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Music Week - Day 3 - Love and Friendship


Edited BY G P Kennedy  

Day 3 of Music Week takes us from West Africa to the normally bustling hub of Karachi, Pakistan. Here we find Tassy, our yoga expert, taking time out to contemplate love, family, and friendship, with two of her favorite songs.

Tassy - Karachi, Pakistan 

 

Rose Rouge – St Germain

 This song represents friendship. In our lives before Corona, which feels like an eternity ago but was actually not so far back, every weekend an intimate circle of friends we have known for almost thirty years, and in my husband’s case since childhood, would meet.


 Sometime soon after sunset around 7:30pm I would go to my living room, and set the tone and mood for the evening that would follow. Lay out the drinks, fill up nut bowls, light the candles, and put on my music.

                                    

 

My playlist invariably would start with this song, as it symbolized to me the start of my weekend, time to let my hair down, and savor the company and laughter and noise that would follow.


 Since my husband’s taste in music is very different to mine, we would always argue about what we would want to listen to. Fortunately we settled on a happy medium of contemporary jazz. The genre is actually Nu jazz, blending jazz elements with other musical styles such as electronica, funk and free improvisation.


 One reason why this song plays often in my house these days is because it reminds me of that happy time, with excitement in the house for friends coming over yet at the same time a source of “comfort” that my friends and I will meet again in better times. The song helps to liven my mood, and acts as a ‘pick me up’. I usually listen to this song in the late evenings these days. When the house is quiet, and the day’s activities are over.


No One – Alicia Keys

 I didn’t realize I was listening to this song more than usual until my daughter noticed and remarked. It doesn’t have any particular significance in terms of memories. I do prefer the acoustic version, and listen to it as background music while I write, paint, or sit in any one place for a certain length of time. I love her sultry voice.





 The music is mellow and calming, and the constant repetition of the words ‘everything’s gonna be alright’ is a positive affirmation which then continues to ring though my ears. 


 I figure there is a psychological element to it in terms of the uplifting words and catchy tune reverberating the message creating an instant mood lifter. Corny as it may sound, the song makes me feel more grateful being connected to my immediate family, and the fact that we are together during this crisis, to support and stand by each other.

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