Mystical Performances

oh...one more...
Usi Letela Uxdlo (Nelson Mandela Brings Us Peace) - The African National Congress Choir on the CD Amandla... recorded the day Mandela ascended to the Presidency of South Africa. If that doesn't bring tears to your eyes, either you don't know the story or your deaf.

try shelby lynne "just a little lovin'" it is an album of covers from dusty springfield. better recording values, to me, than any of dusty"s originals and it will make any woman your with sit and listen for the entire album.

Diana Krall - A Case of You from Live in Paris.

Nina Simone - from Anthology: Ne Me Quitte Pas; I Loves You Porgy

Rory Block - sorry, cannot recall the song right now ...

Mahalia Jackson singing "Sunday Morning" on Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige".

"Don't Let It Show" from "I Robot" - Alan Parsons Project

"Land Of Make Believe" - Moody Blues from "Seventh Sojourn" and "Never Blame the Rainbows for the Rain" - Moody Blues from "Keys to the Kingdom".

"Suppers Ready" - Genesis

"Mystical" may not be quite the right word but "Man Erg" By Van Der GRaaf Generator from "Pawn Hearts" is quite a powerful piece.

I'd also vote for Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" and Morrison's "Astral Weeks".

When I think of mystical, jazz fusion comes to mind first. Artists like Chick Corea, Flora Purim, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report. Saw many of these bands live back in the day, some of the most mystical musical experiences in my lifetime! Some jazz purists hate the stuff, I love it.

I also think of Frank Zappa and obscure psychedelic music from 60's, stuff from artists like Music Emporium, Sagittarious, Trader Horne, Eclection, Gandalf, Kennelmus, Chrysalis and Silver Apples. These are very experimental bands, some very elementary, yet they all evoke a feeling of reverence. It may also be some won't get this music, perhaps you had to have lived in those times to get the feeling. The initial awakenings of the counterculture and mass drug use were a pretty strange time in human existence.