Music from the Original Motion Picture

• The Host of Seraphim
  The Serpent's Egg

  Composed & Performed by Dead Can Dance
  Courtesy of 4AD Limited
  By Arrangement with Momentum Music / Virgin Special Products

  Original music by Michael Stearns
  Music recorded at M'Ocean Studios, Marina Del Ray, CA
  Percussion Overdubs: Miguel Rivera
  Sound Effect Supervisor: John Morris
  Album Supervision & Production: David Franco
  Special thanks to Mark Magidson & Ron Fricke
  (c)(p) 1993 Milan, all rights reserved

  Baraka is an ancient Sufi word with forms in many languages. It is simply translated as a blessing, or the breath or essence of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds. Baraka, the epic non-verbal film, tells the story of the Earth's evolution, man's diversity and interconnection, and his impact on the planet. According to director Ron Fricke, "It is a journey of rediscovery that plunges into nature, history, the human spirit, and fimally into the realm of the infinite." The film was shot in 70mm in 24 countries, in diverse locales such as Brazil, Nepal, Cambodia, Kuwait, India, Tanzania, and Iran.

• Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book
  Original Spanish version
  Da bienes Fortuna
  que no esta'n escritos:
  Cuando pitos flautas,
  cuando flautas pitos.
  
  Cua'n diversas sendas
  se suelen seguir
  en el repartir
  honras y haciendas!
  A unos da encomiendas,
  a otros sambenitos.
  Cuando pitos flautas,
  cuando flautas pitos.
  
  A veces despoja
  de choza y apero
  al mayor cabrero;
  y a quien se le antoja
  la cabra ma's coja
  pare dos cabritos.
  Cuando pitos flautas,
  cuando flautas pitos.
  
  En gustos de amores
  suele traer bonanza
  y en breve mudanza
  los vuelve en dolores.
  No da a uno favores,
  y a otro infinitos.
  Cuando pitos flautas,
  cuando flautas pitos.
  
  Porque en una aldea
  un pobre mancebo
  hurto' so'lo un huevo,
  al sol bambolea;
  y otro se pasea
  con cien mil delitos.
  Cuando pitos flautas,
  cuando flautas pitos.
  

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  The original Spanish version of Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book is from the poem 'Letrillas' (1581) by the priest Luis de Gongora. The interesting thing about this piece is that Dead Can Dance changed "a hundred crimes" into "a thousand crimes" in their version.

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