Funny time of the year, this. Today is very dark and very wet - nothing much happening apart from the occasional tractor fighting through the mud, on its way to prepare the fields for next year. Now there's an act of faith - worth thinking about.
This morning I've been listening to Jan Garbarek, which captured something in my mood and the general vibe of the season. If you have a few minutes for a listen, click here for something very ancient and very northern; something watching from afar to see how we are getting on with our after-Christmas sales, and our pandemic.
Expanding my musical horizons again! Very mellow. Big yellow bright thing in the sky here today - lifts the mood a tad.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s not to like about a touch of mellow saxophone….
ReplyDeleteAs for the weather… Dull with a touch of grey… big yellow bright thing is promised for next week/year…
All the best. Aly
Blimey, that hits the spot, doesn't it? Didn't understand a word of it, but touches something deep down.
ReplyDeleteApparently this is Garbarek's arrangement of a traditional Norwegian song (hymn?) from the area near Sognefjord, north of Bergen. The singer is Agnes Buen Garnås - I seem to have met her in a former lifetime.
ReplyDeleteWow! As Chris says, hits the spot.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like in the background there’s one of those old portable organs that you pedal to pump air through.
That was stunning thanks for extending my musical horizons a little further. That was one of those pieces that although I'm certain I have never heard before makes me feel like I'm certain I have. Probably sitting in a circle of firelight in a small hall while wondering what is prowling around in the shadows beyond the flickering light of the fire.
ReplyDeleteI saw Garbarek with his group at the Edinburgh Queen's Hall in Goodness-Knows-When. The band included Rainer Bruninghaus, Eberhard Weber and (I think) Nana Vasconcelos - Garbarek looks like a character from Tolkien anyway, and the hall was deliberately almost dark, with the music rattling around a fjord somewhere, I kept peeking nervously about, just to check that I was still in the QH and there were other people there...
ReplyDeleteVery spooky indeed.