28/13 - Unfold In A Generous Way

A week in Sweden has refilled my heart. My friends' children, the beauty of nature, the comfort of family... Love feels closer. Cynicism and anxiety are on a break.

Björk - Undo

Hello, Vespertine old friend. How many times will you need to caress my brain and re-teach me these lessons? It's not meant to be a strife. 

I'm praying to share me.

Broken Bells - The High Road

...but the high road is hard to find.
Broken Bells is an album well worth a revisit. I find it has matured beautifully, like a fine wine really. For a side-project, its songs sound remarkably like full-bodied statements and its sentimental weight only grows in hindsight.

 

Roberta Flack - Go Up Moses

For once I found that someone else has already written a minor essay around this commanding fighter-track, so allow me to simply cut in on that:

Co-written by Flack, Dorn and Jesse Jackson(!), and is an answer to the traditional spiritual Go Down Moses. It exhorts Black America to quit begging off Pharoah and just let HIM go. Powerful stuff, delivered in this kind of spooky 'night-tripper' groove that just keeps building...

John Smith - A Long Way For A Woman

This was on my iTunes. Mark must have put it there. Another in a long line of revivalists of course, but when the song and the playing is this solid, I don't care whether it was made in 2010 or 1960 or 1910. More to learn here.

Jo Stafford - No Other Love

This song is not about silly love. This song is about sitting by a lake at dusk, watch the swallow swoop and the goose glide, see the treetops reflected in perfect stillness and feel everything at once. Despite what logic tells you; life is love and this song is eternal. Maybe I should go religious.
Also, check out the instrumental version.