Friday, July 10, 2020

My Rajneesh


An unintended theme is starting to emerge here.  Yesterday, we posted a track by the Dalai Lama, and today we have a track about Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh by Sufjan Stevens.  

But what a track it is!  In its 10½ minutes it goes from folk to folk-rock to orchestral to minimalism to ambient to chamber pop, stopping along the way to visit some genres that haven't even been invented yet.

Ostensibly the B-side to his similarly expansive single America, My Rajneesh could stand on its own as a career-defining composition for almost any musician.  But for the accomplished Sufjan, it's just something to drop on a Friday.  

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