Elevator Music

A tune with no more substance than the air,
performed on underwater instruments,
is proper to this short lift from the earth.
It hovers as we draw into ourselves
and turn our reverent eyes toward the lights
that count us to our various destinies.
We're all in this together, the song says
and later we'll descend. The melody
is like a name we don't recall just now
that still keeps on insisting it is there.

Henry Taylor

Excuse the delay!

Hopefully the music below and this video of Hermeto Pascoal traveling to sonic planets will fasten you with great happiness! I hope.

Anouar Brahem "Thimar" 1998 (ECM)

Talwin (192 kbps)

Anouar Brahem (Tunisia's Keith Jarrett)-Oud
Dave Holland-Double Bass

Andy Bey "Experience and Judgement" 1973 (Atlantic)

Hibiscus (192 kbps) Baby making bassline.

Andy Bey-Vocals
Bill Fischer-Organ, Piano, Electric Piano
George Davis-Guitar
Wilbur Bascomb-Bass Guitar
Buddy Williams-Drums

Lee Morgan "The Last Session" 1971 (Blue Note)

Some incredible modal funkiness. It was the last recorded session before the beloved trumpet player past from this rock.

Capra Black (320 kbps)

Lee Morgan-Trumpet
Grachan Moncur III-Trombone
Bobbi Humphrey-Flute
Billy Harper-Tenor Sax
Harold Mabern-Piano
Reggie Workman-Bass
Freddy Watts-Drums

RAW

DOKTOR SNAKE : When the ideas of quantum physics are eventually assimilated into everyday culture, how do you think they will effect the man or woman in the street?
RAW : I think that when the ideas of model agnosticism, the Uncertainty Principle, fuzzy logics, etc, become generally known it will cause a social revolution bigger and more global than the Renaissance or the Age of Enlightenment. I have no prediction of how soon this will occur... If I judged by the people I meet on my lecture tours, I'd say it has already happened. But if I judged by that statistical sample I'd assume marijuana legalization would have happened already, too, none of our recent wars would have occurred, and televangelists couldn't get any audience except on the Comedy Channel.

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font.
The firefly waken; waken thou with me.

Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake.
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cosmic Eye "Dream Sequence" 1972 (Regal Zonophone)

Three tracks from the rare "indo-jazz" album. Feelin funky, feelin sultry yaow.

Part 1

Part 4

Part 8

(320 kbps)

A. D' Silva- Guitar
V. Jasani-Sitar
J. Mayer-Violin
R. Swinfield-Flute
D. Grossman-Alto Flute
C. Taylor-Bass Flute
A. Branscobme-Saxophone, Percussion
T. Campo-Electric Bass
K. Sati-Tabla
D. Wright-Drums

Joe Henderson "The Elements" 1974 (Milestone)

Earth (256 kbps)

Joe Henderson-Sax, Flute
Alice Coltrane-Piano, Harp, Tamboura, Harmonium
Michael White-Violin
Charlie Haden-Bass
Leon Chancler-Drums
Kenneth Nash-Percussion