It’s always a positive sign that I’m feeling better and more mentally stable when I start digging into music again. When I’m at the depths of my depression, I can’t even reach for music – my soul’s food. Given all the music I’ve been listening to and the string of music-related posts, I have yet another sign that I’m steadily on the upswing. Thanks to a myriad of factors, no doubt. My wonderful Peopleaneous, a few in particular who have seen the darkest sides of me and helped me through, another particular one who thrills me to no end, and the medications I’ve been put on have no doubt played a significant role as well. Never again will anyone hear me say psychiatric medication is bullshit.
I feel compelled to share what my soul is filled with this morning. Soothing me and tugging at me and pushing me and pulling me with its raw passion and purity. This, my friends, is art. It’s all instrumental, but you can hear Keith getting into it. Crying out at times, because he is music.
Keith Jarrett’s Changeless Album (4 songs in total)
Dancing
Endless
Lifeline
I can’t fucking find “Lifeline”. Ripped off!
Ecstasy
Ahhhhhh yes. Enjoy, my friends. Enjoy.
Glad you’re feeling better!
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THANK YOU!!
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Listening…..BrB!
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Yay! Enjoy.
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…so far… 😉
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Very good. Then we can still be friend. :p
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yay! I liked them very much! I usually have to be in a certain mood for instrumental music. I am fascinated with lyrics most of the time. but this was very nice to listen to today! thank you for introducing me to it! 🙂
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Yes, I’m drawn to lyrics the most. I latch onto them in pretty much everything I listen to. Poetry set to music, and it moves me so. I pay very close attention.
But sometimes, you just gotta let the words fade and meld into the raw music.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
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Great songs, Steph!
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Yay! I’m glad you likey!
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Well what a pleasant surprise
Jazz
Didn’t know you had it in you
I knew there was something buried deep
That I couldn’t see
Or hear
More please
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Oh yes. I love jazz.
And you know what else?
Gonna do a post on Delta Blues at some point. Oh oh yes.
🙂
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Great
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🙂
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Videos not working for me for some reason :(, but yay to you defrosting and warming your way to stability. I saw your tag ‘catharsis’ and thought it said ‘carcass’, lol. I’m roasting chicken right now. Maybe that’s why?! 😉
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Hahaha! Carcass! That’s awesome. And now I want roasted chicken….yummies.
I’m sorry the vids didn’t work. And thank you so much for your kind words and support.
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You’re most welcome 🙂
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THIS MUSIC IS TERRIBLE!!!!!
Or I am kidding.
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You better be kidding.
Otherwise, you may or may not suffer drastic repercussions.
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I may or may not be kidding.
Wouldn’t you like to know.
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I may or may not have a punishment in mind.
Wouldn’t you like to know.
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I may or may not like to know. Wouldn’t you like to know.
this could go on a while…
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I may or may not want it to.
Wouldn’t you like to know.
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I may or may not. Like I said, this could go on. Wouldn’t you like to know.
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I may or may not wanna know just how long you’re talkin’.
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I may or may not answer. Wouldn’t you like to know.
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I may or may not!
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Hahahaha! Well I think you may or may not already know.
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I may or may not.
And I think you may or may not already know, too.
I suppose we shall see now, won’t we?
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We may or may not.
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We do.
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No mention of Australia or young Adonis-like male who excels at everything and is incredibly humble.
You people make me adjective.
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I’ll adjective in your face, even if it is Adonis-like!
You will listen to Jarrett, and you will like it!
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Well expletive.
How about instead verb?
I bloody will well not!
I’m heading to work currently. Makes it a bit more difficult than listening on my computer-ter.
And here I thought this ol’ clam would enjoy the life of marriage. Instead I’m being adjectived all the time.
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Oh I can verb! I can verb until your head spins!
Besides, who needs marriage when you can just verb all day?
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True.
This line of talk has certainly become verbose though.
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As they are wont to do!
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That is true, for they do not know the value of a booming flower on a pale lake of night.
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Ah, but some do. And those that do, cling to the beauty of this version of reality.
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Or is it their version? For surely we all posess our own that we delude ourselves with, forever living in our real fantasy land.
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I’m quite content with my real fantasy land. Or. Rather. I will be soon. Soon soon.
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Excellent.
I listened to some of your Keith Jarrett. Too much metal. Not enough jazz.
Mayhap not necessarily a need to be content with your surroundings, but more a need to be content with you, regardless.
Also, the die has been cast and the gauntlet has been thrown down.
You’ve got mail and a story about a young, dashing, handsome male and his struggle with how he sees his nationality.
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Bahaha!
Do not critique the Jarrett. No. Seriously. He’s special to me, and I understand if he doesn’t speak to you. But he reaches into my soul.
And you know something? I’m slowly becoming content with me, but fuckin’ hell it’s a process.
I’ll check my mail as soon as I get a lengthier break at work! Yay! Mail!
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Far too metal though.
I mean, why would you want to listen to so many down-tuned guitars banging out the same note whilst someone wails on about mining?
Jokes aside, probably not my bag but I’d have to give him a proper go.
A process it is but it is worth it.
Positive thing of the day right there. TA-DAAAA!
And yes. Mailmailmail.
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Ha! what the fuck are you talking about?
Crazy silly boy.
FUCK. MAIL. I OWE SO MUCH MAIL.
I’m going!
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That’s a good question.
A good question.
A… good…
To your mail desk?
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To poke you.
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That’s an exceptionally long poke you must have then.
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That’s what she said.
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She also said something about proletarians.
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She usually does.
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You’re terrible *clam face*
So terrible, I might just gloat about how it’s currently the weekend.
And also trash talk this “Jarrett” rogue and his lack of jazz.
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:()
NO! BAD, FUTURE BOY!
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Future boy?
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YOU’RE IN THE FUTURE! Way ahead of me. Like 15 hours ahead!
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Yes, but I’m probably old enough to be your father, you know.
The future does that to you.
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Hahaha! Yes, yes, 15 hours ahead translates into 20 years my senior.
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More like 36, but close enough.
😀
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36 years older than me?! So you’re 71-72, huh? I’d have never guessed.
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It’s my shimmering glean.
And all the amounts of plastic surgery.
And the nose. Always the nose.
36?
I meant… 36,000.
Time dilation is weird like that.
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I thought that was grease.
36,000? I’d say you’re old enough to be everyone’s father.
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That’s just the Italian in me.
I mean, where do you think olive oil comes from?
Who says I aint?
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I’m not calling you daddy!
Pervert!
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Fair call.
And I see the gauntlet has been thrown back into my face. With gusto. And a horse!
Also, you made a good post here. Thought I should probably say that at this point, because it is.
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Thank you so much. Seriously.
Also. I do everything with gusto!
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You also throw horses, apparently.
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And miniature pigs.
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Wait what? Pigs are cute though!
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I didn’t say what I throw them into!
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Pillows? Flowers? Other piglets? Your arms?
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All of the above!
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And none of the below.
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But the middle is safe!
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That’s where Malcolm is.
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Malcolm isn’t allowed down there.
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Silly Mal.
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GUSTO!
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GUMPTION!
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GALL!
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RAMBUNCTIOUS!
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ROWDY!
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INSOLENCE!
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INCORRIGIBILITY!
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BRUSQUE!
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ABRUPT!
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BLUNT (heh)!
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SPLIFF!
I have to shut down my work computers and move them to the conference room now! It’ll be a while before I can reply again.
Mm now I want a spliff.
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Wait, you’re at work?
It’s ≈ twenty minutes past the hour of ten during the period of ante meridiem on a Saturday!
What tomfoolery is this?!
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Hahaha! It’s ~ 5:25 PM on Friday here in the rightside up part of the world!
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…Maybe (Just maybe) you should try and get out of work using the timezone difference as an argument, calculating how much work you’ve done for the week against how many hours you work, then pointing out that had it been in Australia, you’d have worked from Monday to Saturday by this point.
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Hmm, I could totally get on board with that logic. Except my immediate supervisor is kind of an idiot. I’m afraid his head would explode.
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So you don’t have to explain it twice.
Why worry?
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Hahaha!
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LAUGH!
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YOU LAUGH!
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I do on occasion.
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And on occasion, I do.
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I bet. I bet it’s an intense laugh that moves the masses.
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It aggravates some of my coworkers. Because when I really let loose, they can hear me all the way down the hall. 😀
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Is it followed by a water bombing?
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I shoot them with my nerf guns.
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Atta girl!
Nerf guns are always cool.
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I know!
Let’s shoot each other!
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You’re totally down. I can see it in those lopsided eyeballs.
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Well, yes I am, but still…
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O.o
P.S. I’ll have to answer your latest email later! I’m starting to get sleepy, and I have asstons of stuffs to do tomorrow.
Oh. And I’m totally gonna shoot you with one of those whistling darts.
Right it the nose.
Pow.
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Right in the kisser!
And fair enough, ha ha!
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HAHAHA!
Goodnight…or rather good afternoon!
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Oh so glad you’re on to better days 😀
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Yay! Thank you, Joey!
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Yay! Go, Stephanie! I always feel better after listening to my faves. Thanks to you, however, I can’t get Push It out of my head… 🙂
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DAMNIT! I’m sorry!
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LOL!
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You used to think psychiatric drugs were bullshit?? I’m SO glad you’re starting to feel better, especially as you experienced such awful side effects at first. Are you still on all the meds you were originally prescribed except lithium?
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Every last one of em!
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Wow, that’s a lot! Hope you’ve been able to sleep well?
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Like a baby. But I’m tired all day long. I think the ones for depression and mood regulation need to shift to nighttime because they list drowsiness as a side effect as well. And she has me taking those in the morning.
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But babies don’t sleep that well (or so I’ve heard from ‘baby owners’). 😉
Are you going to shift the depression and mood regulation ones to nighttime before seeing the doctor/pharmacist again?
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Me no baby owner. Me baby free. Me sleep like sleeping baby. Me no know why me talk like cookie monster.
I see the psych again Saturday. So I’m gonna talk to her about it then.
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Me no own no baby neither (a triple negative…woohoo!). Me like cookies.
Oh good, you’ll be seeing her soon. 🙂
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ME WANT COOKIE!
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No snacking before bed.
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LE COOKIE!
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J’ai dit non.
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POUTING
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File dans ta chambre, jeune femme!
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Oui madame. Je suis endormie maintenant. Demain, je mange tous les cookies. Et ne peut pas me arrêter!
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TOUS LES COOKIES!
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Tu as assez de cookies sur ton ordinateur.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Bonne nuit…hope you sleep much better than a typical baby does. 🙂
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Goodnight, my friend. And I hope you sleep well, too! 🙂
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Comme un chat. 😀
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Oh oui! Those little fuckers sleep all the time and in any circumstance!
Comme un chat!
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Who are you calling a little fucker? 😉
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Les chats! Les chats! Sauf peut-être tu es un peu baiseur? Oh mon Dieu!
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*Choquée* Tu as le culot de dire n’importe quoi! Je ne suis pas un petit baiseur…plutôt une petite baiseuse!
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Ahahaha! Ma faiblesse française contrarie mes efforts une fois de plus!
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Je te pardonne, mon amie anglophone. 🙂
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Merci de bien vouloir, plus gracieuse dame!
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En échange tu peux me donner des cours de philsophie (spécialisé sur Ghandi), d’accord?
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Oh oui, mais bien sûr!
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Youpi ya, youpi yé! 😀
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Je veux que tout le monde sache que je suis une disciple de la grande guru Stéphanie Llanéous! 😀
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Tu es une amende disciple en effet!
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Glad you are on the upswing darlin’ and I friggin love this music. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you! And I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
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I am on the hunt on iTunes right now. I LOVE instrumental music and I am diggin’ his style.
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Oh awesome! And he has decades worth of tunes out there!
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I have playlists that are just single artists that I use to motivate me or calm me the fuck down – I think he may fit both.
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Discovering him was one of my best discoveries yet. I love tons of different types of music, but Jarrett fulfills a musical need in me that few can.
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Thanks for sharing ❤
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Love the music choices Steph, never heard of this guy before so will defog add him to my collection. Good background music when turned low or good foreground when belted out. Two music styles for the price of one!
P.S, so glad you are finally feeling brighter and better. You take care now.
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Thank you, Cameron!
And I’m so so glad you appreciated the music. He’s phenomenal. You can find decades of his work – Keith Jarrett or Keith Jarrett Trio. Special music.
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Yes, have been looking so will make some selections soon!
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Very nice! Thank you!
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Glad you liked it. If you don’t know already there is another (excellent) live version of this piece on the “Nude Ants” album.
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Sweet – thank you!
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Talking if Keith Jarrett … I just remembered this:
https://bennaga.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/long-time-coming/
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That was beautiful!
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Thank you. I was hoping you would appreciate it.
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Yeah, these are pretty groovy, all right. I’ve been jamming to Miles Davis, myself.
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Kind of Blue!
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