What are you listening to?

Oh, someone put up the Beatles here. I sang this song in music therapy 36 years ago when I was in a closed ward for bipolar disorder. I guess this was "prophetic" too.

お、ビートルズ貼ってる人が居るね。36年前、双極性障害で閉鎖病棟に居た時に、音楽療法でこれを歌った。これも「予言的」だったんだなあ。

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"Blackbird" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney. When discussing the song, McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and by racial tension in the Southern United States.

 

"The Other Half"

Air full of feathers
Fluttering distant laughter
Air full of signs & strange magic
Planets aligned in warning
Trap door sprung beneath me
And I'm falling
But I'm rising..
Downwards into blue sky
I'm rising

Downwards into blue sky
Re-entering the earth
Comet's tail behind me
Signaling a birth
The northern lights, all burning
Hot & cold at the same time
My spirit, white & liquid
And I have learned & I am learning
But I'm rising
Downwards into blue sky
I'm rising
Downwards into blue sky

I am the other half
And you are what I am for
I won't lie to you or hurt you
I'm not like that anymore

I am with you all the time now
One soul. One mind. One heart.
The other half cannot be parted
From the other half
From the other half
 
The staircase pyramid is a UFO terminal! I read in an e-mail from Mario Miro himself that it is the handiwork of a man named Peter Ledger, a talented artist who is well known to all who know him. This guitar play is strikingly similar to "Do-enka" in Japan. Be careful not to listen too much.

階段状ピラミッドはUFOのターミナル！知る人ぞ知る実力派アーティストのピーター・レッジャーという人の手になるものだとマリオ・ミーロ本人からのメールに書いてありました。これは、日本で言えば「ド演歌」というやつ。聞き過ぎにご注意。

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Sebastian Hardie were Australia's first symphonic rock band. They formed in Sydney in 1967 as Sebastian Hardie Blues Band but dropped the 'Blues Band' reference when they became pop-oriented. By 1973 they developed a more progressive rock style, and later performed as Windchase, but disbanded in 1977…A later member, Mario Millo (lead guitar, mandolin, vocals) became a multi-award winner for his television and movie music.

This song is called “Gypsy” from the album
Symphinity
(As Windchase)
Released: 1976
Format: LP, Cassette
Label: Infinity (L 36216)

 
"Tales from Topographic Oceans" from the Music Group, "YES", is a deeply philosophical album. I would add, that is not for the meditative faint of heart. While much music is created to be toe tapping and easy to sing to, "Tales" is in that genre usually called progressive rock, in a additional sub-genre that requires intense analysis to understand, compared to reading book very slowly and thoughtfully. The result is an Album that is inaccessible and incomprehensible to a casual listener. In order to understand the music you must read the lyrics (*) and listen, and listen, and then listen some more. Even then, you might fail to gain a glimmer of the Group's intent, and would have to qualify as one of the most, if not the most deeply complicated rock music ever created. Again, if you are a casual listener the complexity of the music can be frustrating or boring. However, if you consider that classical music is often complex, and to be understood requires extended focused listening, it should be of little surprise that Yes took that complexity for its own in the development of this music, creating a symphony in four movements.

The first movement is titled "The Revealing Science of God: Dance of the Dawn." The opening lyric/chant only seem to have no meaning, and paradoxically, they have meaning. Confusing? Yes, but please, understand the point of the movement is to get the listener to realize that there are bits and pieces of knowledge, and understanding is something that rarely, if ever, comes all at once. I would like to present the opening text as a teaser to other text to come, which was interestingly referenced to in Seth's Library on “The Origins of the Universe and of the Species” – An Integral Conscious Creation Myth Introduction and reads as the following:

“Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
“Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
“Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
“Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole.
“Dawn of thought transfered through moments of days undersearching earth
“Revealing corridors of time provoking memories, disjointed but with purpose,
“Craving penetrations offer links with the self instructors sharp
“And tender love as we took to the air, a picture of distance.
“Dawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
“Expression, as only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
“Late into corners, and we danced from the ocean.
“Dawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
“Won't to follow, only tunes of a different age.
“As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.”

~ YES, Tales of Topographic Oceans, 1974.

The second movement is "The Remembering: High the Memory". This song is about the breath of knowledge that is available to humankind and to any one individual. The song is trying to say that while that knowledge is available, each of us can only access that knowledge when it becomes a part of our personal knowledge, realms of knowledge potentially available to each of us.

The third movement is "The Ancient: Giants under the Sun". To access forgotten knowledge from civilizations that came before. To evoke those earlier cultures, knowledge is made up of many parts from many people. All the cultures and civilizations that may no longer exist, but that understanding is still available if we know where and how to look for it.

The fourth and final movement is "Ritual: Nous Sommes Du Soleil" is a description of the human condition. Part of that knowledge and understanding is the constant struggle between good and evil, and how that struggle plays a part of how we view that knowledge. We have the ability learn and to understand granted by a higher power. I really hope interested persons find the time, to listen deeply, and dream of going home. Peace, Love, and Laughter to All.

00:00 - The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)
22:22 - The Remembering (High the Memory)
43:00 - The Ancient (Giants under the Sun)
1:01:36 - Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil)

(*) Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans Album | Lyrics.com
 
"People Get Ready" has a long tradition of Black American freedom songs that use train imagery, which dates back to the 1920s and arrival of the "Golden Gate Quartet" (Which is still on tour today). The song written and composed by the late Curtis Mayfield, (who died from a freak falling stage light accident? :umm:), was Gospel influenced and appeared during social and political unrest from the Civil Rights Movement with MLK. Hundreds of Artist have done "Covers" and classic farewell to Beck's life and contribution to the song and Bon Voyage expression of good wishes. The deeper meaning for the song and spiritualist idea that once the human body expires, how soul then begins it's journey into the next life adventure. Here is a song with the same "Train imagery" that speaks to of us who are still left behind, that we should get our house in order, because the train is gonna be here tonight.
 
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