{"id":28,"date":"2006-04-24T21:34:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T05:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muzeo.com\/archives\/28"},"modified":"2006-04-24T21:34:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T05:34:25","slug":"music-to-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/music-to-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"music to the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heard a song entitled “Why I Do These Foolish Things<\/strong>” by the Magicians (Villa Records, 1964), a local Bay Area band, which strongly brought back the same exotic attraction I experienced when listening to the Miracles “Who’s Loving You” (the B-side of “Shop Around”) back in high school (or was it 8th grade).<\/p>\n

I listened intently and enthralled so many times to Smokey’s delivery on that little 45 that his intricate melodic improvisations are still tattooed on my heart. That song lived in a place beyond the boundaries of my typical musical taste: I found it oddly mesmerizing, and strangely beautiful. Almost dangerous, certainly seductive. Like it wasn’t supposed to work, and yet it did.<\/p>\n

The Magicians lead singer rode the same raw energy and transported me to a long forgotten place where one can feel attraction to a thing not entirely conceivable. Foreign yet hauntingly familiar. A structure that teeters on the edge of competence, yet against the odds stretches well above the clouds…<\/p>\n

Makes me wonder what else they recorded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heard a song entitled “Why I Do These Foolish Things” by the Magicians (Villa Records, 1964), a local Bay Area band, which strongly brought back the same exotic attraction I experienced when listening to the Miracles “Who’s Loving You” (the B-side of “Shop Around”) back in high school (or was it 8th grade). I listened… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,11],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darma","category-misc","category-tunes","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fNAG-s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aye0.com\/darmablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}