Original music by Joe Hisaishi, Theme song of Howl's Moving Castle Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli film. The special kalimba has whole note, 30 keys. ★My Aliexpress store (kalimba): aprilyang.aliexpress.com/stor... ★Instagram aprilyangxd
I’m just realizing that this song is a waltz and that’s perfect. It just makes me think of two people dancing happily through the ups and downs of their lives
@@anneagostinelli that’s funny, I actually looked for this song on kalimba because it was the song for my brother’s wedding when they walked down the aisle. We’re all huge anime nerds in my family lol
ok but imagine this.. it's a sunny, warm, windy day - and your sat in the middle of a flower field. the grass is waving, the tops of the trees are dancing, and you hear this
It’s funny people mention feeling nostalgic for memories they’ve never had, or homesickness for a home that doesn’t exist. Ghibli’s films often revolve around the interconnection between our world and the spiritual world. The music makes us, as viewers, more immersed in the content of the film. But where there is no film and just music, we get these crazy indescribable feelings. Maybe music is a partial insight into what lies beyond this world and is why we feel so strongly when we hear these songs
I mean, while listening through, it sounds almost like an epic journey, like, Homer-style. But, what I find interesting is that I find myself hearing old folk songs laced into, giving it these distant home vibes that are hard to get from something new. The music itself is trying to find it's way back home.
@@iu117 Just listen in and every once in a while you'll hear the old folk song Greensleeves start to play. Once you hear that, you won't stop hearing it, and then you can slowly hear all the other themes
For me, it's really make me feel depressed. This song really brings back some terrible memories when I late to confess my feeling to her, but I'm happy seeing her happy with her boyfriend now...
a poem based on the song: a field with flowers of stardust and sea, she picked one with the most delicate of tugs, and her lips turned upward lost and found in magic. eyes green as seafoam she looked at me and extended her hand. I enveloped her in a hug of stolen light. the sky darkened and opened up, as we danced together in tranquility, to the music of the sky shedding its tears. and by the time it stopped crying, I disappeared into the sweet light of dawn. until tomorrow, my love.
AMAZING!! Just what I needed to start my day off, a lovely poem with a cliffhanger. This will keep me in thoughts throughout the day if what happens next. Thanks so much for this comment have yourself a good day or night.
hiraeth, a welsh word. though it doesn’t have an exact translation, people often describe it as the word of “longing” or “homesickness.” hiraeth goes deeper than just “longning.” it refers to yearning for something that doesn’t exist.
doesn't this word imply "homesickness for a country not colonized by the british"? i hate to spoil the fun, but bringing it up like this feels inappropriate if i'm correct.
I'm really digging this song! I just bought a kalimba. This is world's away from where I could ever try and be lol. Recommend Into The Wilds soundtrack by Eddie vedder. Awesome book and movie, his soundtrack knocked it out if the park.
When I listen to this cover of this song, I feel like I belong somewhere else. Like a carnival surrounded by crowds and crowds of happy and peaceful people. I feel like I belong as a clown or happy attendee, running and laughing, going on the rides like a merry go round. The carnival is peaceful. There aren’t super modern rides, just old fashioned carnival games and rides, throw the ball in the clowns mouth, shooting games, all that sort of stuff. The sky is a light blue, red, orange and pink creeping up from the horizon. The sun setting and everyone continuing to play. It shifts into a ballroom, everyone dancing and making memories. The last thing I hear before coming back to where I am as of writing this. “Welcome home, we missed you.”
I miss how things used to be. My old class and my friendships that I've spend years to hold together, it all disappears right in front of me. It takes years to make something beautiful but a few seconds for everything to come crumbling down. I forgot I had these emotions, for some reason, this made me just silently cry while remembering the good times we had together. Nothing will ever be the same and I'll never find anyone as real as you. Such nostalgia
@@user-yt7zg4yl5m True but at the same time he’s insufferable isn’t he? Like, such a dramatic, whiny bitch. But there’s no one who can be more entertainingly dramatic
While everyone feels homesick, I always feel the urge to paint or draw instead as I listen to this song. When I listen to this while painting, I feel like I'm my own painting myself. That I am the colour that soaks the paper beautifully. It's strange, but it's beautiful; to be one with art.
@@v3xdraws I was wondering what you were talking because at the very beginning it didn't sound creepy at all to me but the more I listened to it yeah it does sound creepy this cover put in my mind Melanie Martinez and that episode of cowboy bebop where spike is fighting that crazy dude (can't remember his name) at a carnival I think
look up "howls moving castle" on youtube. Somebody posted the whole movie to watch for free. And the movies emotions are "don't be sad because its over, be glad because it happened"
I watched it.... the film is gorgeous. It’s so whimsical and heartwarming. I’ll never be over how well animated the cooking, walking on air, and howl’s crow monster fight sequences are.
This theme gives me feelings of longing, wistfulness but joy as well. It marks the end of one chapter, but a beginning of another at once, and the feelings of sadness and happiness that come along with it. But it also feels youthful, adventurous, and playful. In this song I am taken out of the comfort of my normal life, and swept into a fantasy one filled with things no one could ever imagine. It is a whirlwind, it is curiously amusing, and I love it.
This makes me so sad because i miss somewhere that doesn’t exist. I genuinely believe this music taps into past life memories of another world where this magical reality exists. But because it’s a past life we don’t know what we’re remembering, it doesn’t make sense so we feel sad
Soph same. My heart feels like it's yearning for something but I don't know what. I don't feel like I'm where I am is my final destination if you understand kinda..
@@Moonmoonsz shiit, never thought about the "former life and magical reality" stuff until now. Cuz when I think about it, that would explain a lot. And what you said about this not being the final destination, I felt that too. But like, man wth do we do with these emotions??
I can't hear Merry go round without remembering again and again that one scene of Sophie and Howls walking in the air, it feels so nostalgic and happy...
I’m going to take this opportunity to recommend everyone go and read the book “Howls moving castle” written by Diana Wynne Jones, it’s very different from the movie but it’s fantastic and I cannot recommend it enough!
Какая мелодия.... Задушевная. Тепло разливается по телу, когда ее слушаю. Она есть во всех душевных русских фильмах о семейном счастье со всеми ее невзгодами. А этот инструмент... Это моя мечта. Звук волшебный. Видео замечательое. Снято качестве но. И смотреть и слушать приятно. Спасибо за то что Вы делаете!
This song makes me feel multiple emotions. I can really imagine and feel myself being in the flower fields in Howl’s Moving Castle. I can really see my self from a bird’s eye view that I’m strolling through the flower fields in the wind. Although, that nice feeling also feels sad. Sad because I know I will never actually experience that feeling.
@@KM-gj7bj not necessarily true. I do believe that each time we die, we are reborn as someone or something else. But our soul is exactly the same. That is why, from time to time, we get flashbacks of our past lives.
This makes me feel like I am in the wrong place. Like I should be somewhere else... Somewhere where I can finally be in peace. One day, I hope I can go to that place.. and be the person I have always dreamt of being.
this song has always made me feel like i'm waltzing in a field of flowers, hence making it my favorite ghibli soundtrack of all time. crazy how much more magical it sounds on a kalimba
Just hearing this, as an ex ballerina, makes me want to go and put on my pointe shoes that I haven’t worn in months. Just dancing to this with bare feet brings back the old feeling of being a delicate, music box doll on stage. It makes me sad, but grateful at the same time :,)
there are many songs that make me feel indescribable feelings. this one in particular is as such. i cannot point a finger on what i feel with this song other than a longing for such that doesn’t exist. i feel this describes my style of writing perfectly.
I played this song on my kalimba next to my dog who would always doze off. This song reminds me of him now and our days together. His days with me were short but he lived like a prince. We have so many simple, happy memories together. I’m heartbroken he’s gone now, but I’m so relieved he’s not suffering anymore. May he rest in peace.
This song reminds me of my dog who passed away a few months ago he was always cheerful and happy no matter what happened to him everytime he ran away he always came back this song expresses how he was he was amazing and always calm and i built many great memories with him
I dont know why but whenever I'm hearing this song, I just feel at ease and makes my heart calm. Like this is a song you'll always play when you're just there outsiders your house overlooking the beautiful and different flowers as your scenery while embracing the afternoon sun
This song makes me want to cry so much. I just love the movie, It’s my favorite movie ever! I feel so nostalgic and it makes me feel many emotions. One of the most heartwarming and wholesome movie ever. Such beautiful music. ❤
waltz will always be one of my favorite genres, its beautiful, something that feels new each time, it makes you feel full, and fills that empty part of you, even if for a moment.
honestly, reading peoples own interpretations of this song is my favorite thing in the world. everyones interpretations are equally unique and special to them as individuals, which truly makes me believe in the beauty and power of this piece of music. really, this song is beautiful it might make me cry. if anyone was curious, personally, if I had to describe this song as one thing, it would be the feeling of Love. And no, im not talking about the image of ball dancing with a special someone (that would be amazing though), im talking about the image of being alone in a special place. lost in the middle of a vast flower field or grassy plain with nothing near me but the sky and myself. that image, to me at least, is what Love feels like. to feel at home and somewhat whimsical at the same time as you stare endless horizons of clouds, grass and flowers as far as the eye can see. to me, thats what this song feels like.
I feel almost the same. Having a endless grassy field to run in forever and do whatever you feel like whenever you want to. I feel a sense of loneliness aswell as if someone is missing like my best friend but a special someone (if you know what I mean) doesn't feel right either for some reason. I'm a musician so if I could also have all the instruments in the world to practice and learn forever, that to me... would be my special place to stay forever. I hope that this dream could come true for my one day and I can find the missing someone in the incomplete painting soon.
To reference a sort of feeling I had. The Yuri on Ice Ost (from YOI) in my opinion told a strong story that I somehow felt like I was able to connect with but not entirely (it's hard to explain). Where there was a high point in your life aswell as a down. There was so much build up and suddenly you lost everything but in the end, something or someone found you to keep you afloat above the grand ocean... but you don't know what. Like mystery where at the end was nearly solved, it was at your fingertips but you could never quit reach it.
I can smell the freshness of the trees, the. Birds chirping The leafs falling and im there lying down, tranquil knowing that i run no danger no matter the time or day :"D truly a different experience Sorry if u didnt understand english is not my first language jaja
I did not write this, General Jaydonius did, who is an amazing lyricist. Here is his lyrics to this song After enjoying this song for many years, I've decided to write some lyrics that hopefully catches the meaning and purpose behind the song. You're welcome to change it to suit your own meaning, and maybe finish the rest of it off, but I tend to get so caught up in the harmony it would probably be rude to sing at all. [Starts at 0:19] Will you enjoy, the merry go round? Do you respect, its ups and its downs? As it moves slowly, your soul still lowly, can, you bring back your joy to your heart? (Joy to your heart?) Come and enjoy, our merry go round Never is lost, but needs to be found You'll understand that as it moves like a clock, It's meaning is yours to unlock. Come with and sing, its riddle that's told Your mind is young, but spirit is old. The people dancing, children are prancing, as they sing to the songs of our lives. It's never is shared, or sung as a praise, but all just know of its name. The song that's called life that is sweet and profound, but then, just went as it came. Oh why, strip us of our friends? (Bitterly, bitterly...) Why, give us bitter ends? But the merry go round just still happily goes on, spinning, like hands, of time. (No purpose, reason, or rhyme!) Come and enjoy, the merry go round Never is lost, but just needs to be found Hear cheer and laughter, tales of never after, but it's lights will still shine through the dark. (I both cannot make anymore lyrics, and just love the song to much to put my thoughts over it by this point, and just let it sweep me off my feet, I hope you enjoy it, if you found this in the ocean of comments.)
All the comments and the music make me remember why I love music so much, it can just cause these raw unexplainable emotions,,,, as someone else in the comments mentioned, it also makes me miss dance even if it's just aimlessly moving around my room,,,, i love how it sparks creativity in others in a poem or in a drawing, in a choreography or in a cover of the song! music sure is medicine for the soul, especially when we find a piece that, without a single word, makes us feel, sometimes wanted or unwanted, but necessary, emotions.
Ikr like I grew up on Howl's moving Castle and even as a child I could feel the emotion and even now I still cry when I listen to this song it is such a beautiful and magical song💜💜
Imagine the hardwork and the memorization of playing this. ✨P E R F E C T✨Let's just take some time to appreciate this lovely piece and how well it's played that is some talent right there. This was so lovely 💃Thank you for posting this♥️
I also keep getting reminded of sailor moon when I hear this... Like there's a 3 notes that bring me back and remind me of the music box ending... Anime is such a great part of my life
this reminds me of a small toy shop in the old part of town I used to go to every summer when I was little. I don't know why this reminds me of it, but it's a happy memory. I definitely didn't start bawling immediately.
im currently having a mental breakdown and these covers on kalimba are really helping me feel safe; thank you so much, april. it truly does mean a lot to me and a lot of other people, im sure.
This song makes me reminisce about a distant era I've never experienced nor heard of. But the nostalgia hits harder and harder the more times I replay the song. Truly, a masterpiece.
This was and still is, to my opinion, the best kalimba rendition of this song (and the perfect kalimba for the task!). I come back to hear it every once in a while. Your videos made me start to learn to play kalimba. Thank you very much!
Songs like this one have gently pushed me to create wonderful cities and towns for my fantasy stories. I might never finish writing them, but somehow those places have become a mental palace in my mind, with all my characters, the people around them, the sounds of the town, the smells, how the light reflects on everything... I think I would cry if I ever got to be in those places. How to explain that I miss a home that doesn't exit anywhere but in my mind, yet I still can see it so clearly and almost feel it? Just imagining I could sit and talk with my characters while this song sounds somewhere around us... It's so weird and precious that I can't find the right words to describe this warm happiness that, again, doesn't exist. This comment will probably get lost somewhere, deep in between millions of thoughts of different people that happen to be here at certain moment in life. I guess I couldn't help but to spit it all out. You know, it's one of those moods.
I understand this more deeply than you may ever know. As someone who wields art as my way of surviving, I depend strongly on worlds and people who don't exist. Whether of my own imagination or someone else's, my heart feels connected to places I've never been, and over the years I've cultivated this feeling into an art of its own. The art of feeling a world so distinctly, that I remember that world as being real, and I can shape words around those memories in such a way that others might feel drawn to it as I am. It's a strange feeling, both wonderful and melancholy, but I truly believe I could not live without this phenomenon. It is, in a word, magic.
@@nightlight9292 "I depend on worlds and people who don't exist". That has really touched me so deeply. Thinking of it in a positive way, I guess sometimes we can achieve a different kind of happiness through this magic.😊
I feel like humans are meant to imagine, create, inspire, dream.. Although we choose to be distracted by the little things. I lucid dream often, which gives me that peace that needs to be restored, the peace which we may never get in this world. I dream about my characters, some faraway place that doesn’t exist on Earth, a place where I can be at peace. I find myself wishing I could have these things in my life, in reality. What I need to remember is that _imagination_ will always be with me. Imagination is the best part of being a human.
Same here! There are so many worlds in my mind with different people, just like you mentioned. It has become my safe place in a way, away from humans in real life, away from today’s society. Just a place of peace for my soul. I meet new people there, explore the city and do different activities. It is so amazing and so fascinating how the human brain works. When that place is settled (no more modifications), I just start to draw it and a special palette is associated with it. And I visit it from time to time. Pure nostalgia in my head... Thanks for sharing your experiences!
I go into my mother’s room at 6am and start playing this song on my kalimba until she wakes up. She told me it makes her that much closer to living a fairytale.
The theme song has never failed to bring up the grand and whimsical world of Howl's moving castle for me. Would like to see Howl and Sophia waltzing in a Grand ballroom with the music with her SIlver flowing hair in the arms of Howl.
I think this song perfectly captures how love is like. Full of trials and tribulations but in the end it’s worth it and beautiful. It makes me feel like I’m in some sort of dream and it’s beautiful. Joe Hisaishi is an amazing composer and really captures the beauty of howls moving castle along with Sophie’s adventure and her relationship with Howl
私はこの音楽が大好きです！ I love this music ! 日本の音楽をこうやって演奏してくれるととても嬉しいです。 I am glad you perform Japanese song. わたしはにほんじんでえいごがすこししかはなせないけど、わかってもらいたいです。 みてくれてありがとうございます！
I am being amazed with different covers for merry go round of life, first piano cover then guitar cover and now kalimba cover. All of these unexpectedly very much beautiful, i am shocked each time i listen and thank you for this video♥️
