Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
The song is Ophelia from The Bands comeback and swan song album Northern Lights Southern Cross. It was 1975 and it was their first album of all new original material in four years. The group had re-located to California from Woodstock and Robbie Robertson wrote all the material.
The Band's new sound is the result of a revolution in instrumental and recording technology and not of a revolution in ideas."Ophelia" is of interest principally because Garth Hudson has overdubbed an orchestra of brass woodwinds and synthesizers, and dovetailed all his instruments precisely into the deliberate pulsation of the tune's rhythm track.
In retrospect Northern Lights-Southern Cross with its themes of loss, displacement, and history sounds like a summation of their musical career It's almost a country album, heavily-influenced by folk, but the New Orleans horns return for "Ophelia," and the bluegrass opens up on "Acadian Driftwood," a rolling and affecting number.
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