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#themusicologist [786] Irma Thomas – I wish someone would care

all [urbn]musicologists KNOW that the only genuine ‘universal’ is music.

For me, wo/mans GREATEST achievement and the only one worthy of delivering ‘truth’.

clearly this is related to the ‘frequencies’ generated in the ‘act’ of MAKING music.

the greater the ‘harmony’ the more effective the ‘atoms’ blend in the ‘field’.

Hold this RANKING piece from the incredible Irma Thomas a cat already featured on #themusicologist along the ‘way’

that said…Borges does a great job of communicating the ‘essence’ as well.

“Here once again the memorable lips, unique and like yours. I am this groping intensity that is a soul.

I have got near to happiness and have stood in the shadow of suffering.

I have crossed the sea.
I have known many lands; I have seen one woman and two or three men.

I have seen the city’s edge, an endless sprawl where the sun goes down tirelessly, over and over.

I have relished many words.

I believe deeply that this is all and that I will neither see nor accomplish new things.

I believe that my days and my nights, in their poverty and their riches, are the equal of God’s and of all men’s.

 

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#themusicologist #0785 Mister Intentional – Lauryn Hill

#BurialPlaylist Selection

The GREAT Lauryn Hill dropping VOCAL, HARMONIC, LYRICAL BOMBS.

‘Intention’ …. you gettttttttttt me.

 

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#themusicologist #0784 Life is not Easy – Anthony Johnson & Mystic Eyes

BIG tune. Them who FEEL it, KNOW it..

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#themusicologist #0783 Let me be the first one to know – Dinah Washington

#Narrative 1

Nu theme….auld story. Love. Who knows it, better than I ?

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#themusicologist #0782 Heartbeat – Menahan Street Band

aSongForConZu #81

“You, who should have followed me, you are no more – all of my thoughts, my impressions, and all that remains of my existence are bound to your tomb, to which all my wishes aspire.” – Pierre Paul Prud’hon
[The Soul Breaking the Ties That Bind It to Earth]
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#themusicologist #0781 Ask me about nothing but the blues– Bobby Bland

aSongForConZu #80

Nothing is more manifest than the hidden;
nothing is more obvious than the unseen.
Therefore the Master
pays attention to what is happening
within her innermost self.

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#themusicologist #0780 Thoughts – Xiao Ying

aSongForConZu #79

“The Tao is the way things are,
which you can’t depart from
even for one instant.
If you could depart from it,
it wouldn’t be the Tao.
Therefore the Master
looks into her own heart
and respects what is unseen and unheard”.

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#themusicologist #0779 Youre always on My Mind – Sam Cooke

aSongForConZu #78

 

“What is bestowed on us at birth
is called human nature.
The fulfilment of human nature
is called the Tao.
The cultivation of the Tao
is the deepest form of learning”.

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#themusicologist #0777 – You Make Me So Very Happy – Alton Ellis

aSongForConZu #77

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” – Bruce Lee

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#themusicologist #0776 – Comptine d’un Autre été: L’apres-midi – Yann Tiersen

aSongForConZu #76

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” -C.S Lewis

 

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#themusicologist #0775 Jackie Mittoo – Wall Street

aSongForConZu #75

[S]he who KNOWS it………..feels it

“He who wishes to learn must believe” – Aristotle

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#themusicologist #0774 Eleni Karaindrou – Requiem For Willy Loman

aSongForConZu #74

“Let your mind make excursion in pure simplicity. Identify yourself with nondistinction. Follow the nature of things, and admit no personal bias, then the world will be in peace”. Chuang Tzu

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themusicologist #0773 Getatchew Mekurya – Muziqa Heywete

aSongForConZu #73

“We believe because we love.”

Josef Pieper.

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themusicologist #0772 Etta James, Harvey Fuqua – My Heart Cries

#aSongForCon 72

I was lost in a world of dreams

Counting every star……………………….

Shining over head……it seems

I was like a shepherds boy

Searching for his lambs here and there and everywhere

You came wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, yeah ya captured me…

You and all your charms…………oh……yes you set me free

We kissed…………………………and the world was all aglow

Then my heart cried

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i LOVE YOU SO x

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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..

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themusicologist #0770 Gil Scott Heron – Push Comes To Shove

#4WindsBlow

It is a strange old world and and no mistake but MUSIC unifies the

‘4 winds‘:

Heart, Soul, Body and mind and NEVER fails to deliver.

Looking back over almost a CENTURY of (predominantly), urbane musicology has taught me that.

From the earliest days of New Orleans barrel house right up to the street sounds of London, (where i was born and raised), I have listened, reflected, absorbed and learned more from the universal language than from any other source of human narrative.

I feel like rolling out a theme, starting today.

Where and for how long  the ‘wind‘ blows, nobody knows.

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themusicologist #0769 Jose James and Emily King – Come to My Door

Jose James and Emily King – Come to My Door [Acoustic Version]

BIG piece. Going out to the ‘supreme triumvirate’ in my life with MAXIMUM love and profound appreciation for allowing me to share the ‘road’

‘NO beginning. NO end’

Always, Anytime.

 

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#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)

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#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

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#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