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Sanctuary Nov 22, 2010 07:45:37

Replying to Sweep

Sweep wrote:

Thanks. That's interesting, and I didn't know about it. It's interesting to hear someone talking a different musical language about the same thing and yet making sense although the overall effect is totally different.

There's also Julian Cope and Thighpaulsandra's Avebury album, of course. Different again. That's always sounded like an interesting first take of something that needs more work, though, to me.

How interesting that in a Ley Line discussion where we have seen so many different takes on the subject that we now see music coming in which is also interpreted in differing ways. What is right for one person would not be considered by another although the underlying themes remain the same.
Sweep, do you think that people such as yourself who seem to have an affinity with ley lines has this same deep feeling with music and the two are somehow connected in a shall we call it 'spiritual' way? Hope that makes sense.

The Sea Cat Nov 22, 2010 08:17:54

Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:

Sweep wrote:

There's also Julian Cope and Thighpaulsandra's Avebury album, of course. Different again. That's always sounded like an interesting first take of something that needs more work, though, to me.

Sorry to but in, but that's a very interesting point. I think my very first post here was along similar lines eg Robin Williamson's solo work, in particular his Celtic Harp/Bardic material, to use but one example. There are many individual choices re. particular music that seems to work very well and resonate with sacred sites, invoking Coleridge's Secondary Imagination perhaps .

goffik Nov 22, 2010 10:01:30

Replying to Sanctuary

I do hope you're not suggesting that people who are into Earth Mysteries have better or broader taste in music! :D

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Sweep Nov 22, 2010 14:17:35

Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:

Sweep, do you think that people such as yourself who seem to have an affinity with ley lines has this same deep feeling with music and the two are somehow connected in a shall we call it 'spiritual' way? Hope that makes sense.

I think this discussion is developing nicely from different perspectives anyway, but while this is a direct question to me:

Music's a strange thing. Sometimes it's part of a person's whole response to life, and if they're responsive to earth energies then that'll have its bearing on the music. But they may be responsive to completely different things, of course. And some musicians don't seem very responsive to anything much, and that shows in the music. On the other hand you can have people who are only deeply responsive to things inthe music, and its their way of connecting with their feelings.

I suppose this opens out into the wider and equally contentious areas of what we mean by terms like `spiritual.' To me, we need these words because they indicate something, but they're difficult because they're so vague. Like `earth energies' themselves, really. I don't know what they are and I was sceptical about them for many years. But in the absense of a better and more accurate term we can at least indicate a vague area with a term like that. Ditto words like `spiritual.' And maybe even `music' should be regarded as a vague indicative term. It certainly seems to mean a lot of different things. :D

So yes, your question makes sense to me and I think it's a good one, but it indicates how much complexity there is under these general terms we all use.