Taro - Alt J (acoustic cover by MICHAL)

This is my acoustic cover for the song Taro by Alt J.

This song is one of the hardest songs i've singed, simply because I had to change the pitch so it could match mine and the words were very confusing at first. It was so confusing that I had to record it over and over again for about 20 times, that's why you see me at the end of the video griping and saying "Good enough", I was pretty frustrated after the 20th recording haha

I remember the firs time I listened to this song. It was about 4-5 years ago, and this song really got my attention. It sounded so interesting and it got me thinking of the lyrics's meaning. I searched for the meaning and surprisingly found an interesting and heart-breaking piece of history. I found out that this song tells the story of two war photographers and lovers, Gerda Taro and Robert Capa who died while documenting war.

I'm copying Lux Meow's comment from the original clip here:

"The song was written about the life and death of the two lovers – Robert Capa and Gerda Taro.

Taro was born in 1910 into a Jewish family in Germany. In 1933 she was arrested due to political activities against the Nazi regime. After Taro was released, she fled to Paris, where she met Robert Capa. Capa, Hungarian born Jew (who was born named Andrew Friedman), fled to Germany and then to Paris in 1933 as well, where he continued his career as a photographer of war. Over time, the young couple fell in love, and with this love, Taro Love has emerged to Capa’s profession of war photography. Within a few years she mastered the profession and became one of the first women in the field of war photography, and sadly at the age of 27 she was the first woman that was killed while fulfilling her job (in the Barnett 1937 as part of the Spanish Civil War).
Kappa paid this heavy psychological cost – not only lost the the love of his life, he also blamed himself for her death – since he was not there with her. Despite the loss and pain, Capa went on to document the Spanish Civil War till the end of the war.

Capa photographed many more wars, including World War II.
Capa was killed in the line of duty as a photographer War Indochina War in 1954, at age 40, when he ran over a mine.

Capa managed to stay true to his principals – in his eyes, it was crucial to document the war from the perspective of an average soldier and accordingly, he would say:
“If your photographs are not good enough, you’re not close enough”.

The band Alt-J decided to release a song dedicated to this couple who loved one another and was also devoted to their work, Ultimately they paid this remarkable devotion with their life."

Surely, this is one interesting and heart-breaking piece of history. You can read more about them in Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Taro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

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After I read the whole history I ran over to hear the song again and was so charmed and hypnotized from it that I listened to it over and over againg and even cried several times. The whole war topic was very sensitive for me at the time because I was surving the army myself and saw it from up close.


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