new Mazzy Star...

...well new for me anyway!  i'm only about a year behind, which is pretty good for me lately haha!  this single came out late 2011 i beleive, with a subsequent new album apparently to be released in late 2012.... ah Hope, you take me back to those early 90's places when anything seemed possible.... it's the kind of music that just demands you turn the lights off, throw a sheer scarf over a lamp and put some candles on....lay on the floor on cushions with summer night breezes wafting in through open windows and gauzey curtains.... ahh  my night just got a little mellower... ;-)

 

 

Changes...

It's a full moon & lunar eclipse tonight hooray! And there are big shifts & changes afoot for many people... Bob said it best once upon a time...

Earth-Love-Music....

Biophilia....  

This is the title of Björk's new album, which speaks of a "love for nature in all her manifestations"  and "a restless curiosity, an urge to investigate and discover the elusive places where we meet nature"....  All this and an introduction from Sir David Attenborough! I'm in heaven! 

 "The biophilia hypothesis suggests that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems'"  ... I am excited by the fact that this idea has been explored in musical form and can't wait to hear the results. 

 I love the idea of the songs being created around a kind of 'Solar System' structure that is housed within the 'Mother'.  I love how Björk is unafraid of exploring new technologies and collaborating with other artists with new ideas.  Some performers can become so insular in their process, and I think sometimes their work can suffer for it.  The new song below Cosmogony, is a retelling of creation myths from around the world.... Stunning!

I look forward to this multi-layered audio-visual extravaganza as Björk breaks new expressive ground and reminds us all of what we're capable of as Humans, but also of how close to the Source we really can be...

 "We are on the brink of a revolution that will unite Humans with Nature.... until we get there, prepare, explore Biophilia."

Sonic Reverie...

I am whole...

....And I hold the night....

If ever a spell was cast over the Sydney Opera House, it must have been by the mystical creatrix Natasha Khan and her music project Bat for Lashes .... Here she is back in June of this year,  performing in a lantern-lit stage forest.... conjuring new tunes in her concert hall cauldron... Powerful - Vulnerable - Magical! 
Great night, great memories!
Words to live by....