10-08-2020, 15:22
After the Terje Rypdal track, one thing led to another and I've ended up listening to Music to Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet by Ketil Bjørnstad who is a seriously accomplished individual - musician, composer, poet and writer. Rypdal lends his wonderful melancholic strings to the majority of these pieces and Mr Bjørnstad's compositions are beautiful. It boggles the mind that someone has enough time in their life to create so prolifically! Oddly that very same scenario mirrors the life of Kahlil Gibran (to a degree), which wasn't very long, and yet saw him producing a substantial body of work, both writing and visual art. This seems to be something of an obscure release - not on label ... gorgeous, IMHO ...
The opener - "The Coming of the Ship" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QssKTKS_aMc
"Laws" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idAsjoR-5HE
"Good and Evil" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPFGb0q83BI
"Giving" ...
The opener - "The Coming of the Ship" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QssKTKS_aMc
"Laws" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idAsjoR-5HE
"Good and Evil" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPFGb0q83BI
"Giving" ...
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson

