"Year of the Rooster", from Enjoy Your Rabbit by Sufjan Stevens (2001)

Track 9 of the electronica instrumental album Enjoy Your Rabbit, based on the animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Check out the annotations for details about the particular animal and its relation to the zodiac.

A strings version of the album, Run Rabbit Run, is a collaboration with the Osso String Quartet and has been released on October 2009. All tracks are available on YouTube... look at the right of this page and you'll see some.
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Check out the annotations for details about the particular animal and its relation to the zodiac.

A strings version of the album, Run Rabbit Run, is a collaboration with the Osso String Quartet and has been released in October 2009. All tracks are available on YouTube... look at the 'Related Videos' section and you'll see some.
--
Courtesy to Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Support independent artists through donations and going to their shows. It is my belief that they make the best music around - free of all restrictions of the commercial music industry, where profits and chart positions are the first and only priority.

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[algolubski]

Does anyone have a translation of the Chinese spoken starting at 5:39? I'm really curious. I speak a little Mandarin myself, but I can't make out what she's saying for the life of me. I've searched around the internet, but I can't find anything.

[PenaltyKillah]

I've been pretty puzzled by this too, and I'm Chinese-speaking myself. Sounds like Cantonese in some parts, but the words seemed to be jumbled up. Sorry... and thanks for playing!

[Falldayisnice]

@algolubski dragon went to buy **** , ox came back from work and is very tired, the rabbit died but is now alive, the tiger is hungry be careful, the monkey is coming, the door is open the dogs will runaway, if the rat stole our garbage it will know a lot about us, don't listen to that bad person, lets ride our horses up to the mountain tops and eat wild *** and it will benefit our health, the sheep's wool is very pretty, *** is arriving, the chicken sings like a piano playing

[samiam1432]

The Run Rabbit Run arrangement of this album is SO MUCH BETTER.