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

Tour

Near a shrine in Japan he's swept the path
and then placed camellia blossoms there.

Or--we had no way of knowing--he's swept the path
between fallen camellias.

Carol Snow

Triosk meets Jan Jelinek "1+3+1" 2003 (~scape)

Vibes/Pulse

Triosk (Australian)
Jan Jelinek (German)

Paul Berliner "The Sun Rises Late Here" 1979 (Flying Fish)

Zimbabwe (256 kbps)

Paul Berliner-Vocals, Mbira, Foot Bells
Steve Eisen-Soprano Sax
Eric Hochberg-Bass
Paul Wertico-Traps
Howard Levy-Sticks









(Couldn't find a picture of the album,
and unfortunately I don't own a camera)

The Hand

The teacher asks a question.
You know the answer, you suspect
you are the only one in the classroom
who know the answer, because the person
in question is yourself, and on that
you are the greatest living authority.
but you don't raise you hand.
You raise the top of your desk
and take out an apple.
You look out the window.
You don't raise your hand and there is
some essential beauty in your fingers,
which aren't even drumming, but lie
flat and peaceful.
The teacher repeats the question.
Outside the window, on an overhanding branch,
a robin is ruffling its feathers
and spring is in the air.

Mary Ruefle

Weather Report "Mysterious Traveler" 1974 (Columbia)

Scarlet Woman (320 kbps)

Josef Zawinul-Synthesizer, Electric Piano
Wayne Shorter-Alto Sax
Alphonso Johnson-Bass
Dom Um Romao-Percussion
Ishmael Wilburn-Drums

Spaceship Earth

"It is very important in disembarrassing ourselves of our vanity, short-sightedness, biases, and ignorance in general, in respect to universal evolution, to think in the following manner. I’ve often heard people say, ’I wonder what it would be like to be on board a spaceship," and the answer is very simple. What does it feel like? That’s all we have ever experienced. We are all astronauts."

Buckminster Fuller

Universal Robot Band-"Dance and Shake Your Tambourine" 1977 (P&P)

Dance and Shake Your Tambourine Patrick Adams (256 kbps)

It's Friday. Let us dance and "paaaaaaaahrtaaayyyyy, paaaaaaaaaahrtaaayyyyyy" squiggly synth lines and all.

Hugh Hopper/Alan Gowen "Two Rainbows Daily" 1980 (Cuneiform)

Seen Through A Door (268 kbps)

Hugh Hopper-Fender Bass, Efx
Alan Gowen-Mini Moogs, Fender Rhodes

I Know A Man

As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking,--John, I

sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what

can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,

drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going.

Robert Creeley

Michal Urbaniak Constellation "Super Constellation" 1973 (CBS)

Bengal (320 kbps)

Michal Urbaniak-Violectra, Soprano Sax
Urszula Dudziak-Voice, Percussion
Adam Makowicz-Keyboards
Wojciech Karolak-Hammond and Farfisa Organ
Czeslaw Bartkowski- Drums

"To jest zabawny tak, czlowiek ja kopac ono."

Poem

As the cat
climed over
the top of

the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot

carefully
then the hind
stepped down

into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot

William Carlos Williams