{"id":1870,"date":"2018-05-27T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:20:13","slug":"recording-be-collaboration-across-five-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/recording-be-collaboration-across-five-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind &#8220;Be&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe width=\"760\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aaGMlzEVJE0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Recording &#8220;Be&#8221;: A Collaboration Across Five Countries<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">In Fall of 2017, four friends representing five countries came together to record a song. &nbsp;We represent different languages, different political systems, different upbringings, and different belief systems. &nbsp;Yet these differences pale in importance to our friendship, and together we made a little piece of art come alive.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Jane Huang is from the People&#8217;s Republic of China, speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, and currently lives in Guangzhou, Southern China. &nbsp;Busiswa Zondi is from South Africa and the United Kingdom, speaks English and Zulu, and is currently living in Guangzhou as well. &nbsp;Jos\u00e9 Luis V\u00edlchez is from Nicaragua and the United States, and Cora Rose is from the United States. &nbsp;Both Cora and Jos\u00e9 speak English and Spanish, and were living in Guangzhou at the time of the recording.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Background<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">I wrote &#8220;Be&#8221; in 2011 when I was living in New York City. &nbsp;I recorded a few demos and had a plan for how I would eventually like to record it, but then it was placed on the shelf for many years. &nbsp;Fast forward to 2017. &nbsp;I was living in China, Jos\u00e9 and I had met and fallen in love, and I was teaching everyday with Jane and Busi. &nbsp;I wanted to record &#8220;Be&#8221; and proposed the idea to Jos\u00e9, Jane, and Busi. &nbsp;We came together to make it happen, and it couldn&#8217;t have come out more beautifully. &nbsp;&#8211;<em>Cora<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">LYRICS<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> Simple roses growing toe-to-toe amid the blue<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> Skies up above that rain like lovers do<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> Too soon, too soon to understand the truth<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> You just sit for a while and be<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Longer days and shorter moments mark your working day<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Little things forgotten, and some have too much sway<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Too soon, too soon to lose an ounce of faith<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">You just sit for a while and be<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Refrain<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> And never, ever, ever want the one without the other<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> Never, ever feel without the two<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> Adorn your life with stories like the rainbow<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"> And then sit for a while and be<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Life she comes with armored roses, shifting by the day<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Years lived in sunshine, then some years lived in rain<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Too soon, too soon to give in, to be tamed<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">You just sit for a while a be<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">CREDITS<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Background vocals by Jane Huang, Busiswa Zondi, and Cora Rose<\/span><br><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Caj\u00f3n and clarinet by Jos\u00e9 Luis V\u00edlchez<br>Guitar and main vocal by Cora Rose<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Written by Cora Rose<br><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Recorded in Guangzhou, People&#8217;s Republic of China<br><\/span>Mixed and mastered by Jos\u00e9 Alejandro Mungu\u00eda Fonseca, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supraural.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SuprAural Studios<\/a>, Le\u00f3n, Nicaragua<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Video edited by Cora Rose<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">Video color correction by Jos\u00e9 Luis V\u00edlchez<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Be&#8221; is available for download on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/be-single\/1389836137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Be-Cora-Rose\/dp\/B07DBPKJ8S\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1527707218&amp;sr=1-1-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&amp;keywords=Cora+Rose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a>, and is available for streaming on Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording &#8220;Be&#8221;: A Collaboration Across Five Countries In Fall of 2017, four friends representing five countries came together to record a song. &nbsp;We represent different languages, different political systems, different upbringings, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-the-americas-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artwethereyet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}