“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before .. more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
– Haruki Murakami
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a Hymn to Constance from a NEGUS of authentic music x
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
my baby would have been 20 today. always in my heart, soul and mind.
“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
物の哀れ (mono no aware)
a hymn from the king for Constance x
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a Hymn to Constance…
“No permanence is ours; we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds”…
Hymn For Constance #2
30 pieces.
from my heart and soul.
for the angel who blessed me
by sharing her life
for the whole journey.
by her side.
Rest in Love and Eternal Peace kohzu.
Until we meet again…
dad x
Next tune from the urbanpoet laureate, the mercurial Gil Scott Heron, the undisputed master of urbanemusicology. For me the man is up there with the great poets and troubadours. Authentic, deep, meaningful.
Highlighted from the 1977 LP – Bridges (featuring Brain Jackson).
Cuts like these don’t grow on trees..
One listen alone could NEVER do it justice.
Los Cabelleros are none other than Alton Ellis, Zoot Simms and the Wailers..
BIG, HEAVYWEIGHT Rocksteady Selection from themusicologist vaults.
TOP Drawer ‘Big City’ blues from Jimmy ‘T99’ Nelson. Protege of the great Big Joe Turner who taught the young Nelson all he needed to know about singing and ‘the game’.
1955 Release on the Chess Label.
over the MANY years that themusicologist has been flinging down cuts from the vaults OCEANS have flowed under the ‘bridge’, causing a man to reflect on the deepest of life’s experiences. I have been as deep as a wo/man can go. Travelled Hills and Gullies and along ‘the way’ there has only been one, consistent language that continues to teach and guide.
You know what language I refer to so I won’t spell it out.
Climbing back into the saddle with this mercurial (1951) piece from the pioneering blues legend , another Crescent City virtuoso, Lonnie Johnson. If you don’t know who this cat is suffice to say he was dropping urbanemusicology as far back as the 1920’s.
Hold this piece
requiem for Constance. always in my heart x
one from the majestic Anouar Brahem who continues to deliver pure, authentic music of the HIGHEST order. If you don’t know master Brahem I, (themusicologist), IMPLORE you to invest some time in making his acquaintance. a body of art that, for me, is second to NONE. Only the greats are fit to help my daughter ‘cross the bridge’
“After Silence … ”
Rest in Peace Kohzu. I Love you with every fibre of my being. x
Ann Peebles – Until You Came Into My Life
“Oh the joy came over me when you came into my life,
Sweet love that you bring me cut through my darkness like a knife …..”
“I love all the many charms about you,
above all i want my arms around you…”
wherever you are i am with you x
“Can’t begin to understand,
I look the same but I’m a different man,
And inside I’m hurting So,
Loneliness it just won’t go,
Since you been gone,
Haven’t been myself,
This must be a dream,
Strange as it seems,
I never thought that this could ever be,
My friends don’t come around in sympathy,
But NOTHING they say or do could ease the pain,
Though I’m trying to work it out, it’s all in vain”
themusicologist 