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Category: ‘western’ musics

Ocean beach on a benign day (#68 in “a shining moment” series)

 

Near the northern tip of New Zealand’s North Island is the so-called Ninety Mile Beach”.

It is no less magnificent for its actual length –  “only” 88 kilometres.

Musically, today offers a sublime, spacious, shore-inspired instrumental solo, plus an also-spare song which depicts a lovely state of mind:

lost in a seagull’s flight

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Mélodie au crépuscule (#67 in “a shining moment” series)

 

The pictured twilight is in a beautiful part of Australia’s southwest – a so-called “valley” which many people repeatedly drive past without ever seeing, as they rush further “down south”…to “Marg’s”.

Mélodie au crépuscule is a beautiful composition which was NOT composed by Django Reinhardt.

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Quiet now: “snake bird” in repose (#66 in “a shining moment” series)

 

An attentive observer, watching a non-sleeping bird, will very rarely see a serene creature.

For most of their waking moments, most birds are obviously keenly aware of their vulnerability to predators, their opportunities as predators, and/or of how best to defend or advance their “place” within an ever-competitive hierarchy.

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“Timeless” 2 (#64 in “a shining moment” series)

 

This is a sequel to yesterday’s post, which addressed the very same tree and the same tune.

This post’s photo was taken a very few minutes after yesterday’s, in essentially the same conditions; “today’s” bark also sits on the lower trunk, and is less than a metre distant from “yesterday’s”.

The particular quartet responsible for “today’s” performance is a splendid foursome who never existed as a regular unit, nor ever made a studio album, as such.

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“Timeless” 1 (#63 in “a shining moment” series)

 

In one sense, absolutely nothing is timeless, most especially living things.

In another sense, however, many things are timeless –  no matter how many times we see or hear or feel them, some things always reward our attention.

Today’s post and tomorrow’s post address the same, individual tree, and the same piece of music, with its composer present on both (different) occasions.

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