Civilization III

Civilization III

Laijon Liu 20121125

Oh, our life being in this world,

Shouldn’t it be a picnic in park?

Bathing in a clear stream and sun

Causaully sitting nude and rest under trees

Green spring medow, fresh fragant breeze

Birds glide and sing, frogs hop and call

Resonant noise is a melodic serenade

Echoes in every heart of attentive soulmate

Beauty-truth, truth-beauty

See, this is how I empower liberty thru nudity

Like birth of Venus enlightens all admirers

Wisdom and eros revealed on this mortal body

I say People, you see Mob

I see a Goddess, you say A Whore

I am here for my freedom of expression

But you desperately try to end a revolution

How we come to this point

That none of our view and focus get across

Dress codes rule over our faith and society

No one is allowed to be bare and frank

Only dead heroes, gods and goddess can be nude

And they must be molded and painted in vigorous form

Gentlemen are priets, judges and scholars

Their new cloth and rhetoric defines ‘superiority’

But my soul longs for a spring bath

My body yearns for sunshine and breeze

Ah, Liberty is power

Happiness is self-confident and content

From this moment onward

I daringly stare at the past and future

And smile at all critics and on-lookers

The world is a park, and life should be a picnic

What’s so serious about keeping the traditions?

And submit to the established orders?

Roll out your column of tanks

Aim your rock and throw at me

But I’m already liberated thru this suicidal act

Rules I break and remake

Ground I stand and fall and rise

Coz this breath I myself dictate

Yes! I am that I am!

Gods dwell in heavens, but we human reside on earth

I prefer nature and honesty over any garment and rites

My open status, profession as my title and name

Like fruit in my basket fell out upon the grass

What you see is what you get

I am raw and simple, careless and direct

I cast away the surrounding shadows

And abandon the proper setting of light

Only my braveness and unabashed gesture shines

In the center of this giant historical frame

What’s right or wrong, truth or false?

What’s fair or obscene, permitted or forbidden?

Whose principal we must follow

To work and party and to express?

I am the centerpiece of this feast

Like every individual in her private garden

Light, color, object, and shade

The planter has his privilege to sow and reap

Be not mad because I am undressed

Be not perplexed about my freedom and reason

Goddess only exist in their names

This earthly body is in its true ratio and natural form

Corpse are wrapped in shroud

A casket is to bury underground

Uniform is for work and church

Naked we are born and to resurrect

Behold

behold this remote garden scene

Be inspired

sunset and sunrise share same beauty

Hear

hear the calling frogs and birds song

and enjoy

and smile

and wake up in this nature’s symphony

-End-

Note: 
Poem on Manet’s Picnic painting
"Gentlemen are priets, judges and scholars": to avoid misinterpretation, this line is strictly targeted the society of the artist's time, when his society and culture was still in struggle and not yet fully developed to a democratic environment, and now this society still exist in far east and middle east, honorable name and prestige titles states as 'authority' that established by dictating government and unreasonable religious enterprises, their 'authority' is carried out by force, not by purification of people's free choice, free thinking and individual basic right and opinion.

Civilization I

My Friend's Music Compositions on Youtube

My friend's youtube channel for his music compositions:

For Elena

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsHcVT7mD0&feature=plcp

Golden Leaves Down By Autumn Breeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4xrdW9fdE&feature=relmfu

Sunshine In My Memory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTQbtZPWWME&feature=relmfu

Civilization II

Civilization II
Laijon Liu 20120918

Struggling to get up, striving to live on
What certainty and purpose we hold
To labor for our blind faith?

Everyday I stand and watch
The patrons: prime, young and old
Enter, exit this serving-catering place
While the gold and lavendor roses
Bloom, wither in a glass cup

Crystal chandeliers hang above
Glow like my radiant blonde hair
My blushing cream cheek bloom
like the pink corsage upon my breasts
I am a fragile modeling doll
bound in a blackswan coat
and tending behind a marble countertop

In front of me, a window
And behind me, a mirror
What I observe as reality
For you a merely reflection

On this cold gray marble countertop
Oranges lay in a glass-footed plate
Beverage bottles arranged by labels
Like me they bid for a price of need or pleasure

Flooding noise, drunken boasting crowd
Gentlemen social gestures in suit
Women in fashion with their fans
Their faces like broken petals, disappeared and forgotten

Their names I cannot memorize
Their features I can’t clearly draw
Their moment of being, consuming
vanished, when the hanging lights shut

Light shines, reveals an illusion
Darkness shrouds this canvas setting
How my surrounding is so bright
yet seems so drowsy in front of my puffy eyes

Topics of market and politics
Discussion of education and war
Gossips and affairs, meetings and dates
Family and friends, hosts and guests
carry on their usual business around tables

Clowns wait for their turn
To perform on the swing trapeze
They flip and dangle above the mass
To show off their survival technique

You see a modern oil painting
For me this is work and world
You see a nameless young model
But my stress and emotion are all real

Your observation on a reflection
is a forever puzzling scene
Your viewpoint and my focus
in a contridicted angle meet

In front of you, a painting, me
In front of me, a catering place

I stand before the patrons
I charge to pleasure them all

I see
feasts everyday, by night all become wastes
war like wildflame consumes, youth devoured
circus entertains, spice to paralyze our senses
material of luxury fulfills our spiritual happiness
between vision and reflection, dream and reality
people are all players, act their part on this stage

I see myself in a dressing mirror
Powdering my face cream
With a rouge lipstick
I restored the color of my lips

Do not despise my makeup and dress
This is the natural color
Like all of us wrapped in this eternal fashion
to deal and converse, to exchange and undress

success and failure, prosperity and poverty
birthday parties and funeral receptions
all be seen at this universal estate
how individual endeavor ends meaningless

Day in day out, people walk in and exit
Behind the cold marble countertop
I stand and stare, and forever wonder
This puzzling scene and these confusing terms:
Living, working, trading, brawling, struggling…

Ah- I’m tired and tired
I’m tired of standing, tired of watching,
tired of waiting and serving,
I’m tired to smile or frown.

(Manet’s Painting: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère)

Poem Part 3: Civilization III

Sonnet 129 : Lust, An Intense Longing

SONNET 129

The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
   All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
   To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.

Sonnet 129 Lust, An Intense Longing
Laijon Liu 2012.07.09

Ah, Lust, how we comprehend and define?
This old enemy, a slave ruler of body and soul.
Hormone, odors, warm sap and boiling milk
Breasts, muscles, soft trembling, contracting firm
Youth fairness beguile, old prudent ones set traps
Yet two-minute happy pride leads to lifetime strive
Kings and Queens hold on their crowns and thrones
Emperors, Pharaohs design their pyramids and high wall
Heroes die by their name; ministers bow to receive fame
Traders convert all thing to coins, miners dig gold
And all the world always hunger, never fulfilled
Invade! Ravage! Possess! Control! Unrest! Invest!
    In this we are born, and this cancer we die;
    And our future like we, scavenge present in dream.

Note:
Sonnet 66, 91, 112, 129 are some related about the Bard’s society, our society, and all society, as long as men do exist on earth these four sonnets are the eternal statement, especially #66 and #129, there are reasons I love these two poems: boldly rant truth, natural flow of thoughts and emotion, less academic composing work involved. I believe #129 is not about human natural sexual unrestraint desire, but a spiritual sin, “the expense of (spirit) in a waste of shame” and following line 3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 14. And I have an English dictionary that provides two meanings for word of Lust: sexual desire; intense longing. Like some pop song raps “Get Rich, Die Trying…” like Adam and Eve lust for the wisdom fruit, rulers lust for kingdom, talented artists musicians poets lust for fame, politicians lust for their purpose and name, business men lust for money and profit, religious leaders lust for their own interpretation and control, young girls want beautiful dress and shoes, kids want candy… like men feel the stong urge about women, we all lust, lust for good, lust for happiness, lust for fulfillment, lust for success, but

“All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.”

Girl Cutting Mango, Sam, Natalie Cutting Box

I love to watch or stare or enjoy looking at women, (there's nothing wrong, I am a guy, a guy should love something or someone beautiful, "food and lust are natural character. - Confucius" ) I can find attractiveness from every woman I think. there is inner beauty and outward fairness, like flowers or plants that poets and painters often describe in their work. Inner beauty we need to read and meditate to discover, usually women that we men live and work with; outward fairness often strikingly shine in front every men. and often countenance reveals one's character, emotion, social experience. that's why we watch movie and tv, stare at portraits in the art catalog, and a few talented novelist can write people, especially women's emotion and thought by painting characters' facial expression, look and gesture like Dream of Red Chamber. I guess because I love reading that novel and I was kind of raised by my grandma and mom so I always loved women's accompany, and I am extra sensitive to women on street or around me. their pureness of a little teenage girl, frowning or feeling bloated worrisome state in budding season, sharp and piercing wild angry nagging that drives every husband pray "O God, take this woman away.", smart and thoughtful co-worker type, administrative and authorship bossy managing type, confident and brave expression that I have seen during the earthquake, and housewife kind loving never resting character always locked in my memory. I love all of them, I even feel more close to women poets than men, I think I understand more women poet work than big name Li Po and Du Fu, I feel I'm more close to Shakespeare Sonnets because there's some sense of a woman voice in him, long enduring delicate and suffering tone, there's nothing wrong with that. Recently, there is a pretty teenage girl working her summer job at a tea house under my work building, I past by her a few times and really loved her facial expression that glows pureness and fair, so I asked her if I could take a few photo of her, as I guessed she would happily give me her permission so I did a few quick shot while she was cutting mango. she belongs to one of women beauty categories: innocent and fair or sweet.

Girl Cutting Mango

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Sam

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Natalie Cutting Box

Kneeling Art on Western and Chinese

Today, I bought a lunch box Chinese food, and I opened plastic bag discovered some art on my lunch box that really ignited my anger. the portrait shew a Chinese servant maid holding a serving plate while kneeling, such small designed print that really says something about Chinese culture and mentality about society, relationship with others, this position you never find in other culture beside Japanese and Korean, that both two countries are heavily influenced by empire era Chinese. It also reminded me how different the Western culture on this kneeling position, one position defines two people's rank, stand, value, relation, respect, how they must treat each other and how others must observe and abide this social greeting. In ancient China, son knelt before his father, people to emperor, common to official, wife to husband, live to deceased, today this lunch box designer painted an picture that restaurant waitress kneeling and serving her customer. But in Western art, there are not a lot of kneeling, I don't recall many prophets knelt before angels or God, did Moses or Jacob kneel? or any disciples to Jesus? Bible does not clearly state, or I should troll God wants us to be His friend, not His slave. However I found some related to kneeling, Ajax sorted of kneeling preparing his death, I guess the artist wanted readers to know Ajax cared nothing about worldly honor before his death, another record clearly stated a sinner begged for Lord's forgiveness so he knelt (NT), and now Tebow brand kneeling that involves prayer and thank to God for winning game. I think Westerners understand the true meaning of this position better than most Chinese, even nowadays most or almost every Chinese have no basic education of this kneeling art, one of great example: June 4th, Student kneeling down to beg China officials (the people's servants) for discussion of freedom and human rights. No wonder Democracy society was developed and built 2000 year ago in Greek and then spread to West, and China now still has no civil solution for political affair, it's the people don't have knowledge about basic value and stand on relationship. I kneel down to no one, I only bow down to truth. I now put a few kneeling pictures here to point out the fundamental difference .

Sonnet 121

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost which is so deemed
Not by our feeling but by others' seeing.
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown,
  Unless this general evil they maintain:
  All men are bad, and in their badness reign.

    

Pavement

Pavement

Shakespeare Is Number One (my favorite Sonnets)

I was drinking with my friend last weekend, often every weekend on the dinner table we talked about poetry, music, art film soccer, culture, politics, of course, 52% good liquor does draw such topic. and me and my friend compared some great poets, Chinese and English, I personally respect all of the poets, but I think Shakespeare Is Number One, even though I don't understand most of his drama and poems, often pronounce his name Shakesfear, my Chinese accent, also I don't read most or that many poets include the dead and alive, however I have a few Shakespeare Sonnets as my statement why the Bard is the one, so I translated a few of my 14 favorite sonnets here, I want to retain my Chinese translation copyright, because I think my version of the sonnets are most direct, correct, creative and blend of beauty.


SONNET 15
莎士比亚十四行诗 15

When I consider every thing that grows
当我思考每一物的生长
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
保持完美只是丁点瞬间
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
这宏大的舞台上演空虚却只现出
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
那繁星在暗中影响的栓释
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
当我认识道人如草木一样繁衍
Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky,
被同一个苍天鼓励和督查
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
在青春的口水中夸耀，从高处退减
And wear their brave state out of memory;
他们勇茂的状态在回忆中破损
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
因此这不能永恒停留的自负
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
在我眼前使你在青春中极其珍贵
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
在这儿挥霍的时间与腐败论辩
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
将你青春的白昼变成污黑的夜晚
   And all in war with Time for love of you,
   为着你的爱，万物与时间争战
   As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
   当他从你那取走，我就给你嫁枝添新。

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SONNET 112
莎士比亚十四行诗 112

Your love and pity doth th' impression fill
你的爱与怜将您的印象充满
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
当庸俗的诽谤印记在我眉脊上；
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
我又为何去理睬旁人品论我善恶，
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
因你把我的污迹涂青，德善肯定？
You are my all the world, and I must strive
你是我的一切，为此我总要奋斗
To know my shames and praises from your tongue:
去认识我的卑微和你口中的赞誉
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
我旁若无物，也不去管他人的存在
That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong.
只凭我钢铁的意志或只为着对错而更改
In so profound abysm I throw all care
在纵深的渊底我抛却所有顾虑
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
那些旁人的说道，还有我累计的敏感
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
对于吹毛求疵阿谀奉承者截止。
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:
记住我怎样籍著我的疏忽来安排：
   You are so strongly in my purpose bred
   你已经牢固的在我意志中诞生
   That all the world besides methinks y' are dead.
   就算这世界除我，都认为你已死去。

the following is a complete list of my favorite 14 Shakespeare Sonnets.

15, 18, 27, 29, 33, 50, 64, 65, 66, 73, 85, 91, 94, 112.

To Dream

To Dream

Sonnet 27 for Soccer

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,

The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;

But then begins a journey in my head

To work my mind, when body's work's expired: 

For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--

Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,

And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,

Looking on darkness which the blind do see:

Save that my soul's imaginary sight

Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,

Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,

Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.

   Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,

   For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.

Sonnet 62 for Soccer

2 Awesome Performance of Cui Jian's Band

2 Awesome Performance of Cui Jian's Band

1. Flower House Girl

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBDKL86rTA

2. Let Me Get Wild on the Snow

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZCEhSkpBUs

(Original Version played with Guzheng)

First song is a love song, second song is political song, But the music and guitar really cool.

and here's another cool guitar playing by Second Hand Rose Band, the leading guitarist Yao Lan uses his electric to mimic the vibration of guqin strings (btwn 1:13 - 1:30), very cool.

Story of Spring - by Second Hand Rose Rehearsal

Link: http://vimeo.com/6783230

Good Rock Riff Mix after 5:40

Omnipotent Youth Society - Kill the One from Shijiazhuang

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsAk8vLx1Vk&feature=related

Good Melancholic Melody

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kOBzIuKdI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLA20EFA203CB23EE9

Tang Dynasty Guitarist: Chen Lei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLK4HJoubck&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Moonlite in the Toilet

Moonlite in the Toilet

By Laijon Liu 20120309

There is an art in everything

there are poems in everyone

take healthy nutrient daily

give a lifetime exercise

then the moon shall glow

like egg yolk in the toilet

Mary’s Love Affair 不y Shen Haobo 沈浩波 （1976- ）

Mary’s Love Affair

By Shen Haobo 沈浩波 （1976- ）

She is a supervisor of my friend’s company

Her name is Mary; she is beautiful and attractive

Her mild perfume gives a comfortable fragrance

She graduated from a big name university

Her elegant stature and exquisite character

And her four-inch high heels

Raised her career status high above other women.

She is a workaholic, on the business dinner table

She can drink a thousand cups, even if she gets drunk

She walks to the bathroom and digs and vomits,

Then she returns to the table with same look,

She continues drinking until the competitors give up,

And the projects rolling in, and new contracts are signed.

I confess I do admire her.

One time, on dinner table I was a little drunk

And I said to her boss who is my friend:

You are so lucky; you’ve got a great employee

A beautiful girl helps you making a lot of money

My friend laughed and said: she is not only my employee,

She is also my secret lover behind her husband

Anytime I want to sleep her I can

Think about it, a beautiful girl

She works for me like an ass

She let me fuck her like a bitch

And she doesn’t even ask for too much raise

Isn’t it awesome?!

And I was dumbfounded, asked him how did he do that

My friend smiled with pride and said: simple!

You just tell her ‘you love her’ over and over again.

Note:

I got this from <<2010 Chinese Poetry Anthology>>. I like this poem, sharp and political. The poet simply retells a scene and conversation to reveal his current society, the business and political world, the moral ground people stand on… how the beautiful young Mary got screwed over and over again.

Autumn Thought By Shen Qi 沈奇 (1951- )

Autumn Thought

By Shen Qi 沈奇 (1951- )

You say: Make a good dream

Dream of a romantic flower

Dream of a sweet fruit

But I’ve already passed thru

That kind of season

No dreams, but I

Only think of you

Like a tree in autumn

Thinks of spring shower

You say: Then, just grow some new leaves

And my heart suddenly turned green

Untitled on Qingming By Ye Yanbin 叶延滨 (1948- )

Untitled on Qingming

By Ye Yanbin 叶延滨 (1948- )

Light a piece of incense

Because today is Ancestors Day

Burn a stack of brown paper

Because I came back

The cypress trees by the grave are taller

Me and my mom are parted for one more year

The name on the headstone is scraped off by rain

And once again I use a gold color pen to repaint it

The three familiar characters, but I call it mom instead!

Every year I come back here on this day

Because here is my mom’s grave

Silently I stare at my mom’s name

Together with these two cypress trees-

Ah, so many times my mom held me

And her hands carried me into this world!

But I only carried her once, ah, carried her here,

So she can rest between the cypress trees!

Because today is Ancestors Day-

And here, on this station of live to dead

I make this poem a train ticket!

Because today is Ancestors Day-

Quietly I close my eyes

And I see my mom,

And she opens her mouth and says:

“Child, today you are not an orphan.”

Note:

This poem I got from the <<2010 Chinese Poetry Anthology>>, I felt it and translated it here for sharing.

Qingming is Ancestors Day.

+ [Classical] + [English Pop] + [Mandarin Vocal] +
+ [Mou Ying's Selection] +

Sirens with Soothing Voice and Resting Melody

I love music and songs. I especially love soothing female vocal sings a resting melody and poetic lyric that reminds me the story in Homer’s Odyssey, Sirens (Fairies) singing on the island that lures sailors jump into the ocean and drown them in a peaceful death. And during my years of sailing I collected some songs that I love and listen everyday, these fairies some compose and some interpret, I really do love their talent and feel very blessed that they allow me immerse into their feeling and passion when I feel sad and lonely, and sometime I lay on the bed half dead resting to recover in their angelic healing voice. I bet there are so many great singers and songs I have not heard because I don't have enough time money energy to dig, however I must put down a list that I know for showing my gratitude. (Most songs can all be googled, found on youtube and purchased from Amazon) I am glad that the voice of goddess guides me to a musical viking voyage: waves, rock and winds, high pitch spirit and longing :D 
Eva Cassidy is my favorite girl.

Kelly Sweet – Dream On youtube amazon

Siobhan Owen - Black Is the Colour amazon youtube
Giorgia Fumanti - Your Love (Once Upon A Time In The West) amazon youtube
Giorgia Fumanti - Espiritu amazon youtube
Cecilia - Love of a Silent Moon amazon youtube

Grace Bawden - Flower Duet amazon youtube

The Broadway Cats - Memory amazon

Original London Cast - The Phantom Of The Opera amazon

Hazlitt - Introit amazon youtube

Hazlitt - Lux aeterna amazon

Immortal Aria - The Bleeding Rose amazon youtube

Sinéad O'Connor - House of the Rising Sun youtube amazon

Sinéad O'Connor – A Perfect Indian youtube amazon

Hayley Westenra – Prayer youtube amazon

Hayley Westenra – Scarborough Fair amazon youtube

Hayley Westenra - lascia ch'io pianga youtube amazon

Hayley Westenra – Ave Maria - Ave Maria amazon youtube

Celine Dion - Ave Maria amazon youtube

Eliza Lumley - Sweet Child O' Mine amazon

Grace Griffith - Shape Of My Heart youtube amazon

Sarah Mclachlan – Angel youtube amazon

Nana Mouskouri – Time In A Bottle youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves youtube amazon

Faryl Smith - Annie's Song amazon

Sasha Lazard - Carnival amazon
Sasha Lazard - Stabat Mater Ixxi amzon

Natasha Marsh - Gymnopedie No. 1 amazon

Natasha Marsh -  Si Un Jour youtube amazon
Natasha Marsh - Ai Giochi Addio youtube amzon 

Viktoria Tocca - Dark Waltz amazon

Pilippa Giordano - Habanera (From Carmen) amazon

Christy Baron - Ain't No Sunshine youtube

Amy Hanaialii - Have You Ever Seen The Rain? youtube amazon

Mary Duff - Take Me Home Country Roads youtube amazon

Barbra Streisand - Woman in love youtube amazon

Sarah K. - What's a Little More Rain? youtube amazon

Emi Fujita - Unchained Melody amazon

Selah – All My Tears (Be Washed Away) amazon
Selah - What Child Is This amazon

Selah - Holy Night amazon

Julie London - Cry Me A River amazon

Melody Gardot – Who Will Comfort Me youtube amazon

Suzzane Thomas – Rain and Snow amazon (Disc1 Track3)

Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust youtube amazon

Norah Jones - Don't Know Why youtube amazon

Imelda May – Knock 123 youtube amazon

Taylor Swift – Drops of Jupiter amazon

Susan Wong – Sound of Silence youtube

Jewel – Raven youtube amazon

Sissel - Hallowed Mountains youtube amazon

Sissel - molde canticle amazon youtube

Sissel - Dusk amazon

Sissel - O Mio Babbio Caro amazon youtube

Susan Boyle – Wild Horses youtube amazon

Affinit - Tango De Roxanne amazon

Trio Mediaeval - Rolandskvadet (The Song Of Roland) amazon youtube

All the Stars - The Wailin' Jennys youtube amazon

Sarah Brightman – Dust In The Wind youtube amazon

Sarah Brightman – Scarbro Fair youtube amazon

Nana Mouskouri – Besame Mucho youtube amazon

Nana Mouskouri - La Paloma youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy – Imagine youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy – Ain't No Sunshine amazon

Eva Cassidy – True Colors youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger youtube1 youtube2 amazon1 amazon2

Eva Cassidy – Bridge Over Troubled Water youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy – Yesterday youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy – Time After Time youtube amazon

Eva Cassidy – Kathy’s Song youtube amazon

Roxanna Riverso - Let it Be amazon

Mariette Davina - Angel Song amazon

Emma Shapplin - Nothing Wrong amazon 
Enya - Orinoco Flow amazon 
Enya - Caribbean Blue amazon
Enya - Only Time amazon

Sasha & Shawna - Sleepsong amazon

Tarja - Oasis amazon youtube

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren amazon youtube

Sinead Blanchfield - Granada amazon

Sinead Blanchfield - Hymn A Lamour amazon

Samantha Link - Bring Me to Life amazon

Mary-Jess - Glorious amazon youtube

Katherine Jenkins - I will always Love you amazon
Katherine Jenkins - Parla Più Piano - Love Theme From The Godfather amazon youtube
Katherine Jenkins - Hallelujah amazon 

Renee Fleming - Hallelujah amazon

Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (Whole CD) amazon

Charlotte Church - Pie Jesu From Requiem amazon
Charlotte Church - Dream A Dream church amazon
Jackie Evancho - Panis Angelicus amazon
Jackie Evancho - A Mother's Prayer amazon
Laura Wright - The Ash Grove amazon
Laura Wright - Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes amazon
Lisa Kelly - Now We are Free amazon
Hayley Westenra - Traditional Go To Sleep amazon

Alison Krauss - down to the river to pray amazon

Connie Fisher - Somewhere amazon

Sarah Niemietz – Stand By Me youtube amazon

Emi Fujita – Tears in Heaven youtube amazon

Selah – Bless The Broken Road youtube amazon

Melody Gardot – Your Heart Is As Black As Night youtube amazon

Melody Gardot – Our Love Is Easy youtube amazon

Norah Jones - Come Rain Or Come Shine youtube amazon

Norah Jones – Jolene (Live Cover on youtube) youtube

Adele - Someone Like You youtube amazon
Tracey Kent - Hushabye Mountain youtube amazon
Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven youtube amazon
First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining (acoustic) youtube

Cat Power - Metal Heart youtube amazon

Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction youtube amazon
Lissie - Nothing Else Matters amazon

CHINESE SIRENS WITH SOOTHING VOICE AND RESTING MELODY

There are also some Chinese folk and poetry singers that are equal to the above English Singing Sirens. So the following list of a few songs for people who lust some good vocal. My choice of standard is, soothing voice, good melody, and poetic lyric. No propaganda song.

Link to 50 Best Mandarin Songs (Chinese HiFi Vocal Singers) 国语美声50首