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“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
– C.S. Lewis
until we meet again ConTzu xx
#0870 Kerber – Yann Tiersen
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#0840 Meditation – Gurdjieff, de Hartmann – Alain Kremsky
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“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.” – Haruki Murakami
#0835 R.E.M-Its the end of the world as we know it
A Critique of 2020 #1
#0833 Willie Nix – Nervous Wreck
LOST CONNECTIONS #5
“The object before us, to begin with, material production….
Individuals producing in society, (hence socially determined individual production), is, of course, the point of departure.
In this society of free competition, the individual appears detached from the natural bonds etc. which in earlier historical periods make him the accessory of a definite and limited human conglomerate.
The more deeply we go back into history, the more does the individual, and hence also the producing individual, appear as dependent, as belonging to a greater whole: in a still quite natural way in the family and in the family expanded into the clan [Stamm]; then later in the various forms of communal society arising out of the antitheses and fusions of the clan.”
– (Karl Marx 1857-8)
#0832 Boogie – Tired
LOST CONNECTIONS #4
Carrying on with the ‘theme’. This cut is courtesy of Boogie, MASSIVE tune. HEAVYWEIGHT lyrics and one of my favourite cuts of this year.
“Its hard to put on war boots when you’re walking on egg shells”
#0831 Loscil – In Threes
LOST CONNECTIONS #3
BIG, personal, cut from, (for me), the master of ‘expressionist ambient’, Scott Morgan, aka Loscil. Hold this MAJESTIC cut from 2014. (the Start of a new phase).
#0830 the Devastation –Congestion
LOST CONNECTIONS #2
HARD funk tune. .’BURIAL’ selection.
#0829 Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda
LOST CONNECTIONS #1
essence, consciousness, and bliss
“Of late there has been a new spirit manifested in the youth which is growing up with the depression. This spirit is more purposeful though still confused. It wants to create a new world, but is not clear as to how it wants to go about it. It has not yet realised that it must save itself. The young generation has not yet learned that the problems confronting them can be solved only by themselves and will have to be settled on the basis of social and economic freedom in co-operation with the struggling masses for the right to the table and joy of life.” – Emma Goldman
#0828 Max Richter – EMBERS
Shades #10
“That’s how I can grasp my mourning. Not directly in solitude, empirically, etc.; I seem to have a kind of ease, of control that makes people think I’m suffering less than they would have imagined. But it comes over me when our love for each other is torn apart once again. The most painful point at the most abstract moment” . . . (Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary)
#0827 McKinley Mitchell – The town i live in
Shades #9
You lit up EVERY aspect of life. . x
#0826 Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics – Esketa Dance
Shades (aSongforCon) #8
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
– Sophocles
#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
#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
#themusicologist [#0817] Mulatu Astatke +the Heliocentrics – An EPIC Story
Pluto meets Jupiter #3
HEAVYWEIGHT Slice from the the FATHER of Ethiopian Jazz, backed to the the hilt by the TOP RANKING Heliocentrics
#themusicologist [#0815] Gregory Isaacs – No one is to blame
Pluto meets Jupiter #1
HEAVYWEIGHT Piece from the ‘Cool Ruler’ as we warm up for the [Mid-November] MAJOR Planetary movements. [Jupiter & Pluto]
If you know you know..if you don’t you don’t.
Suffice to say that the PLUTO is ‘returning to the underworld’ [AFTER 250 YEARS !]
Coinciding with the first time my ancestors trod the streets, alleys, roads, hills and gully’s of our home town LONDON due to the FIRST ‘Industrial Revolution’ c1760
250 Years…..an ‘AGE’
#themusicologist [#0814] Brian Eno – An Ending [Ascent]
aSongForConZu
30/08/1995 – 24/09/2014
Rest in peace ConZu…until we meet again Dad xx
#themusicologist [#813] Trois Morceaux aprés des hymnes byzantins I – Vassilis Tsabropoulos and Anja Lechner
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“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a wo/man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.” – Socrates
#themusicologist [#812] Got you on my mind – Cookie & the Cupcakes
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“When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?” – Maya Angelou
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