Who is your longest-running musical hero? Someone you loved in high school or college who still has major real estate in your playlists or on your trendy turntable…
The ever-evolving, recently retired British progressive rock group Genesis have been my musical darlings since I was around 15 and I owe Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett et al a debt of inspirational and emotional gratitude that can never even be expressed.
Forty years on and still a chord progression here, a lyric there, pops up regularly and colours my day.
Gabriel’s recent solo release “io” is that rare thing- an aging star willing to embrace the lessons and lesions of time and able to weave them into Art of astonishing beauty and vulnerability. The honesty alone is flooring to me.
A favourite track, Playing For Time, has helped me wade through a mire of uncontrollable burdens this year and remember how, at the center of the storm, there is still the peace and absolute “preciousness” of our fundamental human treasures:
Family
Memory
Mother Earth
Mortality
Eternity
Love
So here my summer has been- in between the moments that come and go..
“Getting it down, sorting it out so everything I care about is held in here, all of those I love, inside…”
The placing of one bruised foot in front of another day by day is as good as a mighty leap in such times. So I won’t be beating myself up for the posting gap. Just sharing a few of my snatched moments of skill-building and record-keeping. Not on shiny vinyl discs but scattered across my Procreate account and keenly etched on my heart.
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