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
#0825 Alabama Shakes – Sound and Colour
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#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 [#0819] Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs – Ready we Ready
Pluto Meets Jupiter #5
FIRST cut of 2019. HEAVYWEIGHT late 1990’s dancehall cut from two of the GREAT Reggae artists, Gregory (the MIGHTY Cool Ruler) Isaacs and Dennis (the Crown Prince) Brown. Released on Anthony ‘Barry U’ Barret’s top ranking, (New York based), Super Power label
#themusicologist [#0818] Marion Gaines Singers – Grandmas Hands
Pluto meets Jupiter #4
TOP RANKING version of the majestic Bill Withers tune.
#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 [#0816] Dennis Brown – Tribulation
Pluto meets Jupiter #2
Sliding out of the Cool Ruler and into one from the Crown Prince..
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
#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]
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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
#themusicologist [#811] Baby I Love you so – Jacob Miller
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
Eternally x
#themusicologist [#810] On the nature of daylight – Max Richter
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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.” Maya Angelou
You were/are and will ALWAYS be a ‘RAINBOW in my cloud’ Kohzu x
#themusicologist [#809] Rocking Chair – Sidney Bechet
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“In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do.” -Bob Marley
#themusicologist [#808] Maybe someday – the Paragons
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“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius
#themusicologist [#807] Girl of my Dreams – Cornell Campbell
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