Re: SoJ/I, Week Twenty: "Dragon Dreams"

As I've written before, I loved this music live but wasn't sure how it would
translate to cd.  When I listened to it the first time, I wasn't sure that I
thought it worked, but like Tracy, after listening to it again, I fell for
it.

David

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:31 PM, orange-clouds <at> sbcglobal.net <
orange-clouds <at> sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> yeah, you see what you think in a few days. i was not immediately
> impressed,
> but wow. i am now VERY impressed with this cd. i love it's pull to think
> better tho'ts, it's call to action, "come on come forward, my beautiful
> friend" jane (sorry it's just jane to me) has always been calling to me,
> trying to draw me out. i love this. i need this. i am so blessed.
>
> *B4B(B()
> B .b"B4 .b"*B4B() B8.b"*B()
> (B8.b"B4 B8.b"B4.Tracy
>
> --- On Sun, 6/21/09, Michael Williams <cyberry <at> earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Michael Williams <cyberry <at> earthlink.net>
> Subject: SoJ/I, Week Twenty: "Dragon Dreams"
> To: siblings <at> smoe.org
> Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 11:54 AM
>
>
> it's june 21, 2009. summer started today in my hometown (new york city).
> summer also started in the Yukon on june 21, and in most (but not all of)
> canada.
>
> and with summer's arrival, SoJ/I hits its final week, with "Dragon Dreams",
> the only entry from Issa - released in 2008, with eleven tracks. (the first
> track is an a capella snippet of part of the tenth track, "A Train Is
> Coming".)
>
> i listened to the album for the first time yesterday, and it's playing now
> in
> the background. it didn't "click" with me until "Oui Allo?". i like this
> song
> and some of the later songs. the album as a whole reminds me the most of
> jane's "Lips", and maybe "Hush" as well.
>
> seems perfectly appropriate for this to be an Issa release, and not a Jane
> Siberry release. the way i'm thinking about things at the moment is that
> Issa
> = certain parts of Jane writ large.
>
> i find these parts of Jane somewhat interesting, and sometimes
> entertaining.
> yet, unfairly to Issa, i keep looking for/hoping for the complexity of some
> of
> Jane's earlier work, mixed with the simplicity of some _other_ parts of
> Jane's
> earlier work, and don't quite see either in "Dragon Dreams".
>
> but it's only been one day. i'll see what i think in a few days.
>
> - michael