"...the great Nic Mozart passed away in hospital last night. Deeply, deeply
missed."
pH@SS, 17.01.2013
No more VdGG pure bass players left. All went West...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
On Translations - part 7
The draft version of "Curly's Airships" translation in Russian is ready!
What still needs to be done is just to reread it, to correct several suspicious lines, to synchronize with Judge's comments, to reread it once again, to check the rhymes in those separate song/radio spot fragments, to work out formatting, to add all the collected comments and references, to mark some special notes regarding the texts, to think out some opening address - and here we are!
What still needs to be done is just to reread it, to correct several suspicious lines, to synchronize with Judge's comments, to reread it once again, to check the rhymes in those separate song/radio spot fragments, to work out formatting, to add all the collected comments and references, to mark some special notes regarding the texts, to think out some opening address - and here we are!
Monday, December 17, 2012
A Tribute
A couple of days ago this item has popped up on eBay.... If I had, well, some 100K$, I would definitely buy it right now. Maybe I could offer my price, but it will surely be insufficient to satisfy the seller. Ah, come what may - since my collection is built upon different principle I should not care much about this case. I will write a Tribute page instead.
Probably, this is the one and only album that connects me to the 60-s, the blessed years of the Flower Children. Only through the music on this record I can somehow feel the essence of that unique experience of the human being's existence on this planet. All other stuff does not catch me to that extent when I could miss those years and feel myself happy at the same time. I cannot think out any other example to serve for me.
Yes, it was then, some 45 years ago, when the times were changing, and the new music created in consequences of events, reflecting all that went before and projecting the future path. A true Here-and-Now music, which turned out to be timeless and unplaced.
Oh, sorry, you might have already asked "WTF??!! Why the price for that piece of plastic and cardboard is that high?!" Well, this copy is unique not only for the VdGG, but for all kind of vinyl/music/rarity collectors: this is the UK (!!!) test pressing of the first ever record made by Van der Graaf Generator. Actually the album was then released only in the USA (this has another interesting story with curious facts involved), so only a few copies of this specific record were pressed, and few copies of this sleeve too. The artworks for the official US-release was absolutely different, with different sleeve notes, and less attractive (in my humble modern opinion). Today almost anybody has a chance to own this piece of my world. One will take it soon.... I always thought I would never see this record on public sale in my life, so to say....
It seems to me that the Flower Children used all the possibilities the Life granted them with. What has left there for us, the modern people? I would say, the union of the Music, Love, and the Spirit. So, again we have everything to start creating what will be Ours. А new era is about to start. What shall come into this Life with this era? How should we be involved into it? How should we present it through our works? All depends on us, so let's do it now!
Today I am more than happy to realize, that the very first notes of the very first track of this very first album of Van der Graaf Generator - the No.1 music for me! - were the sounds created to tie me forever with this Music, to made me feel the Spirit, and still warming that Love inside me. So I shall be keeping this Spirit up and go forward with it!
Thanks go to the friends of mine Tigran Papyan (who brought all of that stuff to our attention and still spreads the word around), Araik Adamyan (R.I.P. - for sharing his tapes with the whole community of ours), Jeff (who shared his taped copy of the Aerosol with me) and, most of them all, to my brother George, who actually brought that tape home and pressed PLAY button. He would do that sooner or later anyway....
Probably, this is the one and only album that connects me to the 60-s, the blessed years of the Flower Children. Only through the music on this record I can somehow feel the essence of that unique experience of the human being's existence on this planet. All other stuff does not catch me to that extent when I could miss those years and feel myself happy at the same time. I cannot think out any other example to serve for me.
Yes, it was then, some 45 years ago, when the times were changing, and the new music created in consequences of events, reflecting all that went before and projecting the future path. A true Here-and-Now music, which turned out to be timeless and unplaced.
Oh, sorry, you might have already asked "WTF??!! Why the price for that piece of plastic and cardboard is that high?!" Well, this copy is unique not only for the VdGG, but for all kind of vinyl/music/rarity collectors: this is the UK (!!!) test pressing of the first ever record made by Van der Graaf Generator. Actually the album was then released only in the USA (this has another interesting story with curious facts involved), so only a few copies of this specific record were pressed, and few copies of this sleeve too. The artworks for the official US-release was absolutely different, with different sleeve notes, and less attractive (in my humble modern opinion). Today almost anybody has a chance to own this piece of my world. One will take it soon.... I always thought I would never see this record on public sale in my life, so to say....
It seems to me that the Flower Children used all the possibilities the Life granted them with. What has left there for us, the modern people? I would say, the union of the Music, Love, and the Spirit. So, again we have everything to start creating what will be Ours. А new era is about to start. What shall come into this Life with this era? How should we be involved into it? How should we present it through our works? All depends on us, so let's do it now!
Today I am more than happy to realize, that the very first notes of the very first track of this very first album of Van der Graaf Generator - the No.1 music for me! - were the sounds created to tie me forever with this Music, to made me feel the Spirit, and still warming that Love inside me. So I shall be keeping this Spirit up and go forward with it!
Thanks go to the friends of mine Tigran Papyan (who brought all of that stuff to our attention and still spreads the word around), Araik Adamyan (R.I.P. - for sharing his tapes with the whole community of ours), Jeff (who shared his taped copy of the Aerosol with me) and, most of them all, to my brother George, who actually brought that tape home and pressed PLAY button. He would do that sooner or later anyway....
Friday, November 23, 2012
To live in spite of.....
Darkness fetters us around. We are surrounded. What should have happened has happened. The near end does not amaze us at all. The days of Mother-Earth are numbered. Her noble Warriors fall either together or divided, and though she knows what should happen and how, when and where, she cannot share that knowledge with us. Thus, being in ignorance, we are moving towards Fatum, blindly. That is all, one might think....
But having all this in the background, each of us still has the right to have the last wish. What will it be like? Do we know what we want and what we need?
"No."
Do we feel what wee need?
"Yes." (however we mostly do not trust in that feeling).
What to do?
One option is: to stretch in bed after a restless sleep, to come to work, to stir the system up to hell, to arrange individual parts in the system, to be in two calls simultaneously, to enjoy a cup of coffee, to state authoritatively your understanding of the Future (let the people amuse), to eat, to intercommunicate through music, to make music through beer, to make a discovery, to decide for frenzy, to have more beer, to enjoy the future, to catch the stranger's look, to look at somebody with a stranger look, to sing an unfamiliar song and dance to a familiar one, to tell a story, to come down with money completely, to give yourself to Earth, to subdue the anger, to bow to the beloved one, to put yourself at the mercy of Eternity and to hope for a new day.
Mind out! one whole day postponement....
But having all this in the background, each of us still has the right to have the last wish. What will it be like? Do we know what we want and what we need?
"No."
Do we feel what wee need?
"Yes." (however we mostly do not trust in that feeling).
What to do?
One option is: to stretch in bed after a restless sleep, to come to work, to stir the system up to hell, to arrange individual parts in the system, to be in two calls simultaneously, to enjoy a cup of coffee, to state authoritatively your understanding of the Future (let the people amuse), to eat, to intercommunicate through music, to make music through beer, to make a discovery, to decide for frenzy, to have more beer, to enjoy the future, to catch the stranger's look, to look at somebody with a stranger look, to sing an unfamiliar song and dance to a familiar one, to tell a story, to come down with money completely, to give yourself to Earth, to subdue the anger, to bow to the beloved one, to put yourself at the mercy of Eternity and to hope for a new day.
Mind out! one whole day postponement....
Thursday, November 15, 2012
We Are One
Some five years ago remus pleased DENNIS by finding information on the performer of "My Love, We Are One" from the movie Orca (The
Killer Whale), and the lyrics. Today it is me who was pleased with that.
Artist: Carol Connors
Music: Ennio Morricone
I will bring the sun through darkened clouds
And I will live with you rainbows for your eyes
Rainbows for your eyes
Now, my love, we are one
We are one
We are one, cried my love
Let me lead you where the moonlit waters fall
Shadows softly call
My love, we are one
We are one
We are one, cried my love
Let me lead you where the stillness of the night
Delivered dawn’s first light
My love, we are one
We are one
We are one
We are one
Artist: Carol Connors
Music: Ennio Morricone
I will bring the sun through darkened clouds
And I will live with you rainbows for your eyes
Rainbows for your eyes
Now, my love, we are one
We are one
We are one, cried my love
Let me lead you where the moonlit waters fall
Shadows softly call
My love, we are one
We are one
We are one, cried my love
Let me lead you where the stillness of the night
Delivered dawn’s first light
My love, we are one
We are one
We are one
We are one
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
A pomegranate fraction
I don't need any Wiki to describe the meaning of "an instrument"word. It is an item required for creation of anything, that in its turn means (Mher leaves tonight, while the wine has been tasted now) to hand Energyto Mother-Earth and the Universe (or should I say "to give", which sound even more erotic). Hendo knows, he feels, and when Mesrop called on me I was about to cry. Is it me who will let These people down?! Is it me who should not be thankful for having them beside?! If I had an instrument I would tell everybody about myself (due to Mher's dislocation and his wine). 24 hours ago I held her in my arms and she responded to me with her being, and her being is to sound the Ensouler would ask of her. It depends on him how others see her, and on this - how Mother-Earth is enriched. She was with me yesterday, not for long, just about one hour. Here, Mher has run in front f me, he is in rush, his time is counted in hours, mine - in years, and Wine is the Judge for all. I cannot let Mesrop down, he is pure. Old but pure. So I will be playing today, rehearsing, trying to do that fan with my fingers, thus lifting my instrument up to the level of amusement. Blessed are my friends' distant trips, for they open the path to our Mother from time to time. And meetings and conferences - oh what trifles they all are!
A pomegranate fraction, you started my day today, though Mher didn't get that.
A pomegranate fraction, you started my day today, though Mher didn't get that.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
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