“From the Earth Below” was inspired by a Shinto poem:
“With the unseen God who seeth all secret things in silence, the heart of the man sincere communes from the earth below.” The song was performed at the opening ceremony for Aomori Prefecture’s concert hall complex designed by our friend, the architect Shizuo Harada. The Ceremony was filmed and its debut was televised on NHK, Japanese national television.
Fordham Wilkes are:
Ginny Fordham – vocals and acoustic guitar
Steve Wilkes – acoustic and electronic percussion
We’re two people who have been writing songs together for almost 19 years. Our initial musical idea was a “vocal/electronic percussion duo.” (That’s still pretty rare, even today.) That idea has somehow managed to remain as the foundation of what we do. Songs are born in many ways, but that singular duo idea has certainly spawned a few. Compositions like “The Open Door” (from our days as dr. carrot), “From the Earth Below (from the first FW CD), and “People in the Sun” (title track from our new CD), were created from such an instrumentation.
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