To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/08/14 00:06
Subject: [K-list] Music poll/Music synergy
From: Paul Perner
On 2001/08/14 00:06, Paul Perner posted thus to the K-list:
Mystress Angelique Serpent wrote:
> ........
> Depressed one day more than 10 years ago, Peter Gabriel's "Solisbury
> Hill" came on the radio.. blew me wide open and helped me make a decision I
> hadn't known I needed to make.
When your post came in I had early Peter Gabriel Genesis (not the later
Phil Collins mush) "Watcher of the Skies" from the Foxtrot album on my
player. A couple years ago after a path working ritual at the book shop,
our teacher sang the song that goes "All my instincts, they return...
and
the grand visage, so soon will burn..."
> ...........
> For the next few weeks Death/my Divine Beloved serenaded me with it,
> everytime I needed comfort is blasted me into ecstacy. It showed up in my
> head, often and seemed to be playing on the radio, everywhere I went!
> Hades was seducing me into ego death.
>
> "Seasons don't fear the reaper,
> nor do the wind the sun and the rain..
> ..............
Ah yes!!!
I heard this the day of my awakening. Talk about a *high!* All day I
was phasing between bliss and and heavy K psychosis. I was in a remote
rehab village and music was a real treat. A friend loaned me his
radio and "Don't Fear the Reaper" came on. It really sent me.
I also heard Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" and Kansas' "Dust in
the Wind." Hearing music when you are actually having your opening is
an incredible experience. Classical music of the grand, symphonic
kind is also amazing. I heard Beethoven and it was almost *too*
good. It was so emotionally intense I could barely handle it.
> Recently, guiding someone who had a dream of the Divine Beloved,
> interpreting.. into my head came one stanza of a Gordon Lightfoot song, "If
> you could read my mind, love".. so appropriate to the relationship of the
> DB, before its existence is embraced:
>
> "If you could read my mind, Love
> what a tale my thoughts would tell
> .............
Back in the 70's my bratty friends and I thought Lightfoot was for
squares. Just this year, on hearing the above song, I'm now a fan of
his. He's made some hauntingly beautiful music throughout his career.
> The song I always think of, for this list is Kate Bush, "deeper
> understanding".. "I turn to my computer, like a friend.."
>
We're on the same page, Mystress. I found Kate's tape in a used bin
and the first thing I thought of when I heard the above song was the
list... but kind of in a melancholic way. Most of us are alone
at night when we log on. I find many Kate Bush's songs to be kind of
singular... lonely and a tad spooky. It's actually my favorite genera.
"Ectophilic" is the term that has been coined for it... i. e., arty,
non-commercial music, mostly by female singers who have evolved their
own, unique esthetic. Jane Sibery is a good example.
> .........
> On the same album she does a music version of the "Lesser Banishing
> Ritual", even more magical in the video of the song in her video-movie, The
> Line, the Cross and the Curve: Young woman wishes to be a dancer, gets
> cursed with the Red Shoes and takes a walk through Hades.
'O how I wish everybody on this list could hear "Surround" by Funky
Gloworm. Unfortunately the band broke up last month and only left us
with a hard to find demo recording. "Surround" was a powerful banishing
ritual in the form of a rock song.
> The body-mind loves music. I dreamt of a delft-blue speckled horse, that
> was asking for music, the radio in a Rain-man like mumbly horse-voice..
> metaphor for the body.
> ......
Thank you for the vision. May our bodies dance and sing!
> There was a thread about a year ago, on what music is especially
> K-fired.. the results became an addition to the K-list cybrary.. David
> Bowie, Kate Bush and Hildegaard von Bingen are among my favorites.
I would add "One Clear Moment" by Linda Thompson (former wife of
British folk guitar legend Richard Thompson). It is literally
about spontaneous spiritual awakening. And it's the only recorded
song I know of that addresses the event directly. For me, it's the
K List theme song. I wish I could put it in some kind of Mp3 link
so everyone could enjoy it.
Thanks for sharing your musical encounters, Mystress. I really got
a rush when I read your account.
It's late and I should click off. I'll try to find time answer the poll
tomorrow as there was one instance, twenty five years ago, when music
actually triggered a life changing mystical experience for me.
Good Night.
Summer Love and Wild, Wild, Delf-Blue Speckled Horses,
Paul
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