Beyond All Words
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."[Robert G. Ingersoll]
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Music Knows No Boundaries
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RockOm speaks with Playing For Change co-director Jonathan Walls about the documentary Playing for Change: Peace Through Music (currently on PBS), music's power to bring people together and enlightenment through song.
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Featured Track of the Week
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by Playing For Change LINKS:PlayingForChange.com Preview/Purchase the album Songs Around the World is the name of the album that accompanies the documentary, Playing For Change: Peace Through Music. Playing for Change is an extraordinary effort to unite musicians and vocalists from diverse parts of the globe, while at the same time seeking to immerse audiences in a multimedia [...]
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Busy Up!
We at RockOm are hard at work today prepping two very exciting all new featured interviews for release tomorrow. [Be sure to check back in then!] So in substitution of an original or shared article here at RockOm, we invite you to head over to the wrongplanet.net forum and check out this fantastic discussion going on about evolution and music as spirituality in a post-secular world. A short exc...
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The incorporeal entrance
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."[Ludwig van Beethoven ]
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A light for our path
The saints and sages have gone before us, lighting our path, giving us clues as to what they had discovered. Many have found music at the heart of their discoveries and rapture in the vibrational foundations of Creation. Spend some time marinating in these words, allowing the wisdom of those who have gone before to wash over you like a flood, opening your eyes to see more music and beauty in th...
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The Need for Rhythm
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"The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life... the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril." [Richard Baker, composer/conductor]
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New Podcast: The SiXXis & Adrian Belew
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On this week's podcast episode, out today:Vladdy Iskhakov, lead vocalist of The SiXXis, talks about the importance of his Jewish faith; his spirituality's influence on the band and their lyrical content; and goes into detail about this week's RockOm Featured Tracks, "Forgotten Son" and "Song."Also included is an interview with legendary, innovative guitarist Adrian Belew about his time with Bow...
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A Musician’s Meditation
By Roger HatfieldStop now, quiet your mind and anticipate the sound. Regard your instrument with respect and may I say, love? ... Fill your heart with the expectation of the first note, the last note, the only note. Allow your heart to be surprised by this attack of sound, as if by the appearance of a long lost love. (MORE...)
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The 3-2-1 of Musical Performances
Regular RockOm contributor Michael Garfield shares with RockOm a very insightful article about using the "3-2-1 Process" in understanding the performer/audience relationship. Not only musicians need to check out this article for, as he puts it, "we're all participants in something larger called a 'concert' that requires both artist and audience in the same way that fertilization requires both m...
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Plugging into the heart
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"There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil."[Peter Gabriel]
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What’s Rockin @ RockOm: 8/18
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This week we bring you significant interviews and audio previews from two related "cutting-edge" artists. Click "More" to see what we've got going on this week with Atlanta progressive rock band The Sixxis and legendary guitarist and musician Adrian Belew [pictured].
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Something In the Air
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A different drummer
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." [Henry David Thoreau]
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Transported
"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in [...]
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