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"Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam"

16:31 / 16.09.01

It's Latin for the eighth verse of the fifth Psalm. In English, those words are, "Guide, O Lord, my God, my way in my sight". It is the first word in that sentence, Dirige that ultimatly gives us this word: Dirge.

I can't speak for everyone, but, for me, Music is life. The flights of the sparrows, the slap of the bass strings, the scratch of the turntable, the scurry of the hare, the shuffle of the feet, the beat of the drum. It's life! It's alive!!! "L'Chaim!!" It means "To Life!!" in Hebrew. Like, "You're alive!! Know that!! Live Large!!"

But.

It's times like these that I turn to music to ease my burden. To dilute the bad blood & bring peace & passion to my heart. To help me in ways words could never even hope to. I'm curious as to what kind of music is helping you through this heartache & sorrow. Normally, I'd post something like this in the music section, but I want that to be a realm/refuge seperate from the gravity of the massive loss that many of us are going through now. Many thanks.

17:34 / 16.09.01

Reggae - Bob Marley/ PeterTosh "War/Get up, stand up'

Any of Stevie Wonder's string of albums from "Talking Book" through to "Songs in the key of Life" - go listen to the original "Gangsta's Paradise" - "Pastime Paradise" with the Hare Krishna choir, for uplift.

Hard black soul.
Trying to keep it worldly.

[ 17-09-2001: Message edited by: agapanthus ]

18:06 / 16.09.01

Mike Oldfield's 'Songs from distant earth' album does it for me. There's a great mix of native chanty tracks and spacey tracks which always manage to have an uplifting effect.

03:42 / 17.09.01

i've been almost unable to listen to music, though the other day a took a break from cnn to play a delite album that really helped.

07:50 / 17.09.01

at first I listened to radiohead ad nauseum and got accused of wallowing - but I can honestly say that Kid A's "optimistic" has been ideal for giving me the will to believe that we can possibly get out of this and evolve instead of ending up throwing stones at each other.

08:16 / 17.09.01

Listened to Beatles' "Revolver" louda small while back. Cheered me up, it did. Paul McCartney's guitar solo on "Taxman" (you naughty Paul Weller

), well . . . . .

We're The Great Old Ones Now

10:50 / 17.09.01

Mercury, by the Ronsons, is my current fave track. Huge points if anyone can tell me where to buy it.

For classical, the Bach Cello suites (especially 1-3) are my mellow music, and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A is the one which always spoke to me as a kid.

11:41 / 17.09.01

It's been nothing but Killing Joke on the turntable all weekend, with a bit of Faith No More to lighten things up a bit.

14:58 / 18.09.01

been listening to the specials a lot this week.

'man at c&a' is particularly chilling, but so is 'you're wondering now', 'do the dog' and 'enjoy yourself'...

15:13 / 18.09.01

Been listening to the blazingly inappropriate John Cale--feral Welshman with a mind full of bombs and barbed wire: somehow I keep returning to "Leaving It All Up To You," which sounds like a dispatch from Ground Zero in its agony and anger, sliding into psychotic shrieking as it goes on:
quote:All the buildings are breaking down
Like the whispering in your heart
And it's sordid how life goes on
When I could be taking you apart--
And if you give me half a chance
I'd do it NOW! I'd do it now--RIGHT NOW, YOU FASCIST--!!Disturbing stuff, even on a good day--but today, when I'm watching an America that's begun to think like a gun, I'm wondering grimly about the rest of the year...

15:17 / 18.09.01

As a child of the Big Easy, Jazz is my comfort sound, especially trad jazz. Metallica's "Don't Tread on Me" has resonance.

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:15 / 20.09.01

PJ Harvey - Stories From The City...

Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

And the new Pulp album.

19:23 / 20.09.01

Is the new Pulp out? I thought it wasn't due for another month...which means for me in Noo Yawk another couple of months...

Love that band.

jUne, a sunshiny month

20:07 / 20.09.01

as usual, it's always the same shit which is giving me strenght to surface...
"music is my sanctuary" from gary Bartz.
a 1977 classic soul/jazz downtempo piece that rock the casbah, too.
ahhh.... music....
without it, were could we have been at the moment ?

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:24 / 20.09.01

quote:Originally posted by Ierne:
Is the new Pulp out?

No. Flatmate has a promo. Sorry... was being smug.

Look, here's a pic though, apparently it's called We Love Life...

[ 20-09-2001: Message edited by: The Flyboy ]

09:44 / 21.09.01

Originally posted by agsolutely:

Reggae - Bob Marley/ PeterTosh "War/Get up, stand up'

Yeah, me too! I just picked up a comp. of early Bob Marley & The Wailers, back when they were still playing Ska & Bob look more like Smokey Robinson's doppleganger than a Rastafarian. God, it's such beautiful, plaintive, gorgeous stuff. I was playing it on a boombox at work when a woman I've never even seen before came rushing in the room asking me what "What radio station is that?!" When I showed her the CD, the first words out of her mouth were "God, it's so beautiful!". So offered to tape it for her & told her to buy a tape with lots of time on it because I'd be adding lots of cool Reggae/Ska stuff at the end (y'know, Jimmy Cliff, The Clash, Toots & The Maytals, The Specials, The Slits, Peter Tosh, etc.). Man, if you can't spread joy & beauty at times like these, what good are you, y'know?

Hard black soul.
Trying to keep it worldly.

Yeah, especially Otis Redding. In many ways, Otis was almost the MLK, Jr. of Music. He had such a hard childhood & so many strikes against him, and yet, he succeed & never, ever let racism & poverty take a smile off of his face. I just wish I knew how I could write his widow, Zelma Redding, to let her know just how much his music & his example have enriched my life & given me hope at times like these. If anybody knows how I may come in contact with Zelma, I'd be in your debt.