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Music upside down
Last night's moon was little more than a leftover smile and this picture does it little credit. But it was a warm balmy evening even after the sun had gone. And tonight I am thinking about music and how places sound different but how music crosses borders. Jimi Hendrix played a right hand guitar left handed but strung the left way up and died way too young, another young man played a right hand guitar left handed and strung the right way but the wrong way for most players, probably because he just picked up a guitar and played and knew no other way (he was blind so how was he to know what was the right way up, he'd never seen anyone playing, hey I guess he soon learned about right and wrong and difference), he also sang in his own Yolŋu and died too young; its an upside down world though music survives the years and cuts through the cultures in its own way. Last night Maria and Lefteris took us to see a fantastic Cretan singer Vassals Skoulas and his band and music and it wasn't difficult to follow what was going on - I'll leave this post with two pieces of music in the hope they cross borders.
Last night's moon was little more than a leftover smile and this picture does it little credit. But it was a warm balmy evening even after the sun had gone. And tonight I am thinking about music and how places sound different but how music crosses borders. Jimi Hendrix played a right hand guitar left handed but strung the left way up and died way too young, another young man played a right hand guitar left handed and strung the right way but the wrong way for most players, probably because he just picked up a guitar and played and knew no other way (he was blind so how was he to know what was the right way up, he'd never seen anyone playing, hey I guess he soon learned about right and wrong and difference), he also sang in his own Yolŋu and died too young; its an upside down world though music survives the years and cuts through the cultures in its own way. Last night Maria and Lefteris took us to see a fantastic Cretan singer Vassals Skoulas and his band and music and it wasn't difficult to follow what was going on - I'll leave this post with two pieces of music in the hope they cross borders.
