Jazz for aficionados
@ps Agree with you about Esbjorn Svensson. There might, however, be some consolation in the music of Magnus Ostrom... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SinHjKx4rh4 as well as that of Lars Danielsson. |
@ghosthouse : +1 - I’ve got playlists for both. :) . There are so many knockout trios coming out of Europe and elsewhere. Also especially taken with Eri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbTWbnnmuQg This guy from Finland, Joona Toivanen can make my day. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqAnB3CMxzY |
**** To what, does ’The Sound of Red’ refer. **** Rok, I don’t know this for a fact, but I would bet that Renee Marie is a Buddhist. In Buddhism there is a concept called “chakra”. A chakra is believed to be an “energy center” in the body; there are several. One of the ideas behind the concept of “chakra” is the association of a chakra with a specific color. Additionally, there is a neurological phenomenon called “Chromesthesia” (or, more generally, “Synesthesia”) which causes some individuals to experience sounds as specific colors. This is not entirely quackery and is well studied and documented. The famous composer Alexander Scriabin devised a scheme associating specific notes to specific colors which he used in some of his compositions. Interestingly, the song “The Sound Of Red” is in the key of Bb (B flat). In Scriabin’s note/color scheme Bb corresponds with the color “Rose”. Coincidence? Lastly, I mentioned that I had briefly chatted with Renee Marie when my wife and I went to see her. The CD that she signed for my wife was signed “With Joy, Renee Marie”. “Joy” is a term very commonly used in Buddhism and one of the four “sublime attitudes”. O-10, another of those four is....”equanimity”. In case anyone is wondering, I dated a Buddhist all through colloge. Didn’t work out too well. |
