Damien Rice & Cantus Domus (It Takes a Lot to Know a Man) | One To One

It was in Oct. 2016, in Berlin, during Michelberger Music.
Between each show of the festival, we were kidnapping a person in the audience, which we were taking to a secret room where an artist was waiting.
Between the two of them, a unique experience : a One To One concert.
To see more content from MichelBerger Music go here : michelbergermusic.com/
Filmed by Colin Solal Cardon, Curly Comas, Ilan Cohen
Edited by Melissa Sadouni
Color by Théo Lamury
Mixed by Andi Toma
Produced by Michelberger, La Blogothèque, Les Petites Planètes
Based on an idea by Damien Rice, developed by Damien Rice and Chryde during Michelberger Music in Berlin, Oct. 2016
Kidnapping : India Love and Jason Dibler
Tibetan Bowl : Priscilla Telmon
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[@lataviawilliams2086]

La Blogothèque Its like listening to the Hunger Games melody.

[@soryialive3996]

La Blogothèque John Mayer and Alicia keys

[@vegisaynom]

Just so you're aware, youtube has put a midroll ad on this video, right at the most emotional point! I'd happily watch like 10 ads to see this though! Thought I'd bring it to your attention! :)

[@TravisStockton]

addblock plus blocks every advert on yt

[@carogalicia4895]

I love this song too much, when I first heard it my tears wanted to shoot out of my eyes. I don't have friends who like the same music as me, it is good to know that there are still many people who have the ability to empathize with this song, I think this song is one of Damien's masterpieces and I am happy to have listened to it . Music is such a beautiful world. 🖤🎵

[@ffllaasshh2067]

As someone who is into rap, RnB, and the newer melodic rap, Brooklyn drill, and other genres, over and over again I find myself just listening to this song to zone out and get away from life and for 10 minutes live through the music and its perfect layering of all the different parts, it's truly beautiful

[@wanderleydan6527]

Wow... just perfect, isn't it?

[@vaibhavpandey1682]

same sister same🥲

[@partikle]

It’s been three years and yet here I am still moved to tears when I watch this. I saw him for the first time in concert last night after wanting to see him for decades.

[@clarecooper6673]

Here with you united by extraordinary humans cresting beautiful music. Isn't it wonderful 💛

[@federicaformicola3305]

Now and then I need to listen to this and remind to myself that beauty still exists

[@justagirl1894]

Exactly why I’m here……❤

[@miguelmagalhaes9515]

The synchronization, the highs, the lows, the eruption of Damien's voice in the middle of such a beautiful apocalypse. This. This is truly music

[@johnsands9108]

Well said Miguel.

[@Act23ful]

"it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world"

[@krizzztl]

Belhedi , I love so much how you react here. I’m feeling likewise.

[@throughthewindowpane]

I would think I died of a heartattack during the festival and these were the angels singing to welcome me in heaven... Absolutely stunning performance!

[@andrewc9524]

Everybody gangsta til they got the tuning bowl on their head

[@kerlysolon4837]

To Damien, Cantus Domus and La Blogothèque - Thank you. This is beyond beautiful. My heart is full.

[@nicholerawls168]

Beyond beautiful....love, LIFE...Living .....is ...beautiful when we get out of the way.....

[@DalidaD]

I have never experienced anything more emotional than this. It's as if I was there and could sense every vibration and every breath. I cry every single time I watch this, especially at the end when silence hits and the last echo fades. Whoever came up with this incredible idea is a genius. What a gift, my god. I would have cried my heart out in that chair. There are no words for me to express how much I appreciate Damien Rice and his talent. And this collaboration with Cantus Domus was just perfection. Thank you @La Blogothèque for allowing us viewers to be part of this almost otherworldly experience.

[@gracesegars4333]

I imagine you will not see this, but I SO agree with your comment, and wanted to note for you that it was Damien himself who created this whole series concept! So this here is him being one of many artists carrying out the vision that was his. Hope you are well!

[@DalidaD]

​@@gracesegars4333 I have just seen your comment and wanted to thank you for letting me know who the genius was behind this incredible concept, and Damien Rice being that genius fits in the picture perfectly. You are very kind for sending this message, thank you! I am well, certainly much more so than a lot people directly affected by war and destruction but absolutely sad and pessimistic about the world and where our civilisation is heading in general. These are sad times and art and music like Damien Rice's are my only solace under these depressing circumstances. But I am getting by. And I do hope you are well too!

[@brittanybaker2408]

I don't know what I love more: ▪the fact that this happened ▪the fact that this was Damien Rice's idea OR ▪the fact that Damien Rice is still creating music. I miss him. Where has he been?

[@agustvalsson8572]

In Iceland, lives not to far a away from me :D

[@davethehatatkins708]

yeah I know, I only recently discovered favorite faded fantasy, what an album.. wow.. & to have ben part of this in Berlin.. Amazing..

[@christineyoung1492]

So beautiful 🎵🎵

[@irinaelan4304]

@@agustvalsson8572 hi, can you tell me approximately which area is it?

[@kennethnisbet3847]

I have followed Damien for many years. I remember thinking during his hiatus if we could just get he and Lisa back in the same room to perform for all our leaders, world peace would be the only logical outcome from such magnificence. After seeing this, it is his brilliance and humility that make world peace attainable, nothing against Lisa. His ability to sing to the soul accompanied by these angelic voices is something to behold, it demands a visceral response. I love when artists re-emerge with more depth and clarity.

[@Jontenz28]

I love the way they all react - girl with long hair smiling, an unconscious reaction when you're thrown in such beauty, but you can see how it hits her, girl with short hair just constantly in awe, and the guy trying to stay composed, but feeling it deep down. Amazing. If any of you see this I would love to know how you felt being there :D

[@cleicardoso1672]

Damien Rice came out from Middle Age and brought the paradise with him. ❤

[@eoleleremede3468]

Yeah but no correlation inbetween middle age and paradise I guess

[@booksmeller]

I would've imploded, then quickly dissolved into my own existence then lastly blown in the wind with the few crumbs of me that remained. What an experience. (Can you tell I love Damien?)

[@thebrandonkm]

I can't believe how composed those people are - I would have straight up started bawling in like 30 seconds

[@ctwlk]

I know right?

[@eklypps1134]

BKMPictures same...

[@norielkaselowski3808]

Actually - we all kinda did ;)

[@jamram1906]

i just cried watching it xD

[@smilytoe]

What an experience! It must of been amazing! I had tears watching it from my phone!

[@props651]

Here on my monthly check-in. Mind still blown. I remember the first time I heard/saw the Volcano video on VH1. After hearing the first few notes, I stopped whatever it was I was doing in the kitchen. I hurried to the tv. I was hypnotised. I bought the O album that week. This, coming from a primarily hip-hop, r&b, Metal listener. This opened so mamy doors.

[@TheEnneite]

It's so warm, it's like wrapping yourself in a blanket

[@cuuliemirishmusic]

I've met the girl with the short hair yesterday at the house concert recorded by the blogotheque . When he started singing it takes a lot to know a man , she started to sob and had to step back . After the show I've asked her if she was ok, she told me that the day of the house gig, blogotheque just uploaded the video from Berlin and it brought too much emotions . I'm so happy for her in a way. Whoever you are , girl, I have a picture of you staring at Damien during yesterday's event

[@salimachekat8004]

Her name is Nora Bouaazzouni, she's a journalist :)

[@norabouazzouni]

👋

[@cuuliemirishmusic]

nora bouazzouni tu veux la photo ? C'est de la qualité smartphone

[@Randa12Emam]

nora bouazzouni same girl, same!

[@anewdawn2009]

I’d love to read about their experience

[@per2]

so this is how oposite of torture looks like :)

[@MimaKovac]

In this world how it is today maybe torturing with beauty would be more effective?

[@lukesters7234]

Was going to write the exact same thing...glad I checked the comments first x

[@Snoopyfreak87]

Damien is not from this world.. He's the god of all the emotions. Pls COME back 2 Belgium!

[@arirang3]

what a perfect moment for someone

[@user-dv6td4ke5p]

Well, you are a Damien's fan too! Glad to see your comment in this video.

[@HasteTheDayNow]

That cry at 7:30, like a call to the gods.

[@miboogaroo]

HasteTheDayNow ....just perfection...

[@blanjeanolivier3420]

For me, the most beautiful song on KZbin. This version is so intense. I wish i was there. Unforgettable for those people who were chosen. Thank you

[@marc-artwork]

Personally, I melt on the chair (in tears)...

[@props651]

Damian looks like he spent an a whole week locked away in an old pub. Stellar performance. I've been playing this over and over....

[@garymeow309]

Since I saw this video, I need to come back once a month (at least) This is a TREASURE!

[@clarecooper6673]

This is so much. Extraordinary. I feel blessed as though i having just been the person privated serenaded. Awesome idea, brilliantly executed by huge talents. And what a song. Thank you to the Art makers xx

[@JussaraAlmeida2912]

And he kneels in front of the person... Amazing! What could anyone say after such a beautiful moment?

[@mieppow1]

Nothing but cry..

[@DalidaD]

I would have wanted to hug Damien in silence.

[@ayushuniyal5366]

What religion is this. Sign me up.

[@ElyKahn]

Me too. Actually sacrifice me at the altar of this religion.

[@soumyajyotimukherjee4752]

Tis called Music. And it's everywhere already.. just listen to the sound of your heartbeat.. the sounds of your conscious thought..there lies it..the idea of music.

[@davidjones-bh5xg]

🤣

[@toxicvoid0663]

Looks like a cult

[@dibbelschisser6776]

This is the religion called unconditional love. It's universal. No need to join just be open.

[@jz5508]

How these people don't just lose it is beyond me, this is such a beautiful performance.

[@othmane8753]

This video is a therapy to me in a way that I can never describe!

[@ninadtiwari8020]

It's a music therapy. Make us feel light.🌼

[@Draques]

Only 10 seconds of this, and I would be crying.

[@GustavoBizoni]

It's been 3 weeks since I started looking in the dictionary for a word to describe how beautiful this is and I still haven't found...

[@tomfingleton5296]

Amazing and must be listened to on headphones. Thanks to all for this and also to sound engineer for fantastic recording. I bet the "kidnapped" after the performance left the room and found a quiet space and just literally broke down and cried - it would have been me. Holding it together while cameras were on but after - would have had a breakdown. Hard to take so much perfection. Once in lifetime experience, I'm sure.

[@stellatmv3736]

This was magic. His divine voice!! "Based on an idea by Damien Rice" what more to be said for him(?)! Make us a gift Damien ...A new record.

[@anewdawn2009]

Stella Tmv he said he is writing and recording last week

[@stellatmv3736]

Dawn Dees seriously? This is truly a gift and it first came from you! At last, something to wait for, in the music field. Thank U.

[@user-xf1yq2vp5v]

Lyrics It takes a lot to know a man It takes a lot to understand The warrior, the sage The little boy enraged It takes a lot to know a woman A lot to understand what's humming The honeybee, the sting The little girl with wings It takes a lot to give, to ask for help To be yourself, to know and love what you live with It takes a lot to breathe, to touch, to feel The slow reveal of what another body needs It takes a lot to know a man A lot to know, to understand The father and the son The hunter and the gun It takes a lot know a woman A lot to comprehend what's coming The mother and the child The muse and the beguiled It takes a lot to give, to ask for help To be yourself, to know and love what you live with It takes a lot to breathe, to touch, to feel The slow reveal of what another body needs It takes a lot to give, to ask for help To be yourself, to know and love what you live with It takes a lot to breathe, to touch, to feel The slow reveal of what another body needs It takes a lot to live, to ask for help To be yourself, to know and love what you live with It takes a lot to breathe, to touch, to feel The slow reveal of what another body needs What are you so afraid to lose? What is it you're thinking that will happen if you do? What are you so afraid to lose? (You wrote me to tell me you're nervous and you're sorry) What is it you're thinking that will happen if you do? (Crying like a baby saying "this thing is killing me") What is it you're so afraid to lose? (You wrote me to tell me you're nervous and you're sorry) What is it you're thinking that will happen if you do? (Crying like a baby saying "this thing is killing me")

[@estherV4N3V9]

Thank you for the lyrics.

[@matheushc_]

Χριστίνα Λουζιώτη ♡..

[@MedicatedActivities]

Wowww!!! 😭

[@panoster1]

Ευχαριστώ Χριστίνα, the song is a lot more beautiful when you have the lyrics to follow!

[@zarathustra51]

and Lamb of the God, who bears the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

[@loh.22]

Damien Rice was one of my very first musical loves and he has been singing to my soul for so many years. I adore him

[@apathysatragedy3114]

My laptop's speakers are trying to tell me they can't play this video at top volume I would laugh at their screams if I could stop crying at the fact that Damien Rice kidnapped people and sang to them and it was beautiful and LOUDER DAMMIT!

[@josuemontes2200]

You know you connect to music in a way many people do not when it hits you so hard, you get emotional. Music is an necessity for the world in way that resonates beyond human comprehension.

[@RosaFelix]

I've heard this song and my life changed. Nothing has ever touched me so much.

[@md.nafisfuad7580]

This video couldn't have been more perfect. Thanks Damien Rice for creating this song.

[@yk876]

В который раз пересматриваю и каждый раз переполняет чувствами. А люди такие красивые. Я бы точно умерла там от чувств. Случается же такое волшебство. И это всё только лишь голосом! Люди, вы хоть понимаете какие мы прекрасные?

[@cristinaargentieri8655]

This is just unreal, I've watched this maybe 30 times as far and I still have chills!

[@valerieweirvantil9994]

To have stumbled across this, I feel like I'm the bewildered soul sitting in the chair.

[@jirijuas95]

This was unreal. Keep doing these amazing things La Blogothèque, such a great channel

[@Plusbr]

Oh my God! I don't know what I'd be able to do if I were presented with something like that. It would be an honor watch Damien Rice so close to me and singing to me. Wow!! I love you Damien!

[@jclark1693]

I love the reactions you managed to capture. The long haired girl who seemed simply amazed and in awe, the short haired girl who seemed to break out in tears almost immediately and looked like she was holding it back the whole time, the stoic man who looked like he was likewise barely keeping his stoic face who looked totally stunned by the end. I can only imagine how astonishing it would have felt not just emotionally but physically to be surrounded by all those voices in the nice reverb of that room. I want to move to Europe if only to one day be able to wander into one of you brilliant performance concepts.

[@ROYVKEY]

Damien Rice is a god of music.

[@Adnan-si9wq]

7:00 to 8:03 is beyond excellent

[@markusk.e.p.3268]

I cant't believe just 160,000 people watched this! The most touching video I saw in years, thank you!

[@randomniche1345]

I would have started crying the minute I saw Damien honestly I'm having shivers down my spine right now and crying just from seeing this on the phone I don't know if I would've still been alive if I were there personally

[@ferjant]

Damien, you're killing me! Next album already, cmon!

[@kbc2896]

This would be amazing as a VR headset experience, if only!

[@graceborges5006]

This is just breathtaking! Impossible to describe it in words! Just feel it down to your core! 😢❤

[@felipealonso7859]

The chills man, just hearing it in my cheap headphones, and still send shivers down my spine, I can't even imagine how it would feel to be there, just magical.

[@kaleidoscopeallie]

It KILLS me that there is an add in the middle of this. Such a powerful experience ....then suddenly a moose is sitting in a chair wearing plaid and hawking me 'Casino Stuga' Now I dunno what add you other people are seeing but I think we can probably agree that it is a shame it's there.

[@vegisaynom]

KZbin automatically added midroll ads to videos that meet certain criteria, and unfortunately this is one! Such a moving piece, hopefully they'll remove it!

[@hetzijzoal]

If you watch on brave browser they hide all ads. Uninterrupted view on KZbin

[@ThaynaLeticia]

Certa vez eu estava assistindo um documentário e começou a tocar essa música. Eu parei o documentário na hora e fui procurá-la. Eu nunca tinha nem ouvido falar do Damien Rice mas eu simplesmente senti que deveria parar tudo que estava fazendo e escutá-lo. Foi um dos maiores presentes da minha vida. Quanto sentimento há nessa música e em especial nesta apresentação. Eu sempre venho escutá-la quando sinto que preciso e se tornou minha música favorita. Minha terapia.

[@skfhdsjknldgfv]

I’m going through a break up and needed the release from a cry. Knew this song would do it in the best way. Damien Rice is an Angel.

[@joeelmahdy4407]

Everytime i feel unsafe i come here..divine!

[@AdiKanda]

Why doesn't this have 600 million views?

[@annagrey9673]

Al ragazzo in treno che mi ha consigliato questa bellissima performance, grazie. 🌸

I would weep so hard man... Eyes of the short haired woman kill me everytime, I would definitely need a big ass hug after

[@johngrindle3775]

To be moved to tears is one thing, to hear something so beautiful it changes the course of my day is another. Rarely a sound alters me this way. Damien, and all, ... incredible, beautiful, ... people please help there are not the words ....

[@MrBrno]

This is beautiful. Pure emotion. Shivers down my spine...

[@ElMorituri]

Been following Damien Rice for more than a decade. Got several of his CDs and always have 3-4 of his songs in my portable playlist. Amazing story about his visit to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma, search her story), Peace Nobel Prize, while she was in house arrest. A song came after that visit, called "Unplayed Piano". Truly awesome guy and artist.

[@RachelHarding777]

Crying my eyes out stunned, beautiful is nowhere near how, that, felt

[@emzalot4092]

THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING TO EVER EXIST I AM CRYING AT ITS BEAUTY. MUSIC IS MAGICAL DAMIEN RICE IS A GENIUS THIS ARRAIGNMENT IS BRILLIANT

[@dominikboehm4956]

iddy

[@palakbhattacharya3355]

Words cannot express what this makes you feel. This is beyond beautiful. It is ethereal.

[@samvermeulen9740]

This is not just a song, this is a religious experience without the involvement of any god. This is music in the most pure form.

[@peteradolphsen]

9:49 That smile. I think I'm in love.

[@AkthamAbulHusn]

I was so dumb and so clever at the same time not to go there.. So dumb to think it didn't worth the 80€ and the time for such a one in a life time experience.. so clever, because I would have had a heart attack facing this huge amount of beauty and magic.. thanks for sharing this. Thanks for making this. And please please please, do it again!

[@davethehatatkins708]

that is So poweful.. to be sung at like that.. as Your personal concert, even if they do the same thing everynight, tyo be chosen for that privilege.. it's amazing choral work of these tunes.. wow .. one

[@desireevandenbogaard5237]

I am touched... The music is beautiful and the expression on the face of the girl with the longer hair makes me so happy and makes me cry at the same time.

[@heidithatswho.2481]

This is glorious

[@gmutz]

Theres no better visual representation of the power that art has and the varied effects it has on the individual. Is there a way I can wake up to this every morning?

[@LLShiningOtter]

If you’re feeling a little low people I highly recommend taking a few minutes and watching this video it may make you sad but it will make you wonderfully hopefully sad .highly recommend this video

[@avdude10]

Wow, that was beautiful, just special. It left me in tears.

[@itsoriya9340]

heart wrenching

[@RosaFelix]

This is the most beautiful thing I ever listened. I'm overwhelmed. Unsettling.

[@praveenbhusal]

What have I done to deserve this? 💙

[@theressamurphy2996]

Touched my soul.... unselfish love is the goodness of your life. So beautiful 😂😂

[@eklypps1134]

It takes alot to understand why anyone would thumbs down this fantastically soul stirring performance...

[@Barrister007]

Hard to understand, isn't it? But the longer one lives, the more curious life (and people) appear to be.

[@nbhatia124]

Closest to Heaven I will ever get. Thank you Damien and CD.

[@ethanwilson5528]

My heart would explode if this happened to me! I would cry out all the water in my body! The release of love, pain and life...through words, vibrations and sounds. WOW!!!

[@ElyKahn]

Absolutely sublime. Gave me chills...at 2:25 the female vocalist's high note shoots electricity down my spine.

[@nordabrilo]

So touching... can't stop crying.

[@zal_raj]

Shivers just kept running throughout the body. I can't tell if it was the music, the eyes, the harmonies or simply the tears. Or, the way I felt through the day, somehow this video connected to that. Regardless, it's beautiful, just like all other Damien Rice creations.

[@LLShiningOtter]

Just had to watch it again needed my fix of humanity

[@Ankur4330]

Here on Damien's 47th birthday! :)

[@JussaraAlmeida2912]

This is so immensely beautiful that I've been listening to it since it was uploaded here 6 years ago.

[@randomniche1345]

I was playing the acapella version on my phone when I opened the KZbin app and this was the first thing that popped up God is great

[@IsaacsCOOLwhenitsHOT]

I just see myself sitting in that seat, and Jesus singing to me, looking similarly to Damien, same clothes and hair, maybe with a longer beard. And I just see angels around me, singing to me. They look the same as the people in the video, so diverse and unique yet so unified. In the same room. Their song: “He has given everything to you. This is his love.” And then Jesus kneels like Damian did, his hands exposed with two holes through them. Under my chair is a wash basin, and he begins to wash my feet while still belting out his song over me. And this happens for the rest of eternity, while simultaneously I am worshipping him with everything that I am with passion that never runs dry.

[@BabakAzarian]

This video made me smile and cry in between seconds. This is what i call art. Magic. Humanity.

[@esztermartaszucs4660]

I have no words. I didn't even know, but I just needed this. Thank you!

[@veked9071]

this goes beyond words my soul is crying and weeping softly, in recognition, remembering

[@atashakgem]

Ahh Ahhh indeed 😢Takes a lot to understand this poetry, Takes a lot to create such genuine exquisite Art gift to the world long had forgotten human like living 😢💔, bravo creating Such soulful mass artistic chanting meditation , deepest gratitude to Damien & True artists brightening roads of awakening 🙌🏻✌️🙏💟☮️

[@renatanaumoska1507]

The guy is genius! Stunning...all together are just perfect!

[@Cr7-legend7]

Pure feelings between humans ! Purefect damien as always 🖤

[@randomniche1345]

I honestly tried to imagine being there. I can't it's too surreal to comprehend such magic

[@miggy_lan]

this is. a once in a lifetime experience. this is fucking incredible