You are invited to our exploration of Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese approach to life and art especially suited to this time of the year. We have music from Japan, America (Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, and more), Britain (inc. a tribute to Jack Bruce), poetry from Ryokan, William Carlos Williams, Rumi, and Stevenson, RLA’s Autumn meditation from Journey through the Seasons, and finally a famous passage from Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: a lonely woman’s fantasy about romping naked in the water with twenty-eight men, of whom “the homeliest of them is beautiful to her”.
Tags: Coleman Barks, Cream, Eugene Friesen, Japanese art, Journey through the Seasons, Judo Notomi, Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rumi, Ryokan, shakuhachi, Song of Myself, wabi-sabi, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams
interesting and varied programme and it’s always a pleasure to hear part of RLA’s journey through the seasons. I liked the the wabi-sabi flute repeated so we could listen more carefully; the two version of ‘From 4 to late’ illustrate the point very well, the Rumi meditation—it was all interesting.
This recording seems to have a wabi-sabi quality: by i Fagiolini and the Sdasa Corale: the simple piano, slightly echoing, the gentle repetetive elements.