{"id":22492,"date":"2020-04-18T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=22492"},"modified":"2020-04-20T07:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:44:26","slug":"ramh12-still-here-differently-and-a-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/ramh12-still-here-differently-and-a-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"RAMH@12: Still Here, Just Differently (and a Playlist)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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[Painted wood carving, <\/em>Wind Blows my Hat Off #1<\/a>, by folk artist Mary Michael Shelley<\/a>]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My practice in these anniversary posts has been to open with a playlist. Each such playlist has always included selections from music-related posts over the years… but this year, at least, seems to call for something different. (Not least, because I’ve so seldom done music-related posts in recent years: scant fresh music to draw on!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, then, the 2020 edition of the RAMH anniversary playlist includes 15 selections from a single album — at that, an album never discussed here: Silk Baroque<\/em>, by a performer named (or at least going by the name!) Wu Wei<\/a>. I discovered Wu quite by accident; if you’ve visited here recently, you probably already know which post<\/a>‘s preparation led me to him. His instrument of choice is the modern version of an ancient Chinese wind instrument called the sheng<\/a><\/em>; at his Web site, Wu describes this instrument as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sheng, a mouth organ, formed out of a bundle of bamboo reeds and cased in a metal bowl, sounds as the singing phoenix from a Chinese legend: silvery and fleeting as the wind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I won’t promise that the sheng’s sound will indeed say singing phoenix<\/em> to you (whatever the hell a singing phoenix sounds like; I thought they pretty much just squawked). For me, I’ll say only that the Silk Baroque<\/em> album has helped me a great deal to retain the frame of mind described in that post from two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per usual for an anniversary post, I’ll add a few stray blogging-anniversary notes after the playlist — presumably setting the mood for your reading, ha.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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