To join To feel The cicada’s song -ancient Maori chant, first written down in 1853 ———————- There’s a species of cicada that emerges from underground only every 17 years. It does this to sing, mate and then die in the few weeks it has in the fresh air and leafy trees. Great swarms of these…
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School Bus Memories
It’s funny how we associate certain songs with certain times in our lives. There’s a whole batch of songs, that, whenever I hear them take me back to 1982 and riding the school bus to school each day. I was about 14 and the ride was about 20 minutes each way, through the rolling wooded…
Jabberwocky
“It seems very pretty”, she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are!…” – Alice, upon reading the “Jabberwocky” poem in Alice in Wonderland Of all the children’s literature published in the last…
My Bloody Valentine: “mbv”
My Bloody Valentine: “mbv” (2013) Swampy purple seismic gentle tsunamis of sound that reverberate and resonate on a molecular level. Hazy power tool washes of humming, purring, and grinding. Ghostly dancing voices weaving and twisting through thick guitar ignition voltage meters. Rising above and falling fathoms below into warm warping murky melting depths. She whispers…
The Disco Days (Daze?) of Rock
The other day, I stumbled upon an online article (including video clips) about a 1974 German TV appearance by rootsy rock band Dr. Hook. Dr. Hook is/was primarily known for their single “The Cover of the Rolling Stone” and their collaborations with sometime-children’s author Shel Silverstein. In the early 70’s Dr. Hook seemed a pretty…
Kate Bush’s “Never For Ever”
“A lot of people think it’s hilarious that all the ideas are coming out from under my skirt. But the good and bad things pour out of me in the form of music. It’s terrible, it comes out like diarrhoea! And it’s to hint that so much of it comes from a sexual need, from…
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