[ First published on Facebook 3 October 2015 ]
For my generation, Pink Floyd’s 1973 breakthrough album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was a seminal moment, for all sorts of reasons I won’t even try to go into here.
More than 40 years on, some of its music still stands comparison with the finest, not least in the plangent piano-and-improvised-female-vocal section of ‘The Great Gig in the Sky.’
There’s something about a female voice singing without words that—for me at any rate—goes straight for the emotional jugular.
This is ‘Eternal’ by southern-Spanish artist Nacho Sotomayor (you’ll note the Moorish influence in the vocal phrasing). Listened to it several times, assailed each time by feelings of immense, unutterable longing—although again, maybe that’s just me . . .
Came across it via Spotify, using their radio-station option with Buddha Bar as the base. How lucky we are these days to be able to get genre music app-chosen, internet-streamed, and through the witchcraft of wireless piped to the hi-fi, tv, soundbar, wherever . . .