And so, last Sunday, another music legend passed away, the incomparable Mr. Lou Reed. And despite the fact that I’d never met the man or even seen him perform live, his death shook me to my core. I’d been quite a fan of Mr. Reed and had spent many moments of my life with his ...
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I’ve always felt the power of music and the way it brings people together. It’s quite an amazing force when you think about it. If you’ve ever been to a festival or concert or any kind of performance, especially if it’s a great one, the energy that is emitted is incredible. You go away feeling ...
I am currently in a very interesting phase of my life at the moment and have been doing things I have not done in a long long time. Namely, sitting down at the piano and rather than use it as a tuning fork for my voice, have actually been sitting down and playing it. I’ve ...
I don’t listen to music very much anymore. There is simply not a lot of space for it left. Only when I type letters on my screen like NOW, or in some short break or in some accident! Still many different kinds of music reaches me. And though listening to music has changed in many ...
I am finding it increasingly fascinating how we as humans are interconnected. Not only with each other and with the world around us, but also within ourselves, like a mini ecosystem you might say. Not so much physically, as in the foot bone’s connected to the leg bone and such, but more, metaphysically. How circumstances ...
At first it was swimming of Mr Yr and me in vast sessions of detailistic playing which were long and very enjoyable, but irregular. It wasn’t until this year that we started to play regularly for a longer period of time and Miss BlackMary joined us. Now let me get back to the novice part ...
In a world much, much bigger than ours and so different that everything is almost the same, one could hear silence and the roaring void. It was dark and comfortable as in Kosmos. We are more than most happy that Space Chistmas story, another creature from the wonderful world of fantastic beings, is brought to ...
Fast forward to about two to three years later, my parents finally taught me how to manipulate their record player and play records on it. As you may gather from their jobs, they weren’t intellectual people who listened to Bach or Beethoven or anything even slightly highbrow. But I at the time was more than ...