An online magazine I subscribe to tells me it is World Music Day today and it shared this quote:
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”
Ludwig van Beethoven
I am currently sat at my local lido having had an early morning swim, so I can’t share anything right now.
The website tells me this day is about celebrating the universal language of music.
So, ‘Spillers, I say “get celebrating” and share something that you think speaks to us all no matter what our preferences or native tongue….
The 'Spill 
My kinda music. This is the title track of L Subramaniam’ s collaborative album, which has Larry Coryell, Stanley Clarke, Tom Scott and Ustad Allah Rakha among others.
“All I know is something like a bird within her sang
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on
Tell me all that you know
I’ll show you
Snow and rain”
Robert Hunter’s description of Janis Joplin’s voice (what kind of bird? A canary? An eagle?) is both inadequate (attempts to describe it as are substantial as snow and rain) and gloriously true. As is the band’s attempt to convey it’s musicality, lyricism and power.
This performance of Bird Song I feel has the ability to connect with any open heart and, being played on one of the hottest days of 1972, it also connects with a couple of other recent Spillposts….
Here’s some brand new heavy psych rock from Japan that I just can’t stop listening to at the moment! Turn on, Tune in, Turn up!!
Hibushibire – Trepanation Breakdown
https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/track/trepanation-breakdown
Obviously, the Shed Sessions album is the greatest collection of music recorded anywhere ever – but this is a later couple of tracks (not destroyed by AIDS or Warner Bros Music terrible production) enjoy – it is beautiful – there is nothing more pleasurable than a listen to the Bhundu Boys.
Bhundu Boys – Foolish Harp – Waerera
Love The Shed sessions and the Shabini album. I only saw the Bhundus once. In 1988 with Michelle Shocked, S.E. Rogie and the Rhythm Sisters. That was a wonderful evening.
That does sound like an excellent evening.
Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium. How can you not be moved by this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiBhZIaJsQ4
This is a question I’ve often asked myself and I still cannot comprehend the negative answer I always get !