What are you listening to?

Ghost of Tom Joad (Rage Against the Machine version)

The highway is alive tonight
Nobody's foolin' nobody as to where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad


https://youtu.be/iqnMrynpq9U

Excellent song and this is a very creative and moving video, too. Reminded of the song while reading this SOTT article:

Right now, there are more than 100 million Americans that get some sort of assistance from the federal government every month. Government dependence is at a level that we have never seen before in U.S. history, and it is going to get a lot worse.

If we get to a point where the government is either unwilling or unable to take care of all of these people, we are going to have a massive societal problem on our hands. More than a third of the people living in our nation cannot independently take care of themselves, and more Americans are falling out of the middle class every single day. When the welfare state starts breaking down, the chaos that will ensue will be far worse than most people would dare to imagine.

Real numbers prove US economy similar to Great Depression - and it's getting worse
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This is wholesale butchery.
 
Soviet Patriotic Song - "Let's go!" ("В путь!")

https://youtu.be/cW38y4AFGyI​
До́лгие про́воды -- ли́шние слёзы.​
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Один вниз, многие пойти
Может Бог скорость​
 
Not so much listening to, but watching this floating-step routine of a Russian folk dance known as "Berezka." How the women achieve this effect is said to be a secret that they're not allowed to share. Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQkmqK5U5Uo
 
Buddy said:
Not so much listening to, but watching this floating-step routine of a Russian folk dance known as "Berezka." How the women achieve this effect is said to be a secret that they're not allowed to share. Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQkmqK5U5Uo
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Wow, beautiful and mesmerizing!
 
The October 10th session reminded me of this Tame Impala song from their latest album "Currents":

Tame Impala - Yes I'm Changing

Lyrics:
I was raging, it was late
In the world my demons cultivate
I felt the strangest emotion but it wasn't hate, for once
Yes I'm changing, yes I'm gone
Yes I'm older, yes I'm moving on
And if you don't think it's a crime you can come along, with me
Life is moving, can't you see
There's no future left for you and me
I was holding and I was searching endlessly
But baby, now there's nothing left that I can do so
So don't be blue
There is another future waiting there for you
I saw it different, I must admit
I caught a glimpse, I'm going after it
They say people never change, but that's bullshit, they do
Yes I'm changing, can't stop it now
And even if I wanted I wouldn't know how
Another version of myself I think I found, at last
And I can't always hide away
Curse indulgence and despise the fame
There's a world out there and it's calling my name
And it's calling yours, girl it's calling yours too
It's calling yours too, it's calling yours too, it's calling yours too
It's calling out for you

Arise and walk, come through
Someone beyond that door is calling out for you
Arise and walk, come through
It's calling out for you
Arise and walk, come through
A World beyond that door is calling out for you


https://youtu.be/QhlPXa6g4C8
 
https://youtu.be/LEaJcJqt2Q0

Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming

I need my conscience to keep watch over me
To protect me from myself
So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head
When I walk into the promised land
We've been too long American dreaming
I think we've all lost the way
Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal
In the dark
I'm in love with an American girl
Well, she's my best friend
I love her surreptitious smile
That hides the pain within her
And we'll go dancing in the rings of laughter
And leave alone by the shores
Feel alone in the brands of rapture
And leave alone for the loss
Yeah, on the lea the rising wind blows
Yeah, on the lea the rising wind blows
How long? How long?
Here alone on the grounds of allegiances
We've left behind
Turned back by the foot of the doorway
Never lost and found
We've been too long American dreaming
I think we've all lost the heart
Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal
In the dark
Yeah, on the lea the rising wind blows
Yeah, on the lea the rising wind blows
How long? How long?
 
I've always loved this piece by Villa-Lobos, so full of colour, and so descriptive too, the way it struggles to get going at first and then begins to flow.

Interesting to note too the very young age of the musicians, a reminder within the context of the Forum and our work together here that it really doesn't matter what age we are or where we think we are on the path, everyone can contribute to the whole and that if everybody plays together in harmony then many things become possible. It requires everyone playing their part together, no matter how big or how small, in order to 'make music'. :)

The Little Train of the Caipira, Heitor Villa-Lobos. The National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain

 
Interesting. Well at the moment I was reading some old English poetry and I wanted to hear how it sounds. So I was listening to this actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwmd1IFshYc
 
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