Friday 12 November 2010

Nothing Rhymes with Nothing: Judee Sill.

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Music for your listening pleasure...


Heavily influenced by Bach's metric forms and suites, Judee was the first artist signed to David Geffen's 'Asylum' label.

She released two albums in the early-70's and then worked briefly as a cartoonist, before passing away in 1979 from a drug overdose at her appartment in North Hollywood.

She was only 35.

(Introduction by DJ Bob Harris...)




Love, risin' from the mists
Promise me this and only this
Holy breath touchin' me
Like a wind song
Sweet communion of a kiss

Sun, siftin' thru the grey
Enter in, reach me with a ray
Silently swoopin' down
Just to show me
How to give my heart away

And once a crystal choir
Appeared while I was sleepin' and called my name
And when they came down nearer
Sayin', "Dyin' is done",
Then a new song was sung
Until somewhere we breathed as one

Still I hear their whisper

Stars, burstin' in the sky
Hear the sad nova's dyin' cry
Shimmerin' memory
Come and hold me
While you show me how to fly

Sun, siftin' thru the grey
Enter in, reach me with a ray
Silently swoopin' down
Just to show me
How to give my heart away

And lately sparklin' hosts
Come fill my dreams descendin' on firey beams
I've seen 'em come clear down
Where our poor bodies lay
Soothe us gently and say,
"Gonna wipe all your tears away"

And still I hear their whisper

Love risin' from the mists
Promise me this and only this
Holy breath touchin' me
Like a wind song
Sweet communion of a kiss...




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