I haven’t posted on this blog for the past two years, and so it felt only fitting that my first post in a while would be about my Dad. I was looking through my comments page, and a whole fresh wave of grief washed over me as I read all his messages. He commented more than anyone else. He was the sweetest. Here is one comment that is just the essence of him, from “Two Days in The Calanques” PiperWhat…
With influences from soul and reggae to jazz and gospel, Shan makes her music distinctive through an inspirational tone and a voice that holds the listener rapt.
In Better Than I Imagined, the listener floats on H.E.R.’s velvety “heys”, her voice syrupy over the clear notes of the piano keys and bright drum beats. There’s a mellow jazziness to the song that soothes despite its treatment of a conflicted relationship.
In French you don’t say “I miss you” but rather tu me manques— “you are missing from me”— which I think is wonderfully poetic. Being in France away from home, it strikes me how accurate that phrasing is. Despite my love of being here there are moments when I feel an acute sense that home and loved ones are missing from me, as if a hollow space has been carved out from my chest. Sometimes when my mind drifts to…