Hello internet pals of music. Today we’re easing back into the intervoid with some lush psychedelic gospel.
Your god is your own business.
And how you worship is your own business, until it becomes other people’s. If asked, my reply is now just that I believe in math.
But math can’t calculate faith. And one always has to be able to find faith or else this ongoing crash test we’re all thrust into just crystallizes all the warmth and softness we’re born filled with, meant to carry us to our inevitable end.
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It’s test after test after test though where maybe you build that faith best. Like flying a plane across the Atlantic, passing the point where there’s no option but to fly into the frightening uncertainty rather than to turn around and head back to the safe and familiar—there’s only so much fuel you can carry. You can put your faith in something: your god, yourself, or mathematics. The faith is the fuel, not the vessel you pour it into. Or something.
This isn’t actually the same band that released I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) in 1967. This according to my very brief googling, is essentially a David Axelrod album. And if you were / are a 90s hip hop sample nerd you’d recognize Axelrod because of Dr. Dre, DJ Shadow, Tribe, Beatnuts and a shopping list of other records that are probably now way overpriced on discogs. This also features legendary LA session players Carol Kaye on bass, Earl Palmer on drums and Howard Roberts on guitar.
Be your own gods. Or follow one. Or do calculus. Doesn’t matter, just keep faith.
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