Maria João | OGRE electric - "Look In Thy Glass"

1st single from our album "Songs for Shakespeare!" 🥳🎉 https://orcd.co/lookinthyglass Songs for Shakespeare is out now! 🎉🥳 https://orcd.co/songsforshakespeare "Look In Thy Glass" William Shakespeare - Sonnet #3 A dramatic melody hovers over an orchestrated head-nod groove and takes us on a theatrical journey through the verses of this sonnet. Bubbling synthesizers, determined drums and enveloping strings make, together with a swarm of samples, the bed for an inspired interpretation by the world acclaimed singer Maria João, starting right away with a powerful a Capella introduction to one of the most famous scenes from "Merchant of Venice". Follow Maria João: Facebook: facebook.com/mariajoaomgrancha Instagram: instagram.com/mariajoaomusic Website: mariajoao.org Contact: mariajoao.org/contact Listen to Maria João: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0jgkY... LYRICS: Look In Thy Glass (intro) "Merchant of Venice" Act III, Scene I - Shylock music: Maria João text: William Shakespeare If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? Look In Thy Glass "Sonnet #3" music: João Farinha text: William Shakespeare Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime: So thou through windows of thine age shall see Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time. But if thou live, remember’d not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee. CREDITS: OGRE electric: Maria João - vocals João Farinha - keyboards / synthesizers André Nascimento - laptop / electronics Silvan Strauss - drums ensemble arrangements: Sara Ross ensemble: Clara Saleiro - flute Pedro Moreira - oboe Hugo Azenha - clarinet Rodrigo Carreira - french horn Ana Pereira - violin I Ana Filipa Serrão - violin II Joana Cipriano - viola Ana Cláudia Serrão - cello Margarida Afonso - double bass Production and Music Production: João Farinha Ensemble recordings: Suse Ribeiro @ Estúdio Vale de Lobos Vocal and instrumental recordings: João Farinha @ Aurora Studios, Lisboa Drum recordings: Silvan Strauss @ Zwischengeschoss, Hamburg Recording Production: Süse Ribeiro Mixing: Süse Ribeiro & Nelson Carvalho Mastering: Nelson Carvalho Photography: Alexandre Cabrita Makeup artist: Zakahia Artwork: Jonas Grancha