Music, Videos, Poetry that Gets Us Through

another instrumental piece. https://youtu.be/Kz2mJ6BBVLU?list=RDKz2mJ6BBVLU    shout out to Michele!  i am glad you liked the Love Is Blue,    i always loved that song, especially towards the end, when the harpsicord unwinds , and it gets really swingy.   But,  i didnt make that video.I wasnt even planning on posting it, either, but the sound was just so shining and clear! My own turntable is the children's old school low tech kind that fits inside of a little suitcase.  Covered with orange leatherette .  lol. And the records i have are so scratchy and dirty, but i dont mind.  i like them that way.                               peace & love

Unk p,

I am howling.  Now that's more like it.  My first stereo of my own was fold up plastic suitcase. I still have it and a slightly improved 80s version. My only surviving needles match yours! But I think I still have John Denver's first record under his performance moniker...if I want to subject it to them which i have not tried recently. 

I did wonder about that rather advanced videography ? Phew. 

PS

I think Daniel Avery's "Diminuendo" altered my brain waves permanently.  It did get my energies moving!

Not used to...what is this kind of music called? Techno something? 

Normajean!

Thank you! I'd totally forgotten about taping those nickels, yes, yes, yes!

is it too early to skip ahead to valentines day, already ? https://youtu.be/pi6aNW8dAlY     

hope everyone is having a blessed MLK, Jr. day .      Here is Moms Mabley https://youtu.be/8Uy8cyVWU2A

do you ever hear a distant, rusty old swingset,  when you are damn well supposed to be in class?  https://youtu.be/XHJ5qleyzyk     do lazy lovers send you Red Roses with Babies Breath, but all you really wanted  were Opium Poppies or Venus Fly-traps or Love-in-a Puffs or Forget-Me-Nots or Voo-Doo Lillies or  Angels Trumpets or 4 Leaf Clovers or Triliums or 2-Sided Peonies or Sea Anemonies?

(3 different ways to) Walk On By:  like a Goddess of the very Air https://youtu.be/wjYAsVfJE8c   or 2, like one Beach Boy https://youtu.be/qkIw6SMt2bs , or like we do down in houston, slow the record down back it up a minute Isaac Hayes is on and sun is so hot  thin mint towers and cough syrup bayous spilling over your flip flops stick to the sidewalk a little as you slowly walk on by https://youtu.be/qiNKSIX37f8

Unk P,

Decidedly, a rusty old swing set and the music we swing by!

You obviously are musically gifted energetically in hearing the unwritten words and feelings within music.

Synchronistically, I'd recently listened to "Silencium" (your link being to "Silentium" spelled with t--a different song).

And after Gaelynn Leas's "Someday..." song with its amazing erhu sounding violin at the beginning, (my daughter studied violin as a young girl and we discovered the erhu in that process).

I went on to listen to her talking about "Amazing Grace" and how when she was singing it to her grandfather in hospice after his not haven spoken in days, how he began to softly join in.

So moving to even think about.

It brought back to her his once saying that music is one of the first things babies respond to--and one of the dying's last.

That was my connecting link to the last song link I'd saved for myself.

The opening song for the BBC's 21 seasons series of "Silent Witness". A crime series basically about life and death in its most raw forms contrasted with this very ethereal opening song written by John Harle titled "Silencium", and once again with violins.

AND synchronistically, there are fractal images at both the beginning and the end in this youtube version. (Make sure beginning arrow is at very beginning).

Lovely, ethereal and deeply moving, I had to really search to find the original version with lyrics throughout instead of the truncated version that the producers switched to by the last 21st season.  Apparently, that infuriated music fans and made a great stir in the UK.

Ah, the powers of music!

Link to lyrical version

The lyrics if anyyone wonders are:

Silence and sleep
Like fields
Of amaranth lie

Very old are the woods
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs
When March winds wake

So old with their beauty are
Oh no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose

Very old are the brooks
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold
Beneath the azure skies

Sing such a history of come and gone
Sing such a history of come and gone
Of come and gone

Silence and sleep
Like fields
Of amaranth lie

Very old are the woods
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs
When March winds wake

Very old are we men
Our dreams are tales
Told in dim Eden
By Eve's nightingales

Very old are the brooks
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps cold
Beneath the azure skies

Sing such a history of come and gone
Sing such a history of come and gone
Come and gone, come and gone
Sing such a history of come and gone
Sing such a history of come and gone
Sing such a history of come and gone
Of come and gone

We wake and whisper a while
But the day gone by

Silence and sleep
Like fields
Of amaranth lie

Come and gone

 

Lovely music of Silencium.

Michele, that is a beautiful song and the lyrics are so poetic!