What are you listening to?

Mark Knopfler - "One Deep River"​


Now the highway is sleeping
The plains are still
The steel rails are silent
Sun’s going down behind the hills
And the night comes falling
With the evening star
Wherever you’re going
Wherever you are

You are one deep river, old friend
One deep river, amen
You’re one deep river, old friend
One deep river, amen

The wild geese are flying
Into the west
And your soul is heading
To its rest
But your light will keep on burning
Like that evening star
And your song will keep returning
Wherever you are

You are one deep river, old friend
One deep river, amen
You’re one deep river, old friend
One deep river, amen

Mark Knopfler
 
Jimi Hendrix and his anti-war magnum opus Machine Gun. Probably the finest single piece of 20th Century Art. Says everything without many words, pure emotion. He twists and squalls every human inflection in a 12 minute work of genius.

My god, we lost out on decades of musical genius when he choked to death in 1970. Taken far too soon. His contribution to the great cosmic aggregate is without question. I often wonder what my old dead heroes are up to nowadays? Still chilling and contemplating on 5d I guess, maybe a new and more low-key incarnation perhaps? It's a fun mental exercise, which betrays my opinion that we're in dire need of some of this kind of fire in modern artwork too.

 
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