Yesterday I went to something called a 'sound healing'. The premise is that sound affects you on a cellular level, energising and healing you. The musicians walk around the room, playing guitar and singing, and chiming on gongs and bells and so on. Imagine deep drums for base chakra, gongs and bells for the higher chakras. Sound is energy, energy is sound.

I've been to a few of these things and generally fall asleep. It's lovely and relaxing, but I can't say I've been spiritually charged or moved by them - perhaps because I've been moved so much by music in my life and felt so much incredible energy from it that it's going to be a big effort on behalf on any musician to 'heal' me with sound in one Sunday afternoon. Perhaps I'm a little cynical - perhaps I struggle to open up to people who profess to have these powers. We sung some mantras to begin with - a Green Tara Tibetan chant and a Sufi one, and we ommed and hummed it was lovely, being carried away with waves of sound.

Still, I didn't feel moved enough to share the music of that experience - it just wasn't my jam. He was talented enough but it didn't thrum in my heart the way it did for others.

Here I am writing on Sunday night trying to think of musical moments that DID move me - and instead, I'm just enjoying the silence of the early evening and the music of the birds settling down for the night... thus...

....the passing of time, a night of willy wagtails tweeting mischievously - do they ever sleep?

.... and then awaking on Music Monday, going with the first song that pops in my head, as they often do on waking.

Firstly, Xylouris White - this is Jim White from The Dirty Three (who plays drums like NO-ONE I have ever seen play drums - the guy is an ARTIST!) and George Xylouris who plays the Cretan lute and is a bit of a legend in that regard! When we saw them live in Melbourne last year, they started with the craziest loudest drums that whacked me in chest so hard it made me grin like crazy. I took my parents and Dad turned and looked at me with utter joy on his face. Yep, we were moved - the music thrummed through us and for a moment, there was God. This might not be to everyone's taste and I'm including it for @perceptualflaws, my Music Monday buddy, who I thought might dig it (mate, loud please!)

Being a big fan of fusion/world/dub music, I have to advise at this point an awesome radio show called 'The Good, The Dub and the Global' on 102.7 RRR Melbourne Radio. I love what Sister BB plays and you might like to listen again if that's your thing. You can find the show here - I bloody love it. This advice is in place of Tune number 2 - I'm actually letting Xylouris White roll on on Youtube and lost in that atmosphere I'm reluctant to go tune hunting for the second tune! Forgive me!

On an another totally unrelated note, I've been listening to Will Oldham again this week - used to listen to him a lot years ago, and Joya is one of my all time favourite albums. He's kinda freak folk/alternative country and I've loved him since I started listening to him mid 1990's.

I just love the sexiest of these lyrics:

Oh all around a left buttock
And all around a right
All around your every curve
I'm going to go tonight
But only hold me, hold me
All the city's on me
And all they wish to scold me
And lay their hands upon me
So only hold me, hold me
And I'll return't you baby
I just need an evening
With someone nice to hide me

What tunes are you listening to this week?

Please feel free to drop a youtube link below - it's all about sharing music baby! If you have been following these posts you'll know that my taste is super varied and eclectic, and I really love listening to lots of music (apart from metal - sorry @karinxxl) and LOVE it when you drop a tune for me so my Monday gets super musical! I'll upvote what I can depending on my voting power xx

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