has been pretty amazing so I'd love to hear the Greek...

[@TimEriksenMusicVideo]

@VictorLepanto It's the first song on my Christmas CD! Unfortunately not for this year, but next. Yes it's just the most beautiful song I think- I figured it would be the natural candidate for first track since it's about the only advent song most people sing these days.

[@VictorLepanto]

@batfancy: Well, I guess I missed this post way back when. If you are planning making me happy performing my favoritest church music, one piece I'd really like to hear is something that is rather far afield from your normal material. Christos Anesti (or its Slavik equivolent Christos Voskrese) is the Eastern Church's great hymn of Easter. It is my cheerfull favorite. There are several treatments of it on TH-cam. The Greek means, "Christ is risen from the dead." Very powerful.

[@jaredchandler8962]

We sang that every year in our Catholic Church in Wales. We used this version. It really is very beautiful. churchmusic.goarch.org/assets/files/2013_Christ_is_Risen-Western_notation.pdf

[@mouldybear]

Fine effort Eliza. See Tim's other versions under "Am I Born To Die" or "Idumea" for more typical approach.

[@KATLINRIMER08]

awesome

[@VictorLepanto]

@batfancy: I wonder if you ever venture beyond the English canon of Gospel songs & shape note type hymns? May favorite hymn is the anthem of Easter from the Eastern rite churches. In the original Greek, "Christos Anesti;" or "Christ is risen from the dead."

[@justforever96]

Good.

[@fernandomarina4007]

only one voice in tune

[@michaelsanders9071]

just awesome voice Tim