Chord Sounds, by Moby

Every time I hear this somber and beautifully simple song, I think about that tragic day and my dear friend Suria Clarke (argh, I am welling up with tears just writing her name) who had just recently started working at WTC and was taken away from us on that sad day. I cannot explain why I so strongly associate this song with 9/11. I think it is because the entire song consists of two powerful and beautifully rich chords seeming to soar ever higher into the heavens. And I think song's combination of emotion and electronica is a very appropriate way to remember the horrible human toll of that day in the midst a lesser but still tragic industrial toll. I think the song really should have been named "In the shadow of no towers" (borrowed from the Art Spiegelman comic.)

Thank you for letting me share this, tears and all.

Anders Ramsay