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Topic: Nature and Music Make a Beaitiful Combo Posted: June 29 2013 at 20:57
We just had a day-long rainstorm with thunder in my city and I cranked up Vangelis' Soil Festivities to 11 and dimmed the lights. It was such an awesome experience that I just had to log into PA and share. I rarely have time to sit down and just listen nowadays (especially to an entire album), so this was truly cathartic.
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 21:59
Matching up the perfect record with the current weather conditions (preferably on the perfect setting, but not needed) is damn hard to beat.
I also enjoy playing music during a thunderstorm.
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 23:14
Man, you're right, although I rarely have the opportunity to do this...I do remember one time, though, when we had a thunderstorm going and I cranked up "Jacob's Ladder" by Rush on the stereo...it was great.
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Posted: June 30 2013 at 08:54
I remember listening to Soft Machine "Third" during a particularly dark and rainy day, and it worked great.
Another time, I was taking a long road trip and left in the morning before the sun came out. As the sun was beginning to rise, Gong's "A Sprinkling of Clouds" was playing, and it was damn perfect.
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I really like ORPHAN LAND's MABOOL where the sounds of a tumultuous rain storm depict the great flood that is about to occur. Shortly after some incredible guitars kick in and it is just wonderful.
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Posted: July 02 2013 at 01:53
Back in the days when Britain had a summer I would listen to Kate Bush - Aerial as the perfect compliment. The only thing missing on that album is the sound of cricket bat on ball.
I also imagine that Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn would be ideal for a foggy morning. I would have tried it on Sunday morning when I the fog was rolling in from the sea but for the fact I was with someone at the time and it would have been anti-social.
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Posted: July 02 2013 at 08:03
Granchester Meadows, Jimmehs.
Better yet get yourself a nature's sounds lp.
I got one of the crowds (in the distance at Woodstock). You hears the chants 7 bells in the distance. You almost can smell the sexual juices,patchouli and jimsonweed.
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Posted: July 05 2013 at 23:35
A decade or so ago, I was in my apartment on a summer evening, and I was listening to the Angela Morley soundtrack of “Watership Down” (the animated film based on Richard Adams’ bestseller). Maybe ten minutes or so into it, I look across the parking lot to the big oak on the other side, and what do you think I saw sitting next to its trunk. You guessed it: a rabbit! One of only a handful of times I see a rabbit in broad daylight in the area, and look when this one decides to show its adorable self!
To those not aware, “Watership Down” was about a band of rabbits looking for a new home.
In the words of Michael Palin, "Isn't nature wonderful!!!! Heyhey, yeahyeahyeahyeah!!!!"
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Posted: July 06 2013 at 20:30
Speaking of soundtracks and thunderstorms, the first time I listened to the soundtrack of "The Dark Crystal" it was thru headphones, during a storm, while sitting partially outside though I was sheltered. Perfect juxtaposition!
David Bedford's Instructions For Angels has a strange afffect on me. I feel supernatural or trance like when listening to it. There seems to be a repeated marching style piece within the variations ,,but it's everything else that places me in a dream/hypnotic state. I usually play it if I know that a storm is coming. Pauline Anna Strom's Spectre is music from a dark world that interests me. Jade Warrior's Island period and also Breathing the Storm and Horizons are perfect for a landscape view.
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Posted: July 16 2013 at 02:14
I remember listening to "Industry" by King Crimson for the first time, and it reminded me of a boat ride my family took near the Giant City State Park in Illinois. It was on a lovely lake with a bunch of trees, there was even one growing on a patch of land within the lake itself (think of the inside cover of Yes' Going For The One). At one end of the lake, however, the tree line broke away and you could see what was some sort of power plant. "Industry" has that same effect; the music sounds like you're walking in a forest, then slowly it dissolves into a noisy highway full of strip malls and factories, then back to the forest again.
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One of only a handful of times I see a rabbit in broad daylight in the area, and look when this one decides to show its adorable self!
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