Hi,
There are some things, that I always come back to ... it seems ... and they always pick me up and inspire something or other, if I am down. No order needed here.
R & L Thompson -- Night Comes In (Live More or Less)
R & L Thompson -- Calvary Cross (Live More or Less)
Fairport Convention -- Reynardine (Liege and Leif)
Fairport Convention -- One More Chance (Rising For The Moon) ... and the remastered album has a piano version of this by Sandy alone that is ... insanely scary and spooky.
Carmen -- The Gypsies (from their 3rd and last album)
Guru Guru -- Dag's birth day (from Dance of the Flames)
Amon Duul 2 -- Apocaliptyc Bore (from Vive La Trance)
Spirit -- Space Child/When I Touch You (From 12 Dreams)
Jefferson Airplane -- Have You Seen the Saucers (Promo/Was on an album and I have not seen this on a CD yet)
The Doors -- The Soft Parade (from the same album)(the one piece of theirs that is totally literary and not compromised by anything!)
The Doors -- When the Music is Over
Egberto Gismonti -- Bailarina (Magico with Charlie Haden and Jan Garbarek)
Terje Rypdal -- Mirage and Adagietto (from EOS with David Darling)
Ash Ra Tempel -- Ocean of Tenderness (New Age of Earth)
Peter Hammill -- A Way Out (Out of Water)
These are things, that to me, are not "empty", and in many ways, they personify me really close, and one of the neatest things in there, is that Richard Thompson features in 3 of them ... and to me, this is a tribute to a quality and feeling, that is probably a lot more than just playing an instrument, and sometimes I find this hard to explain here. I live for these expressions and these words, and this feeling ... and if I get close enough to it in my life, I will be a very happy man. Alone, but not lonely, and with many poems and lots of writing. Almost all of these are a very intense "poem" ... a "live" poem ... and to me, some folks are always "alive" in their work, and it could be how seriously things have affected them, and it is very visible in Richard, although (as an example), if you listen to Mimi Farina's original song, it is so far and away in feeling and understanding ... and no less beautiful in its own way ... it's done acapella. WHICH makes Richard's and Sandy's version absolutely magnificent and one of the most original renditions of this piece ... it doesn't even fit the word "folk" ... that's how strong it is.
Thanks for the memories ... though Bapu would think this is just a nostalgia trip ... it's just a reality and a true feeling, and to me this is the difference between notes and music.
post edited by Moshkito - 2015/09/18 16:45:14