What are you listening to?


High vibration go on
To the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
Past a mortal as me
Where can I be?
Wish the sun to stand still
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past all mortal as we
Here we can be
Here we can be
Suns high streams through
Awaken gentle mass touch
Awaken gentle mass touch
Strong dreams reign here
Awaken gentle mass touch
Awaken gentle mass touching
Awaken gentle mass touch
Star, song, age, less
Awaken gentle mass touch
Awaken gentle mass touching
Awaken gentle mass touching
Touching
Touching
Touching
Workings of man set to ply out historical life
Reregaining the flower of the fruit of his tree
All awakening, all restoring you
Workings of man crying out from the fire set aflame
By his blindness to see that the warmth of his being
Is promised for his seeing his reaching so clearly
Workings of man driven far from the path
Rereleased in inhibitions so that all is left for you
All is left for you, all is left for you
All this left for you now
Master of images
Songs cast a light on you
Hark through dark ties
That tunnel us out
Of sane existence
In challenge as direct
As eyes see young stars assemble
Master of light
All pure chance
As exists cross divided
In all encircling mode
Oh closely guided plan
Awaken in our hearts
Master of soul
Set to touch all impenetrable youth
Ask away
That thought be contact
With all that's clear
Be honest with yourself
There's no doubt, no doubt
Master of time
Setting sail over all of our lands
And as we look forever closer
Shall we now bid
Farewell, farewell
High vibration go on
To the sun, oh let my heart dreaming
Past a mortal as me
Where can I be?
Wish the sun to stand still
Reaching out to touch our own being
Past all mortal as we
Here we can be
Like the time I ran away
And turned around
And you were standing close to me
Like the time I ran away
And turned around
And you were standing close to me

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Songwriters: Jon Anderson / Steve James Howe
Awaken lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc
 
R.I.P. Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)

Jesse Malin (ft. Lucinda Williams) - "Shane"​


Well they pulled you out of your hospital bed
To take you down to the show
And people came from all around to hear those songs that they know
Feel like there's an angel hanging on your shoulder
Growing up in London, want to die in Dublin
Everybody sends their love
From the West End streets and the hustlers and whores
To touching down in New York
And the Irish cops and the junk on the street
Had everything you could want
Drinking with the angels until the early morning
All those dirty faces filling up your pages
Gonna keep on running, they said you'd never make it
Everybody sends their love
Well I got myself on a flight across
From Texas over the sea
And I felt so lost didn't know what to say
Standing in the wings
Feel like there's an angel hanging on my shoulder
Getting kind of nervous talking to a stranger
Gonna tell your story, playing Death or Glory
Everybody sends their love
Don't deny it
 
Nobuyuki Tsujii, a blind pianist
Nobuyuki Tsujii - Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18

Not quite getting why the pianist was moving his head so much and had closed eyes all the time, I looked him up on the Wiki:
Nobuyuki Tsujii (辻井 伸行, Tsujii Nobuyuki) (also known as Nobu Tsujii) is a Japanese pianist and composer. He was born blind due to microphthalmia. Tsujii performs extensively, with a large number of conductors and orchestras, and has received critical acclaims as well as notices for his unique techniques for learning music and performing with an orchestra while being unable to see.
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Tsujii said in a 2011 interview, "I learn pieces by listening, but it doesn't mean I'm copying CDs or another person's interpretation. I ask my assistants to make a special cassette tape for me. They split the piece into small sections, such as several bars, and record it (one hand at a time). I call these tapes 'music sheets for ears.' It takes me a few days to complete a short piece, but it takes one month to complete a big sonata or concerto."[13]
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Performance technique[edit]
In 2017, a reporter from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Monique Schafter, asked Tsujii "How do you stay in time when you can't see the conductor?" The pianist replied: " By listening to the conductor's breath and also sensing what's happening around me." The late conductor Bramwell Tovey commented: "He must have very acute hearing, I'm sure."[14]

At a 2023 BBC Proms concert, BBC Radio 3 narrator Martin Handley asked conductor Domingo Hindoyan whether he has to adjust to Tsujii's blindness in any way. Hindoyan replied, "I don't do anything different, absolutely not anything. We worked as I'd work with any soloist. And, probably the fact that he has a special way to learn pieces -- he learns them in a way that is so logical, and he is extremely sensitive. So, he really feels every instrument and every breath from myself, from the concert master and from the orchestra. It's just like he understands the piece from the very soul of it, from very deep. It's really fantastic." [15]
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Respect, my hat is off for such an achievement.
 
Gaz Williams, bass player extraordinaire and all round techie enthusiast, does a 5am live jam on his new Yamaha CP. I have one of these instruments, and they're a world of experimentation due to them having a set of on-board effects units. Wah Wah, tremelo, chorus, phaser, analogue delay, digital delay, it's got the lot. You can also hook up an external reverb pedal and go to town in feedback heaven. Considering he's improvising on a new keyboard completely off the cuff, at 5am, just brilliant. An interesting bloke in fairness, his YT channel is brilliant.

 
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