Epic III but it's performed in a cathedral
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- Опубліковано 22 бер 2019
- Epic III from Hadestown, put through a cathedral filter.
Fun fact: this took for-friggin' ever (read: several months on and off), and I decided to get it done tonight just 'cause I had 2 or three panels left to make and it was the night of Hadestown's first Broadway preview, so technically this is in celebration of their Broadway move. It's a gift to all cast and crew of Hadestown, past and present.
I ended up finishing at around 3 AM because the way I make these is panel-by-panel. Every time you see a change in the image, that's a completely new picture, and I had to re-insert all of them with my watermark added on because this looks like a work worth stealing and sharing on Insta or something, and the way I layered one of the transitions and faded to white in the middle meant I couldn't just slap a transparent PNG of my signature without it looking weird and flickering oddly. Me being the absolute banal perfectionist I am, I did it the hard way so it wouldn't do that. iMovie sucks, you guys.
This project was made very specially 'cause this felt like a very special song, and it’s also the song where I found out how to apply the reverb without muddying the audio, so I’m probably gonna remake some old ones. I'm very quickly falling down the slippery Hadestown slope. This is five minutes long and worth 11 references, 31 panels, 16 layer groups, over 200 layers total, and way too many hours.
I hope you enjoy!
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Hey, I have no idea why this started blowing up all of a sudden, but to everyone: thank you so much!
This took months of on-and-off work and I struggled real hard against my ADD to get this finished, so I’m glad to not only see it pay off, but to see it strike such a chord with everyone. The number one goal I have with my art is to make people feel-especially with this one. I wanted to make people feel what I felt when I first listened, when I made this. I’m glad it’s working. It’s incredibly validating.
I want you all to know that I see every comment. Your praise is so shocking and sweet and I love you. 💛👋
Oh, and, uh-there’s a possibility I may be planning another one of these. something a lil bigger?
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It’s really well done!
The youtube algorithm finally did something right again, this is Lovely.
It's cause after the tonys everyone was like OH SHIT I SHOULD CHECK THAY OUT
@@IneffablyBisexual Hadestown is finally getting the attention it deserves. Thanks for this!
*and SUDDENLY,*
*HADES*
*w a s o n l y a m a n,*
that's when your heart fucking flips
Why does this have so many likes
Lucy l the fact that the reply rhymes with the next line makes me question life-
Bruh that Suddenly hits different
*with a taste of*
*N E C T A R*
*upon his LIPS*
Fun fact: many medieval occultists believed that harmony was close to godliness. Which is why a ton of old churches have good acoustics
Makes sense. I feel like I’m literally ascending when the harmony hits JUST right
That, and so that the sermons can carry to every corner and everyone can hear.
you ever hear and see a song so beautiful you feel your heart stir
You ever hear and see a song so beautiful you feel your heart?
Hey that's what hades thought
I would be worried if you, ya know-couldn’t- feel your heart
@@hyphontypool5526 Itadori Yuuji has entered the chat.
Hades asked Orpheus “Make me laugh, make me cry, make the King feel young again!”
And so Orpheus did.
Now, THIS is what happens when imagining "what song could be so beautiful and powerful as to sway the heart of the Lord of the Dead himself?"
Right? I was listening to this last night and it just amazed me that somehow, this song that has been built up through the whole musical as a song that could change the world actually lives up to that high level of expectation. I've never heard another song like it.
and then they went and RUINED it
@@maicey_t.IKR!!! I’d seen RENT before this so honestly my expectations for “yet-written song that’s been hyped up the entire show” were very low… and then i heard this and was blown out of the water. And every time I hear it I believe again that it could make Hades change his mind
“SEe how he lABOOoOoOoRs”
My forwarding address is now Hadestown, because I am *Dead.*
when u have one sentence to audition for oklahoma
Legend has it Damon Daunno was cut from the cast because his vibrato could take out an entire audience
No matter how good the OBC is, I don't think any remake of this song could ever top this original. The echeos of everyone's voices when the instruments drop out... incredibly moving.
is the original on Spotify?
Alyssa Rahardja yes it is!!
Sheikah Chick YES EXACTLY
I feel like the original better captures how the song is supposed to be this epic poem as well as a love song. It really gives me vibes that this is something with ancient and deep roots, but the OBC simply turned it into more of a love song and simplified it a whole lot more.
This is not the original version.
The thing that gets me most is that the melody Orpheus sings is heavily implied to be a song of love. The feeling of love, not just the words. And Hadestown is barren, cold, and (as implied in the Broadway version of Way Down Hadestown II I believe) nobody remembers their name, home or loved ones. But as everybody joins in with Orpheus, you realise that nobody has forgotten love.
Or Orpheus' musical skill reawakens that which the lethe could not steal from them. Honestly Orpheus was close to destroying the underworld.
I'd kill to hear Hozier sing a version of this
now,,, you’re onto something
He's a baritone, he'd have trouble doing that. This is tenor/countertenor territory, so he'd probably do this in a lower key.
But yeah he'd do great.
just came here from “From Eden,” honestly same.
Dude this song in barriton tho 😍🥹
@@cybersearcher1041 this song isn't for baritones at all lmao
I think that this version has a lot more soul and emotion than the version on broadway. Not to say the other one isn't good, but it tells a story more than anything - which was probably what they were going for. It's just that this one really conveys raw emotion and it's more believable that Hades is moved by it.
The Broadway one feels like a performance, because it is. Hades wanted Orpheus to sing him a song, and that's what was given.
but in this version, Orpheus tells him a story
My one major complaint about the Broadway version of Hadestown is how they absolutely destroyed this song in the rewrite. (I understand thematically why it was changed and why they rewrote it when the focus shifted more to how Hades’ actions affected the world.) When I often get to this point in the Broadway soundtrack, I often listen to this version instead. There’s so much more heart. Hades is only a man just as Orpheus, who’s in love with a woman he’d do anything for. They’re perfect foils of each other. And aaaaa, I just am so sad this version didn’t make it to Broadway.
@@coffin_qt I'll never get over the clunky use of the word "lady" instead of woman in the Broadway version. Such a shame because this was my dark horse favorite song from this version of the musical.
miracumoose this and “if it’s true” were absolutely slaughtered but broadway gave us comrade Orpheus so I can’t complain TOO much 😔
lycoris Epic III walked in the rewrite so Wait for Me could run. 😔👊
Why aren’t more people talking about that absolutely stunning “and suddenly Hades was only man” like damn 1:53
YESS
Damon Daunno has the voice of a demigod son of Apollo. His voice just makes my heart go 🥺
Always
and sUUUUUUDDENLY HADES
Lol, I got chills from *READING* this
Bard casts friends at 9th level...
Natural 20! Critical Success...
Friends is a Cantrip!
This is more like Charm Monster ;)
DCdabest Oh! My bad, lol. Wouldn’t this be charm person though? I’m pretty sure you can do that at higher levels, though that obviously does nothing to DC, it just sounds better to say the highest level lol
The SaDe Hades is either a celestial or a fiend. But I don't think gods would have the humanoid creature type, so Charm Person wouldn't work on him?
Da Scientist Welll, gods don’t really have a statblock anyways (in 5e at least) so this whole thing was kind of not realistic from the beginning. ^^. Though as a DM I would rule it wouldn’t work because gods can just be immune to charm effects.
My favorite part is when Hades sings "lalala" like he's just starting to remember and is afraid to messed it up.
the magic of his voice during “but even that hardest of hearts unhardened” cleared my skin and watered my crops and it’s the most beautifully anyone has ever sang anything. this video is so pretty and ethereal and chilling and i feel like i’m looking at an old wordless picture book telling the story of a forgotten love song.
YES!! This and when he says Persephone’s name. I just- UGH- he says it so beautifully!! 💖💖💖
For me it's the "What has become of the heart of that man... now that the man is king? What has become of the heart of that man... now that he has everything?".
That "now" is what I need to resurrect in case I die.
*The man was too stunned to speak.*
If they are ever to turn Hadestown into a movie, I want it to be animated. And I hope it’s animated like this.
Animation would be better and give the musical justice but at the same time they would probably make the characters more white which would take away some of the soul of the music.
@@mebii3830 bold of you to assume they wouldn't also hire white actors if it was live action lol
@@hibiscuspetals02 True. Lol
Just noticed how the emphasis on the k sounds in "he keeps his head low and he keeps his back bending" echoes the working chant
I listened to the “and suddenly hades was only a man” part like 6 times and showed my dad i love this so much
Ikr it's incredible
“And suddenly, he saw her there-Persephone, in her mother’s garden. The sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair…”
One of the most beautiful parts of this play. They don’t have it in the Broadway version, right? A shame because it’s so powerful, especially how he sang it. I could vividly imagine a beautiful lady in a flower field, glowing in the sunlight.
woah, this is both visually and audibly *_stunning_*
i especially loved the part where orpheus is singing “la lala la la la la” and it slowly gets brighter, almost like his love and hope for eurydice is spreading and it’s just.. so beautiful.
i always knew the lyrics to this song were beautiful and powerful, but listening to it with your art and the sound edit just took it to a whole new level, my heart is aching
just. wow, this is incredible
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This version of Epic III has always hit the hardest and this cathedral edit makes the chorus feel like it did the first time I discovered this song, and that is the highest of compliments
*_LYRICS_*
_[ORPHEUS]_
Heavy and hard is the heart of the king
King of iron, king of steel
The heart of the king loves everything
Like the hammer loves the nail
But the heart of a man is a simple one
Small and soft, flesh and blood
And all that it loves is a woman
A woman is all that it loves
And Hades is King of the scythe and the sword
He covers the world in the color of rust
He scrapes the sky and scars the earth
And he comes down heavy and hard on us
But even that hardest of hearts unhardened
Suddenly, when he saw her there
Persephone in her mother’s garden
Sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair
The smell of the flowers she held in her hand
And the pollen that fell from her fingertips
And suddenly Hades was only a man
With a taste of nectar upon his lips, singing:
La la la la la la la…
_[COMPANY]_
La la la la la la la…
_[ORPHEUS]_
And what has become of the heart of that man,
Now that the man is King?
What has become of the heart of that man,
Now that he has everything?
The more he has, the more he holds,
The greater the weight of the world on his shoulders
See how he labors beneath that load
Afraid to look up, and afraid to let go
And he keeps his head low, and he keeps his back bending
He grows so afraid that he'll lose what he owns
But what he doesn't know is that what he's defending
Is already gone
Where is the treasure inside your chest?
Where is your pleasure? Where is your youth?
Where is the man with his hat in his hands?
Who stands in the garden with nothing to lose, singing:
La la la la la la la…
_[HADES]_
La la la la la la la…
_[ORPHEUS]_
La la la la la la la…
_[BOTH]_
La la la la la la la…
Thank you
B
u forgot the 182,373,632,452 "la"s
Thank you
Thank you
[Song ends]
GOTTA THINK QUICK
GOTTA SAVE FACE
The one thing I hated so much about the album!! 😂😂😂
CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Whatcha gonna do whatcha gonna do WHATCHA GONNA DO NOW?
Hadestown: [angsty moment]
The Fates: nOW HOLD IT RIGHT THERE-
@@thatonedmguy1586 If you tell em noooo- OOOH you´re a HEARTLESS man
and you're gonna have a martyr on your hands!
The way he sings “he comes down heavy and hard on us” is so much emotion like just take my money. Take it
i come back to this video all the time. i don't think anything will ever beat this version of the song and i would love to hear the broadway orpheuses sing it, but alas. there's also something really special about the characterisation of orpheus in the nytw version, idek what it is, he seems so raw and real and he has that kind of spark to him that i think has gone away a bit. the broadway version is beautiful but i do think he's a different character, and this song became a different song, too.
I love the broadway version just as much as the original, but NOTHING can top Damon Daunno's angelic voice.
Around the end, this becomes a song about fleeting youth and I've never related so hard. "What he's defending..... It's already gone." I'm actually crying.
It’s awesome because it sounds like he’s performing in Hades’ throne room. And when everyone joins in during “la la la la la la la” gives me chills every time. You’re breathtaking 👌
I swear his La's are actually hypnotizing. No, literally, not figuratively. Should I be worried?
amazing that even in a musical that hades is the main villain/antagonist his most basic personality trait is: I just love my wife so fucking much
YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS WAS AN ANIMATIC AND I DIDNT KNOW THIS WHOLE TIME BECAUSE I WOULD JUST LISTEN TO IT INSTEAD OF WATCHING!?!?!
"The sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair... the smell of the flowers she held in her hand and the pollen that fell from her fingertips. AND SUDDEEENNLYY HADES WAS ONLY A MAN" I- WHY DID THEY REMOVE THIS VERSION?!?!!
I'll admit I just expected a cathedral sound edit but goodness me. SURPRISE IT MOVES AND IT'S GONNA MAKE YOU CRY. I always get so emotional about Epic III but this was stunning. I got chills all over again as the screen lit up more and more. It was so beautiful how that gold light just started to spread. And when Hades looked around at everyone joining in. I got misty-eyed in the end and that hasn't happened for Hadestown since maybe the sixth relisten. So overall this was lovely, and thank you.
holy shit i came here expecting to just get an edit, but, like the amount of work you've put into this is amazing! the visuals are beautiful, and when the screen overflows with light along with the music!! brilliant, showstopping, lifechanging, wow
Cai Grace Thank you!! honestly i went into this project just expecting an edit and a few pictures too-i knew next to nothing about hadestown when i made this, except for the myth and that Amber Gray and Rachel Chavkin were working in it. but the visuals i was getting as i listened were just. too beautiful not to include. and i still have animatic ideas. it’s a testament to anaïs’ skill as a songwriter really, haha 💛💛💛
My hamster has unlimited energy and can escape anything, we’ve started keeping a hammer on her cage because she’ll throw off the lid otherwise, sat perfectly still listening to this. When different parts came in she would look around trying to find where the voices were coming from. She has sat still for the longest amount of time I’ve ever seen now. I guess everyone in this house just loves this song.
Woah, that's so cool!
That's some peculiar hamster
I agree
Sometimes I forget exactly how beautiful this musical is
the obcr did this entire album so dirty, but the way this song was basically completely rewritten is its biggest crime. so so beautiful and I wish it was kept this way for broadway :'/
this pains every day of my life
It bothers me how watered down the Broadway version is
Didn't even notice the images at first so cool
Persephones tired, happy expression near the end is so good
i love the broadway version, but man- THIS VERSION SLAPS WAY HARDER
talented brilliant incredible amazing spectacular showstopping totally unique completely not ever been done before unafraid to reference or not reference--
Dear UA-cam,
Can you help me find the "love" button for a video? Or perhaps the "utterly adore" button? There's a certain cathedral edit that definitely deserves it.
Your profile picture reminded me, that I used that one as a cover image for a completely unrelated song, but now I want to relisten to that song again, because it filled me with such a good feeling, and I wanna relisten to the whole album from which that song came, just-
Thank you for reminding me of a thing I loved. :)
@@imthecoolestguyalive Hey you're welcome! Bukowski is one of my favorites :-)
I came from Tumblr and I haven't left in a FAT minute
This has 0 dislikes because even the King of Hell loves it.
Sadly now it has 8
@@wormwood8903 those are the jealous people that couldnt make this
This aged well
Well now there's no dislike button
Fun fact : hades didn’t really care about eurydice . He had nothing to do with her . When eurydice died , she actually died by a poisonous snake . And like every other soul she went to the underworld. When people think about the underworld where hades is , they think fire and souls . But actually there are 3 places in the underworld . First is where bad bad people are (torture) ,2nd is where the not to bad and not to good people go (regular people) and the last is basically a place which is like heaven .place is Beautiful and only good people can go . When Orpheus found out he went to Zeus and Zeus said he couldn’t do anything bout gave him a chance to talk to hades . He sent Hermès with him and both went to the underworld . When meeting hades , persephone was next to him . And orpheus sang a song that even made hades one of the three gods cry silver . orpheus was known to have a better voice then his father god of music . When hades gave them the test and they failed . Orpheus had never been in any other relationship. He would sing sad songs over and over again . He would also sing songs of other gods story’s . When three girls were mad they couldn’t have orpheus , they snuck at night and killed him . And now he’s in the underworld where eurydice is
In the actual play theres a moment at the beginning where Hades is like "oh its a song about me!" And its the cutest thing and takes the edge off the tension beautifully
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nobody talks about hermes backup solo during the la’s but it’s what makes the song so good
Everything about this is *beautiful* and amazing. This song fits the cathedral effect like no other, and every single frame of artwork is gorgeous and detailed. I especially like the “halo” around Orpheus as he sings “la-lalalalala!”
The combination of Damon Daunno's beautiful vocals with the acoustics of a cathedral is something so full of transcendent beauty that it's enough to make one's entire soul stir with feelings that words cannot begin to express. Thanks for all the effort you put into this. It amplifies the music with so much more elegance and grace. I can't say enough positive things about it!
Man I have to watch this video a lot to both remind myself how perfect Damon Duanno is as Orpheus and to bask in the cathedral edit beauty like hot damn
These cathedral edits are the most beautiful thing I’ve heard in a long time, add hadestown to it and you have me sobbing. Your art is absolutely gorgeous as well. ❤️
I know everyone is in love with Orpheus in this song but can we!! Talk about Hermes' vocals in the background!!? I love it so much!!
Those garden scenes are so beautiful and detailed!! I wish I had your talent
thank you, but it ain't talent, just lots of work and reference! i'd already had some experience w/ painting and i used Over the Garden Wall backgrounds to figure out how to draw the nature stuff
This is very well done. And the image of Hades so huge and sitting on a throne reminds me of the first version of the Orpheus story I ever read, which was the one in the Sandman comics.
this version makes me feel things inside, I legit start crying... it's so beautiful
Every beat in the first 30 seconds, gave me shivers down my spine, god this song is beautiful, especially like this
This is still absolutely gorgeous, coming back several years later
Every time the light floods the screen sound the halfway point, it gets really hard to breathe. A little scary... but beautiful.
The art in this really drove it home beautiful
Man this shit tears my UP-
you know a song is good when you get chills
This was the last thing i watched before my ap english exam to ease my anxiety
I don't know what it is, but this made me adore the key of Eb minor. It's so etherial and enchanting and so mystical, like you're singing with these fairies or ghosts and you feel warm and loved inside. This is beautiful. Thanks.
This is so beautiful idk know what words to use
I love Damon Daunno
i’ve been realistening to hadestown and just found this and i !!!! sobbing rn this is stunning with the visuals
The art is what I had in mind when playing the musical in my head! The glow, the feelings conveyed and just the 'feel' of this build up!
I like both this and the Broadway version of the song for different reasons. (I like this one more but both are really good.) In this version, there's so much emotion, and I love how the melody shifts over the song. In the other song, it doesn't do that as much and there's less emotion, but it does seem more like Orpheus didn't have the song finished completely and just winged it because he was desperate. I don't know if this is intentional, but I do think it's a little more realistic because before Orpheus went after Eurydice he still didn't have it finished.
Edit edit: also I was extremely fortunate to be able to see the touring production of it recently and ngl the Broadway version of epic iii was a jump scare after watching this video so much lmaoo
it's not realistic because Orpheus was the fabled to be the best poet and singer the world has ever known, causing even death to weep. but Broadway just made him a bumbling dullard
@@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945 I mean they never said being the best meant he could write that in a single moment, like I think it humanizes him to have him struggle on the song. He'd be much less compelling if he just woke up and immediately brought back spring with a song
i miss this hadestown
this video will be played at my wedding baby shower and funeral
Hey, I wanted you to know that this videi is the reason this is one of my all-time favourite songs ever. This video made me enjoy everything and to its full capacity, thank you.
I've been a huge fan of hadestown for the last year and I've never seen this much beauty in a version of this song until I saw this video. Thank you.
thank you thank you THANK YOU for introducing me to this version of epic iii. i thought carney’s was the best version, but this THIS LANDS A WHOLE LOT BETTER WITH ME IN ITS ENTIRETY. now don’t get me wrong: i love reeve, he does orpheus so excellently, but there’s just this tenderness and vulnerability in damon daunno’s voice that just procures him the title of Modern Orpheus, bestowed by yours truly. and thank you very much for amplifying this magical experience through your stellar art as always!
i cry every time i watch this. seriously, it’s beautiful in every way. i mean, hadestown already makes me weak in the knees, but this is quite literally
poetry in motion and it gives me so many good feelings at once. I love this video.
Jaaliyah Rios god. ive been ruminating on this for the past 2 days unsure how to respond, and i gotta say this is very... touching of you to say, considering especially that i struggle w/ insecurity abt how well my work communicates the same emotions that drove me to make it, so... thank you, very very much 💛
I’m a proud lesbian, but when Orpheus said “hades was only a man” I went: 🤰🤰🤰
The way he says Persephone KILLS me
1:32 if anyone's wondering
Not only is the sound edit stunning, but the art that goes along with it, really captures the emotion and visuals in this song. I got really teary eye, especially the part where everything is white and it's Orpheus singing about what Hades is now. It's just so breath taking, and raw.
You did amazing, absolutely amazing.
this song feels like it should be listened to on a record player lying flat on your back between two speakers feeling the vibrations through the floor
I came here for a fun echo edit of a beautiful song and I got TEARS (the good emotional kind)
Oh, my Gods. This is fucking amazing.
This is the quality I aspire to have in my own animatics/animations. Huge, huge kudos to you for making this song even better with your art. (And I can tell that the cathedral edit of the song must've been quite hard to perfect) If I wasn't so controlling over my tear ducts, I'd be sobbing right now. You deserve so many more views and subscribers, friend.
*Who disliked?*
_you can catch my hands_
*i just wanna talk*
I swear right now my whole body is covered in shivers and I can barely breath
And when Hades joins in the lalala, it was just too much
chills chills chills oh my god
I like the pre Broadway version better already so I’m biased but THIS????? THIS is amazing
Its a misty night, the faint outlines of trees barely visible. The stillness, and the chill that creeps up my spine made me feel wistful. I layed my head on my window sill and listened to this, and welcomed the crisp bitter breeze. A winter night made indescribably beautiful. Thank you
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. I saw the show last December and I would have bawled my eyes out even more if they kept this version.
I've always loved your cathedral edits, but the art on this is fantastic! I love the way you depicted the 'La La La' part, with a glow getting brighter until it consumes everything (It reminded me of the chandelier in Great Comet). And the end was just so beautiful and sweet. Thank you for all your hard work!
Okay, but this is actually one of the best “cathedral” edits I’ve heard in a while?? Usually it’s just a cacophonous mess, but this is so easy to listen to! Nice job.
Can I hire that druid?
IM MAKING MYSELF PISS I LOVE IT
This genuinely made me break down weeping. I love this song so much, and the visuals and extra reverberations just made me cry from the beauty of it. Thank you.
hades: give me a song before i kill u lol
orpheus: roasts the fuck out of hades
hades:... ok u can go
this is the best audio version available on youtube. I've checked them all
You know, I've been watching this more than once now and I'm sobbing watching this at 2 am. This is just so wonderful
this gives me sleeping at last vibes
thank you for this
YES THANK YOU!! I was trying to figure out why I liked this song so much(well I like all of Hadestown’s songs) and then I saw this comment!
wow, I don’t care how amazing and lovely the broadway version is, this original soundtrack will always be my favourite
okay i’m back and this is HANDS DOWN so beautiful bro why am i crying in the club
god bless this edit
Dude, who gave you the right to make me cry like this??