Holy Music...

Listening to Junun (2015) this morning. A collaboration of three entities: She Ben Tzur, Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead), and the Rajasthan Express. It does transport you to another time and place. In fact, it sort of comes to your ears as timeless music, rich & alive, conjuring up ancient vibes and grooves. At the same time, you get electric guitars, and beats and the fabulous Radiohead engineer Nigil Goodrich. So it's an interesting mashup of things, old, new, traditional, modern.

The record is a true labor of love.

Energizing. Mysterious. All the lyrics are in a foreign tongue. I just checked out the the booklet, all the songs are about GOD. Heady stuff. Holy stuff. Transporting. Yes. Transporting this morning. A bit of time & head tripping. The lyrics point upward, but to my ears it's like talking in tongues. Holy babble. Strangely it, makes it all the more engaging, enchanting and powerful.

Talking to GOD. Holy gibberish. Probably the only way to be heard.

I look out the window. Snow on the ground, bare trees, a bit gloomy today, dark clouds looming. But the music of the morning fills my ears with another reality. Animating. Beautiful. That's what I love about music & art, and the human imagination. This is a soundtrack for the head & heart. And soul too!