[Shuffle 41] Knowing you knowing me knowing us
Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
Baduizm, Erykah Badu
Hejira, Joni Mitchell
Selected Recordings ECM, Dave Holland
Once I Was An Eagle, Laura Marling
Sought something witchy and mystic to guide a new exploration. Candles lit and hands full of the universe, what should I hear? One album called out: Van taps into the ether in Astral Weeks: his voice catches the slipstream: follows its flow: begs me to follow, too. Erykah's wisdom woke me up to a different way even earlier, offered me a peek at a sort of spirituality I never had (was all I never had?). From jump, she made me jump. And think. And groove. Always groove. Hejira circles around a certain sort of witchiness that works here, now. Then I recalled a track on this Dave collection that I used years ago and recently revisited for morning stretches; Inception (Life Cycle). His strings always pull me onto another plane, too; vibrate me beside myself. But Laura flew into my mind on a whim. Perhaps just thinking of Joni, wit and wisdom, air and ether. Sound that swirls, unfurls like smoke, expanding up and out, always becoming less itself and more everything else. It's a pattern we can fall into too, if we allow it: you and I and us, all three, forever spiraling.
Heard this go’round: December 26, 2020
Damn! Gimme that rim-shot-sho-sh-sho-sh-shot-shot-shot! N-n-now-now-now. Let it flow, make it grow, set it free: way up in heaven: in another time: and another place. Whisper and simmer, hover, a lover's lips flitting across the back edge of my ear, becoming everything. Horn hollerin' down the hall, the neighbors feuding, the voices in my head. And then right in front of me, a wail lighting up like fire, an inch from my nose, all around me. An invitation. And then ease. "You know what I know when I know what I know that you know." We know. Her gentle strum, punctuated by a tighter tug every so, then every now, when her breath catches just for a moment, before catching another silver slipper airstreaming "down the highway." Finally forgiven and finally in flight, soaring.
The Way Young Lovers Do
On & On
Once
Astral Weeks
Afro - Freestyle Skit
The Balance
Interlude
You Know
Blue Motel Room
Prime Directive
When Were You Happy? (And How Long Has That Been)
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