compared to what

If your musical pilgrimages this summer include days of crowds, camping and crawling insects, you don’t need this post. But if you’re missing out on all the big festivals, by luck or design, there’s a nice little trip through Bonnaroo 2007 in the following blog.
Major highlight: live, professional recording interspersed with the running commentary. Listen [...]

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Kit, David Hasselhoff? Modern house. Glass walls, cement floors, sparkling lights of the City. A Nagel original hanging from the wall.

It’s 1983. Summer night. Los Angeles. 77 degrees with a slight breeze. Super hot 6 foot Sharon Stone [...]

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Over the last week, the topic of Chicago-centric songs has come up a couple of times for me. Once, when setting up the video page and watching Hicks roll out “Sweet Home Chicago” with Keb’ Mo’ from last March. The other time was in the comments to the album art post, faithful reader Curious Joe [...]

“Mind-Blogglingly Deep Thoughts by Asstral”

I believe the effect music has on ones state of being, is directly associated with the feeling and energy that is being transferred to the listener via the musician as the conduit. The deeper the soul, the deeper the experience. Now whether the feeling is communicated through the sound of [...]

Growing up in the what household, there was a fair amount of music, but very little of it was recorded. That’s one of the reasons I was so fascinated with my dad’s collection of old Enrico Caruso 78s - at least I think that’s what they were (that’s Caruso in the picture, not dear papa [...]

#3 of the Trilogy
…And then there is the purposeful spiritual musical experience. The man that sings to his God. Like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Some small part of me sees him as Pakistan’s Van Morrison, maybe you’ll agree?

Maybe not.
For those WikiWiki curious minds: SPIN magazine listed him as one [...]

#2 of the Trilogy

Onto a much more cerebral musical experience. Leonard Cohen.
His thoughts are astute, for he is clearly a thinker - a man that lives in his mind vs. a man that lives in the feeling of his soul. Is this why the sound of this man makes me think, instead of [...]

#1 of the Trilogy
The power of great music. There’s nothing to see, just something to feel. Eyes closed is often the best way, optional or not. The soul feeling musical experience. Is it a coincidence that for what this man can not see, he can feel in an almost unexplainable profoundness?
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At some point in time music & cool became like salt & pepper, like Bill & Ted, like pot & brownies. So after some deep thoughts which continue to amaze my deep mind, my question is: does music make you feel cool? Now I don’t mean you feel cool, like you physically [...]