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Dmitry Erkin's avatar

Thanks!

I have seen him live like 30 years ago in Israel and forever fell in love

Did you read his latest book, recorded as conversation/intervew ? He tells how he wanted to be a painter/artist and how images are the first inspiration for his works (and many other things)

It made so much sense, sort if helped me to appreciate him even more

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

I didn't! I should. But I can well believe that about images. His music has a filmic quality even when it isn't on a soundtrack.

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Ron Wall's avatar

Jubilee Street, as it builds and builds and builds, never fails to move me to tears! There is something so cathartic about the entire band’s performance!

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

True!

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Jonathan Weil's avatar

He’s one of my top 2 live performances I think. Prince is the other. Both have the power to take on the form of the Great God Dionysus for a few hours.

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Woolie Wool's avatar

The silk bit makes perfect sense in context because while silk might be expensive today, it was *ruinously* expensive in Muhammad's time, and also symbolic of the pan-Eurasian trade network stretching from Rome to China that was gradually collapsing. Silk was a symbol of the old order, of pagan empires, of everything both the emerging Islamic society and Dark Age Christian societies hated. The early 7th century was a time of religious fanaticism and moral panic at a level that is nearly incomprehensible today, nearly everybody in western Eurasia belonged to one of dozens of violently moralistic religions vying for supremacy. Islam, Catholicism, and Orthodoxy were just the three that ultimately won; there were many others and all of them were, by our standards, fucking nuts.

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Sam Howson's avatar

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the comic book writer Kieron Gillen? His comics Phonogram and The Wicked + The Divine take the idea of music as magic and/or religion literally. Lots of similar themes explored!

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

I'm not! Thanks for the recommendation

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

Thank you Alistair! I think the only thing that would have made the concert better is if Bargeld had been there to sing "The Weeping Song" with Cave. But it was fantastic and I hope you and your family have a great time.

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

Hah! If I hadn't seen the video I might not have known that today

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