another life / oh allah

this and sita ram recorded on this day in 1971 - alice coltrane, jack DeJohnette, jimmy garrison and string section. oh the perils of relying on wikipedia - actually the sleevenotes say oh allah, universal consciousness (track) and hare krishna recorded this day - sita ram not recorded until 14th may (rest of album recorded june 19th)

actually horsemouth is visiting his parents in the countryside and will not be back for a while.

so another life (yuri trifonov) has ended - we are told the husband is dead, a tale told in flashback, the husband gets interested in spiritualism, then one day there’s a workers outing to the forest (to pick mushrooms) they got lost but are directed back towards the road - the daughter appears aged 12 - and then we realise the husband is dead. the end. like the mill on the floss they are dead before they know it. (curiously enough it was almost exactly a year ago that horsemouth was reading this).

he’s a right awkward cuss the husband (in another life). horsemouth became convinced he was someone he knew - present company excepted of course.

horsemouth is  plotting his escape to ireland for the summer (if they’ll let him in by that point). very little left to do workwise now. he’s sort of in the wrong trade. horsemouth is a little bothered by the prospect of upcoming summer poverty (but he doesn’t really have a solution at the minute - get a job he can hear you yelling).

horsemouth thinks the reason for the dip in his mood recently is twofold - first he has played and sung and had a social life but this hasn’t resolved his problems because there is still more to do, secondly he hasn’t played, sung etc. for a while so this is making him angsty too. whe he returns he will have to steam into preparations for a gig.