{"id":4820,"date":"2010-01-19T23:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T20:31:57","slug":"castles-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/castles-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Castles Made of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/8834908\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Castles Made of Sand<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Music, Lyrics and Vocals by Karin Maria Andersson<br \/>\nGuitar and video by Olivier Milchberg<br \/>\nMacau (SAR) China, January 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This video has clips from the Cirque Du Soleil artists of ZAIA starting in Montreal, Canada from January 2008 during training (and lots of snow!) to late 2009 backstage, and during rehearsals for the show at the Venetian in Macau (SAR) China.<\/p>\n<p>For us in the show the video is extremely emotional. Some of the people in this video are no longer with us in Macau. The time of ZAIA is one that all of us will remember and many of us will cherish. The experiences we had in China for many of us were not what we expected &#8211; they were experiences and adventures we could have never imagined; many good and some painful for each of us.<\/p>\n<p>I normally don&#8217;t get seen in videos or promo photos &#8211; so thank you to Olivier for getting me in there several times. Fun to see the musicians and how all of our looks changed from the beginning in Montreal to the journey in China. As our composer told us: &#8220;You all look more shiny.&#8221; I would agree. Cirque and China have allowed us to shine.<\/p>\n<p>I think this video will give a sense of closure to many of us for a slice of time we spent together &#8211; a &#8220;castle made of sand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I am personally moved by the video in a way beyond words. Thank you to Maria and Olivier for this truly precious gift of song&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>*Update: A new audio version of this song:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Feather+And+Down\/_\/Castles+Made+of+Sand\">https:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Feather+And+Down\/_\/Castles+Made+of+Sand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And a note from Olivier on this video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><em>Hi all my dear friends,<\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><em>Here is a new video on the creation of Zaia. It&#8217;s a tribute to Zaia artists, and especially to Maria and the musicians.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>I asked Maria to compose a song for it, and she did it just before leaving Macau.<br \/>\nThese images can seem nostalgic in our situation, but the purpose of this video is only to highlight the strong and moving times we spent together; sharing sorrow and joy, as Maria says.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><em>It&#8217;s my way to say thank you to all of you, and to express my admiration of the amazing talent of every artist.\u00a0And let&#8217;s remember, even if this adventure stops right now, our talents will continue to shine and spread over the planet.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Olivier<\/em><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>CASTLES MADE OF SAND<br \/>\n<em> LYRICS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know what was waiting<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t know a single thing<br \/>\nJust knew I had to take this chance<br \/>\nBut no clue all it would bring<br \/>\nBut I knew why I was here<br \/>\nBoy I would sing<\/p>\n<p>And I sang til I was bleeding<br \/>\nAs I open up my heart<br \/>\nAnd my voice filled up the theater<br \/>\nAnd you were there from the start<br \/>\nTo fill every inch with magic<\/p>\n<p>So take me by the hand<\/p>\n<p>All the days we&#8217;ve spent together<br \/>\nWere castles made of sand<br \/>\nAnd the waves came and joined us forever<br \/>\nIn the big sea<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been there all the time next to me<\/p>\n<p>You were there through joy and sorrow<br \/>\nYou were there with laughs and tears<br \/>\nAnd we built a dream together<br \/>\nSomething beautiful and new<br \/>\nSomething shinier than ever<br \/>\nAnd right here<\/p>\n<p>So take me by the hand<br \/>\nAll the days we&#8217;ve spent together<br \/>\nWere castles made of sand<br \/>\nAnd the waves came and joined us forever<br \/>\nin the big sea<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been there all this time next to me<\/p>\n<p>So take me by the hand<\/p>\n<p>All the days we spent together<br \/>\nWere castles made of sand<br \/>\nAnd the waves came and joined us forever<br \/>\nIn the South China Sea<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been there all this time<br \/>\nNext to me&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castles Made of Sand Music, Lyrics and Vocals by Karin Maria Andersson Guitar and video by Olivier Milchberg Macau (SAR) China, January 2010 This video has clips from the Cirque Du Soleil artists of ZAIA starting in Montreal, Canada from January 2008 during training (and lots of snow!) to late 2009 backstage, and during rehearsals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818],"tags":[3495,3491,3518,3480,3484,3487,3505,4102,143,3507,3486,3493,3488,3483,3489,2938,201,3482,1822,1360,3506,206,3481,564,355,3485,3492,3494,196,4108],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1fK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}