I'm alive and listening, thanks, if drowsy for a chunk of daytime since I've a habit of working late into the night, often on draft music entries that take shape if excessive thought no longer gets in the way.
One recently pictured bird -- no "house Martin", Charlotte, but a wild lass -- must return very soon. There are times friends at work know better than even to greet me until I've heard out the song in my head then remove the "earpods" with an exclamation of amazement and delight.
A second hearing of Martin's new album 'Veins' made today one of them; I could only say, "Gosh, how does she do it?"
She's "so young", but age often means nothing for gifts of music and insight. If you can't wait for me to update a temporarily missing entry and say why it's a great idea to buy this album and meet Charlotte, don't forget the log-rolled 'Auralgasms' (her pages there) as an ever interesting gateway to music.
You won't find 'Veins' at Amazon, but iTunes does it. She says of one song, 'Four Walls', but don't take this as representative of a varied album rich in both spiritual and musical content:
"I am attempting to usher someone else through depression. I don't know what I'm doing. I clearly point this out but I do care and try" (Charlotte Martin).
For the emotional alchemy music can work at such times, she knows what's she is doing.
I must still do other things at least until the weekend.
Given the time, I'll put some more jottings on synchronicity in 'The Orchard' soon: recent connections in a life full of music and matters of women have been too odd to match anything but the frontiers of science.
I shan't yet tell you what the December cover story is on 'Science & Vie', again yet to be published on their site but already in my mailbox as a subscriber. The scientists in that magazine fail increasingly to do their job and keep my feet on the ground when music doesn't!
Do they understand that when mainstream scientific findings now routinely beggar belief, people might well give up on science for "answers" and turn to the likes of the women here instead? But people shouldn't say it's one or the other: hard fact or "inexplicable" insight. It's simply a road to nowhere these days if you treat art and science as separate paths.
Two additions to the log-roll: more fool me for failing to have added Womanrock Magazine ages ago, while Rockrgrl Magazine is about "supporting a woman's right to rock".
If I hadn't recently seen yet another blog survey, this time the latest list of so-called
'Top 40 Bands in America Today', that "right" would be manifestly evident!
It's not the whole list I trash of course, I like many bands on it. I just wonder whose "sexual prejudice" is strongest: mine for leaving out the guys or theirs for ... well, check it out!
You'll see why I'm totally turned off by "top 40" anything.
Now, back to other things and people.
I know announcing a plan usually means it'll fall apart but will take the risk and say the week after next is one when you may expect lots of music logging, including my mixed bag of outstanding "unknowns" and renowned singer-songwriters ahead of Christmas for those who believe that's more of a gift-giving time than any other day.
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