Her

When I need something quiet and soft for the headphones I tend to dial up Fat Jon’s Lightweight Heavy. I love the slow, dreamy quality of the album and how the tracks flow together so smoothly. To date I still can’t tell what half the sampled voices are saying on the various tracks but I’ve stopped trying to figure it out. Now I just lie back, close my eyes and let the lilting samples and shuffling beats empty my head of stressful thoughts and just drift for as long as I can.

Also, the track “Her” always reminds me of the Zen story, “One Note Of Zen”:

After Kakua visited the emperor he disappeared and no one knew what became of him. He was the first Japanese to study Zen in China, but since he showed nothing of it, save one note, he is not remembered for having brought Zen into his country.

Kakua visited China and accepted the true teaching. He did not travel while he was there. Meditating constantly, he lived on a remote part of a mountain. Whenever people found him and asked him to preach he would say a few words and then move to another part of the mountain where he could be found less easily.

The emperor heard about Kakua when he returned to Japan and asked him to preach Zen for his edification and that of his subjects.

Kakua stood before the emperor in silence. He the produced a flute from the folds of his robe, and blew one short note. Bowing politely, he disappeared.

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