Comments for Orchard Park Press http://orchardparkpress.org/home An Independent Publisher Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Club de Jazz presents… A Full Moon Party by Ellen http://orchardparkpress.org/home/a-full-moon-party/#comment-2969 Ellen Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:53:18 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=6877#comment-2969 I don't like jazz. And this album hasn't changed my mind. The last track was essentially grocery store 'muzak.' But I like the cover art and track titles. Don't hate me because I am mean. I do like Alvaro Macaya's sax-playing -- here and on The Snowman. The saxophone sounds 'doctored,' or 'prepared' somehow. Maybe I like the album, after all... I keep listening. I don’t like jazz. And this album hasn’t changed my mind. The last track was essentially grocery store ‘muzak.’ But I like the cover art and track titles. Don’t hate me because I am mean. I do like Alvaro Macaya’s sax-playing — here and on The Snowman. The saxophone sounds ‘doctored,’ or ‘prepared’ somehow. Maybe I like the album, after all… I keep listening.

]]> Comment on 2012: The Year of the 301 Redirect by Administrator http://orchardparkpress.org/home/two-thousand-twelve/#comment-2891 Administrator Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:24:16 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=6546#comment-2891 Thank you, Tracey! Thank you, Tracey!

]]> Comment on 2012: The Year of the 301 Redirect by tracey jaquith http://orchardparkpress.org/home/two-thousand-twelve/#comment-2885 tracey jaquith Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:26:21 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=6546#comment-2885 nice site! the layout and look of the albums is really wonderful! cheers! nice site!
the layout and look of the albums is really wonderful!
cheers!

]]> Comment on Winter Bird (Hudson River Eagle Animation) by Administrator http://orchardparkpress.org/home/winter-bird-hudson-river-eagle-animation/#comment-2855 Administrator Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:58:43 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=6782#comment-2855 Thank you, Jilly-Sue! You will have to wait until February for "Wild Fighting Horses," and even longer for "das Aufruhr," but I promise, it will be worth it. Love, Tommy Thank you, Jilly-Sue! You will have to wait until February for “Wild Fighting Horses,” and even longer for “das Aufruhr,” but I promise, it will be worth it. Love, Tommy

]]> Comment on Winter Bird (Hudson River Eagle Animation) by jill fahy http://orchardparkpress.org/home/winter-bird-hudson-river-eagle-animation/#comment-2854 jill fahy Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:59:46 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=6782#comment-2854 Tommy, this is wonderful! I felt like I was transported to an art house somewhere in Eastern Europe. The animation adds even more feeling and richness to the music. :) Give me more, more! Love you! J Tommy, this is wonderful! I felt like I was transported to an art house somewhere in Eastern Europe. The animation adds even more feeling and richness to the music. :)

Give me more, more!

Love you!

J

]]> Comment on Cimbria 3 by Administrator http://tomfahy.org/tyr/portfolio/cimbria-3/#comment-2658 Administrator Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:24:21 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=6479#comment-2658 More releases? I'm afraid not. Thank you for listening. More releases? I’m afraid not. Thank you for listening.

]]> Comment on Cimbria 3 by Ellen http://tomfahy.org/tyr/portfolio/cimbria-3/#comment-2565 Ellen Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:08:44 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=6479#comment-2565 Music for trapeze artists? I have listened to "Cimbria 3," "High Tea with Magellan" and "Duff," Byrne's album performed on a toy piano (a Schoenhut?). So far, this is my favorite. On what medium was this originally recorded? Tape? It sounds like tape, and I like it. Byrne's compositions are a little creepy, with a haunted playroom feel. I am betting she would have made an interesting live performer. Any other posthumous releases slated? Music for trapeze artists? I have listened to “Cimbria 3,” “High Tea with Magellan” and “Duff,” Byrne’s album performed on a toy piano (a Schoenhut?). So far, this is my favorite. On what medium was this originally recorded? Tape? It sounds like tape, and I like it. Byrne’s compositions are a little creepy, with a haunted playroom feel. I am betting she would have made an interesting live performer.

Any other posthumous releases slated?

]]> Comment on Aestrid by Ellen http://tomfahy.org/tyr/portfolio/aestrid/#comment-2563 Ellen Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:29:25 +0000 http://tomfahy.org/music/?p=340#comment-2563 I downloaded the album two years ago, still listen to it repeatedly, even while hosting parties, but have never given the artist love. My sincerest apologies. This is not typical Creative Commons music; I would gladly pay the price of a CD to listen to it. If I find a means to do so, I will donate. I promise. Keep up the outstanding work. Oh, and I hear John Larroquette even likes it... *** This is the review I posted at <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Aestrid_144" rel="nofollow">Archive.org</a>, then I found it here, too. *** What does "A.T.O.W." stand for? I downloaded the album two years ago, still listen to it repeatedly, even while hosting parties, but have never given the artist love. My sincerest apologies.

This is not typical Creative Commons music; I would gladly pay the price of a CD to listen to it. If I find a means to do so, I will donate. I promise. Keep up the outstanding work. Oh, and I hear John Larroquette even likes it…

*** This is the review I posted at Archive.org, then I found it here, too. ***

What does “A.T.O.W.” stand for?

]]> Comment on Wotan by Administrator http://orchardparkpress.org/home/wotan/#comment-1779 Administrator Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:55:49 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=5979#comment-1779 Thank you for your lovely comment, dear friend. Thank you for your lovely comment, dear friend.

]]> Comment on Wotan by Linden http://orchardparkpress.org/home/wotan/#comment-1775 Linden Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:20:21 +0000 http://orchardparkpress.org/home/?p=5979#comment-1775 WOTAN This piece of marvellous writing awoke memories of enjoying Jung many years ago and then later, being mesmerised by his long introduction to The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. It is here that Jung reveals himself as a ‘chronic thinker’ in contrast to the stark brevity of the Text he was introducing — the transmission of the One Mind: “There being no duality, pluralism is untrue.” And this is where Jung gets stuck - in conceptualisation. He discovers what he calls the ‘collective unconscious’ but holds onto individual ‘ego’. His insights, erudition, vast learning and dream experiences he saved and evaluated in the brain centre – he had not discovered another tool to upstream the brain’s dualistic reasoning . Thus his theorising about gods, archetypes, the subconscious, dreams... “...is a mixture of what is true and what is obviously not.”* Jung’s description of WOTAN (also known as ODIN) playing havoc in the 20th century world through “fantastic revolutions; violent alterations of the map, reversion in politics, persecutions of races, wholesale political murder...” hardly begins to describe the troubled 21st century world today. Jung sums up this general phenomena as “Ergriffenheit” – a state of being seized or possessed. Wotan, he says, is a ‘possessor’ of men. He describes the mind as “still childish that thinks of the gods as metaphysical entities existing in their own right, or else regards them as playful or superstitious inventions.” He theorises about Wotan as being a “psychic force”, an “archetype” within us (and particularly in the German people) hidden in the subconscious which erupts when the conditions are right. The discourses of the Buddha have numerous references to Brahmas (gods) appearing to pay respect to the Buddha and hear the Dhamma... Those disciples who had developed supernormal powers could visit the heaven worlds and communicate with the gods... (similar experiences are recorded by Yogis of different traditions...). Yet what appears to be first-hand and positive evidence to intuitively realised beings becomes of necessity second-hand to the student who may believe it, need not disbelieve it, but suspends judgement until he has experienced the existence of ‘gods’ for himself. (A method, a set of instructions and a map of how to do this is described in the remarkable book ‘CENTRE’ by Brian Taylor.) The fact is that gods exist. Few are interested in being ‘Ergriffenheit’ (out to possess beings) as they are too busy with the affairs of their own heaven worlds, but as Jung describes some like “Zeus” may help man against other gods. Jung doesn’t offer a solution to the problem of possession - whether as a German in 1914, or as a suicide bomber today. The answer is ethics. If a voice (or thought) incites you to do something that would harm another being – with ethical understanding consciously in place, the mind would have a safeguard from unwholesome influences. People are not puppets to Wotan but to their own impure minds – like metal filings to a magnet these latent tendencies within the mind attract (and are attracted to) the gods that have the same tendencies. Man freely chooses this. Man is free to choose not to follow hostile or aggressive thoughts towards others (and therefore is free from ever being ‘possessed’ by a war god). * 'Centre The Truth about Everything' by Brian Taylor WOTAN
This piece of marvellous writing awoke memories of enjoying Jung many years ago and then later, being mesmerised by his long introduction to The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. It is here that Jung reveals himself as a ‘chronic thinker’ in contrast to the stark brevity of the Text he was introducing — the transmission of the One Mind:

“There being no duality, pluralism is untrue.”

And this is where Jung gets stuck – in conceptualisation. He discovers what he calls the ‘collective unconscious’ but holds onto individual ‘ego’. His insights, erudition, vast learning and dream experiences he saved and evaluated in the brain centre – he had not discovered another tool to upstream the brain’s dualistic reasoning . Thus his theorising about gods, archetypes, the subconscious, dreams… “…is a mixture of what is true and what is obviously not.”*

Jung’s description of WOTAN (also known as ODIN) playing havoc in the 20th century world through “fantastic revolutions; violent alterations of the map, reversion in politics, persecutions of races, wholesale political murder…” hardly begins to describe the troubled 21st century world today. Jung sums up this general phenomena as “Ergriffenheit” – a state of being seized or possessed. Wotan, he says, is a ‘possessor’ of men.

He describes the mind as “still childish that thinks of the gods as metaphysical entities existing in their own right, or else regards them as playful or superstitious inventions.” He theorises about Wotan as being a “psychic force”, an “archetype” within us (and particularly in the German people) hidden in the subconscious which erupts when the conditions are right.

The discourses of the Buddha have numerous references to Brahmas (gods) appearing to pay respect to the Buddha and hear the Dhamma… Those disciples who had developed supernormal powers could visit the heaven worlds and communicate with the gods… (similar experiences are recorded by Yogis of different traditions…). Yet what appears to be first-hand and positive evidence to intuitively realised beings becomes of necessity second-hand to the student who may believe it, need not disbelieve it, but suspends judgement until he has experienced the existence of ‘gods’ for himself. (A method, a set of instructions and a map of how to do this is described in the remarkable book ‘CENTRE’ by Brian Taylor.)

The fact is that gods exist. Few are interested in being ‘Ergriffenheit’ (out to possess beings) as they are too busy with the affairs of their own heaven worlds, but as Jung describes some like “Zeus” may help man against other gods.

Jung doesn’t offer a solution to the problem of possession – whether as a German in 1914, or as a suicide bomber today. The answer is ethics. If a voice (or thought) incites you to do something that would harm another being – with ethical understanding consciously in place, the mind would have a safeguard from unwholesome influences. People are not puppets to Wotan but to their own impure minds – like metal filings to a magnet these latent tendencies within the mind attract (and are attracted to) the gods that have the same tendencies. Man freely chooses this. Man is free to choose not to follow hostile or aggressive thoughts towards others (and therefore is free from ever being ‘possessed’ by a war god).

* ‘Centre The Truth about Everything’ by Brian Taylor

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