--- Lucy Hone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dare I admit this? IS IT TIME FOR ME TO MAKE A > REVELATION.....Oh will I be > de-listed..WILLL MY FRIENDS NEVER MAIL ME AGAIN?. AS > I FACE MY NEMESIS I > SALUTE YOU AND THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ALLOWED ME > THIS BRIEF TIME OF HAPPY > TOGETHERNESS..... > > Me and Hejira... the album.... > > I was given a "burned copy" of Hejira last year and > only started to listen to > the album when I joined the list...(December last > year). > > The words to the songs (those that I have read) on > Hejira are wonderful... but > musically it does not do a lot for me. All that > fretless bass wobbling > about...
Just my opinion but maybe you ARE trying too hard. Hejira isn't one of my favourites either, but I think you have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to it and you have to make time to hear the whole thing. (You don't have to, but it helps.) Hejira isn't something you can listen to as background music, nor is it something you should think too much about while listening. You have to let it sneak up on you. It's meditation music, but not meditation of the passive kind. You have to be in a particular state of mind. I don't think I'm doing a very good job of explaining this - it's something I call "slipping sideways". It's the thing that happens when you go into a sort of trancelike state while still awake. It's what happens when you're writing and the writing takes over; or when you're doing something like running or bicycling and you go into that "zone" thing. I suggest you put it aside for a while and then try it again later. Ideally you should play it without letting yourself know you're going to (?!) - that's a bit of a challenge. Do it spur of the moment - don't plan it too much ahead. (Really not looking forward to going out today as we've been plunged back into the deep freeze today after being teased with above freezing temps yesterday. Could be a good Hejira-listening day though.) ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
