#0826 Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics – Esketa Dance
aSongForFabes
#0825 Alabama Shakes – Sound and Colour
Shades (aSongforCon) #7
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. For those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi
#0824 Leon Bridges – River
Shades (aSongforCon) #6
“Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.” – Izumi Shikibu
“On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky.
Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, the warrior moves toward turbulence and doubt however they can. They explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and embrace it. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, the warrior lets it be as it is.
At the bottom we discover water, the healing water of bodhichitta.
Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta”. – Pema Chodron
#0823 Solomon Burke – I almost lost my mind
Shades #5
#0822 Brian Eno – Stars
Shades #4
“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won’t be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.” – Hermann Hesse
#0822 Portishead – Roads
Shades #3
“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark” – Haruki Murakami
#0821 Sound Dimension – Tunnel One
Shades #2
“After silence that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music” – Aldous Huxley
#0820 Bonobo – Grains
Shades #1
EVERY August 30th-Sep 24th you can find me throwing down on themusicologist in memory of my daughter, (Until we meet again ConZu x)
Losing a loved one is hard, losing a child is almost unbearable.
In my experience all of the ‘basic emotions’ are involved;
Fear, Anger/Rage, Sadness/Grief, Joy, Disgust, Surprise, Trust, Love, Envy.
This imperious 2017 cut from the mighty Simon ‘Bonobo’ Green shines a light on the darkness in my soul and helps to soothe the savage beast. For ALL the children we have loved and lost……may you ALL rest in peace and find your ‘way’ through.
#themusicologist [#803] Toumani Diabate – Jarabi
“Good friends we’ve had, and good friends we’ve lost,
along the WAY.”
…… this one, themusicologist’s burial cut, is for YOU.
I listen and rejoice in our journey.
themusicologist #0771 Terry Callier – I would rather be with you
Today is and will always be a special day for me. It was on this date in 1995 that ConZu was born.
This cut, and the next 25 are for you ConZu…I hope you are listening.
ALWAYS IN my heart, Soul and ON my mind.
I Am Sorry, Please Forgive me..
#0753 I’ll try something new – the Miracles
aSongforCon
(3 x 7 = 21 … For those who know)
“The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces” – Hermann Hesse
Always in my Heart, Soul and Thoughts Conzu..Sometimes the reality almost crushes me but your strength sees me through. (Until we meet again x)
musicology #0730
AHYMNFORCON #35
10:40am September 24/2014.
With a heavy, broken heart and intense struggle I managed these final words as I watched my beautiful 19 year old daughter slip away…with this song playing in my soul.
John Coltrane – Part 4 – PSALM
“In YOUR light I learn how to love,
In your beauty how to make poems,
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you
but sometimes I do and THAT sight becomes this art”
Today is the final day of my ’30 Day’ musicologyMass and tribute to Constance.
ALWAYS in my heart, soul and thoughts kohzu..with eternal love Dadzu x
Until we meet again x x
#0725 the Gaylads – Joy In The Morning
aHymnForCon #31
“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” ― Kahlil Gibran
#0700 Anouar Brahem – Vague
aHymnForCon #6
無常 mujō
“Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let them who have, learn to lose, and they who are happy, familiarise themselves with what may give pain.” Schiller
musicology #0662 Paul Weller – Where’er You Go
aSongforCon #1
SO much ‘water’ has flowed under my ‘bridge’ since the previous cut. My daughter Constance has passed through this earthly plane, she had just turned 19 years of age.
Words could never do the youngblood justice and i find myself (often) with nothing to say so I reached back into the library pulled out ‘the Prophet’ and read/adapted this.
“Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory.
You have walked among us a spirit, and your shadow has been a light upon our faces.
MUCH have we loved you.
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
And now your ship has come, and you must needs go.
DEEP is your longing for the land of your memories and the dwelling place of your greater desires; and our love would not bind you nor OUR needs hold you.
Yet this we ask ere you leave us, that you speak to us and give us of your truth.
And we will give it unto our children, and they unto their children, and it shall not perish…”
Rest In Peace Kohzu..ALWAYS in my Heart, Mind and Soul.
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