The Songcircle on 08/21/20

This whole flow of The Song Circle 8-21-2020 is ripe for Pandemic Age of Plague fever.

L. Cohen's hypnotic recitation of his Canadian mentor at McGill U., Frank Scott's poem "Villanelle for Our Time" from an overlooked Cohen album back in early aughts named DEAR HEATHER and produced with his then collaborative partners Sharon Robinson and Anjani Thomas looks forward from the deepest depravities of his earlier Jeremiad THE FUTURE, issued a dark decade earlier as the parting wheeze to a century of genocidal lunacy in the name of PROGRESS. After listening thanks to this audio archive a day later for the second time to this entire flow blendt by JeffRo, I went looking for some external explanation why L. Cohen's spoken word induction of Frank Scott's "A Villanelle for our Time" cast such a spell over me now in 2020 when at the time I first encountered the track and L. Cohen, Sharon Robinson, Anjani Thomas et al's DEAR HEATHER 18 years earlier it just sounded like a laborious nod to a formative academic mentor. I found an essayist to shed some light for me, so here's a share, that wouldn't surprise me if DJ JeffRo was hip to when he was putting this day's flow together:
https://ipg.vt.edu/DirectorsCorner/Soundings/Soundings111416.html

Turns out I needed to have my can-do spirit revived in this down time where like Pete Seeger by then pushing his 90's and still out gigging remarked introducing one of his favorite sing-a-longs "Here's one from when my get up and go got up and went..." I did not know until JeffRo noted it here recapping after playing the jaw-dropping and time\space altering communion of Tim Buckley's sailing vocal with his drone-trance 12-string acoustic guitar jazz chordings of "Pleasant Street\outro into Motown hit You Keep Me Hangin' On (Set Me Free) that there was this disc-overed live recording in London from 1968 before beginning his death spiral at age 28 from a heroin OD. This performance goes where nobody up on a stage alone should be going and is as SCARY a recording for where Buckley's angelic voice and innocent side of his questing soul were going with that rudimentary music way past the frontiers of intimacy. Be careful with controlled substances and be extra careful with this live recording that his record label may have been acting out of humanitarian concern to keep up on a shelf and away from wave after wave of opioid by-byes...

Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters and Psalm Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa
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Thanks much, Mitch, for the ears and the words!