Did you know that the Egyptian numeral for the number 100,000 was a hieroglyph representing a tadpole? Isn’t that cute? Weren’t ancient civilizations cute? A tadpole! What a choice! I mean, they could have chosen anything to represent such a large integer, and maybe something more imposing than a tadpole, like an elephant, or the broken spine of a Hebrew slave. But no; they stuck with the image of a cute little frog baby as a symbol for a lofty number: what a bunch of aesthetes!

I mention this because I want everyone to fully understand what I mean when I say I love Mark Berube’s Flowers On The Stones as big as a pond full of tadpoles; yes, my appreciation for this song is as wide a watery spawning ground of amphibian copulation. It is a remarkable folk-pop song which showcases Berube’s vibrant, meticulous voice, communicating with such zeal and emphatic veracity, as if every word were as crucial as the last. He’s backed up by The Patrotic Few, a multi-instrumentalist cluster of equally heart-on-your-sleeve musicians which provide the soaring lavishness to Berube’s lyrics. Using an arsenal of rolling drums, upraising violins, and eager piano keys, the song becomes a spirited moment which grows into a bombastic, cheering gleamer which will lull my tadpoles into a group of happy, happy frogs.

MP3: Mark Berube - Flowers On The Stones

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