Dante’s Prayer by Loreena McKennitt can do it for me.
Music that has a hold of me beyond understanding
I just took a musical bath. I listened, for the umpteenth time, to Puccini's La Boheme. I can't begin to understand how someone could ever create such a thing of beauty. There are many 'songs' that compete in their individual beauty, but no other opera, play, or body of singing that even comes close, for me. You?
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In popular music i can listen Bob Dylan and Baez for a day....Or Elena Frolova... There is poetry in their songs... When music is simple i need poetry to go to ectasy... ( when there is poetry in a song i can even "understand" Russian otherwise i dont understand even english nor french ) Understanding is not what we think it is... It is not always "catching" it is often "resonating" ... |
RE: Tibetan singer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyutcSi0Rx8 This I like every much. . . I can definitely feel it "resonating" ! In fact, because I do not understand the language, the music bypasses the mind and acts directly, on a purely vibrational level. Ironically, in the West, "to be "out of one’s mind" is regarded as a tragedy.
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