A Place Where No One Can Find Me, Episode One: Taneeah, or That Haunted California Feeling by Hiss Golden Messenger published on 2022-11-03T17:15:07Z Dick Slessig Combo, ”Rock Your Baby” ++ Don Fardon, “I’m Alive” ++ Lync, “Two Feet in Front” ++ Don Cherry, “Brown Rice” ++ George Anne Muldrow, “Wind” ++ The Revolutionaries, “Jah Creation Dub” ++ Alice Coltrane, “Turiya & Ramakrishna” ++ Miles Davis, “He Loved Him Madly” ++ Natural Information Society, “Maroon Dune” ++ Sylford Walker, “Chant Down Babylon” ++ Frederic McQueen,” Harcourt Got Drowned” ++ The Everly Brothers, “Lord of the Manor” Comment by peterdaviesnewman "This music sounded to me like a zen koan. A verse that, if you unlock just a piece of it, just a measure, it might give you a new way to live." For many I think, this is one of the most profound and beloved - if often unrecognized - graces of music. To peer through the window, clouded and cracked though it may be, into another human being's infinitely complex experience of life, as expressed through rhythm and melody. To touch it at the edges, or dive deeply and revel in it, or simply spend a day next to it, letting its spirit flow through us - yet never fully experiencing it as its creator did. Given genuine devotion to the music, this is an almost spiritual or transcendant bridge: at one human and something more - at once desperately inviting and never truly crossable. As a devotee of Hiss Golden Messenger's music in particular, I (an I would guess many others) am intimately familiar with this beautiful, ineffable phenomenon. 2022-11-09T05:53:26Z