In mid-September, 1995, the evening of Sept. 14 to morning of Sept. 15, I did a great fall equinox/new moon ritual, beginning with cross-legged nude contemplation of a gorgeous red sunset from Wreck Beach. Later that night I taped a compilation tape of some favourite tunes for a net friend. All night I had my (now) 11-year old red candle (made in an old Black Velvet whiskey tube) in my east window. As dawn approached I played the tape, did a yoga sun salutation series near the end of the tape as the first rays of sun hit the candle, and blew out the candle at the end of the tape.
The tape ends with these three songs: Rawlins Cross: Long Night Thomas Trio & the Red Albino: Sun Risin' Figgy Duff: Honour, Riches (song from The Tempest, sung by Pamela Morgan) The song from the Tempest goes: Honour, riches, marriage blessing Long continuance and increasing Hourly joys be still upon you Juno sings her blessings on you Earth's increase foison plenty Barns and garners never empty Vines with clustering bunches growing Plants with goodly burden bowing Spring come to you at the farthest At the very end of harvest Scarcity and want shall shun you Ceres blessing so is on you
Then on Hallowe'en I lit all my candles, played music by dead musicians and stuff related to Hallowe'en, and it sounded almost live. (A friend who came to visit around then heard my copy of Rory Gallagher's Live In Europe/Stage Struck double CD and said it sounded almost live, but that is because it is a good CD, I adjusted the EQ, and perhaps was something else.) So anyway that wasn't anything too unusual, just a regular annual thing, playing Emile Benoit and Rufus Guinchard and Noel Dinn and Jim Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Del Shannon, Patsy Cline, Beethoven's 7th, more.
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