I know nothing about music but I know what I like...

'People say, sometimes, timidly: I know nothing about music but I know what I like. But the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access to the dark night of the soul...

Recent listening and reading:
Edmund Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 - BBCSO, Sir Adrian Boult & Edmund Rubbra
Circling the Sacred Mountain, Robert Thurman & Tad Wise
Tales of Protection - Erik Fosnes Hansen
That Which Colors the Mind - Ali Akbar Khan, Zakir Hussain, Indranil Bhattacharya
Oriente Lux - Orpheus 21, Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall
Zen Roots - Red Pine

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