Linda Perhacs - Call of the River

From an amazing album recorded by mysterious Linda Perhacs in 1970.




I'd like to add a part of a great book from Herman Hesse, Siddhartha, written in 1927:
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I cannot tell you what the other thing is my friend. You will find out, perhaps you already know. I am not a learned man; I do not know how to talk or think. I only know how to listen and be devout; otherwise I have learned nothing. If I could talk and teach, I would perhaps be a teacher, but as it is I am only a ferryman and it is my task to take people across this river. To all of them the river has been nothing but a hinderance on their journey. They have travelled for money and business, to weddings and pilgrimages; the river has been in their way and the ferryman was there to take them quickly across the obstacle. However, amongst the thousands there have been a few, four or five, to whom the river was not an obstacle. They have heard it's voice and listened to it.

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Siddhartha once asked the ferryman, 'Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?
Is this what you mean? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future?'
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'and when I learned that, I reviewed my life and it was also a river, and Siddhartha the boy, SIddhartha the mature man and Siddhartha the old man were only seperated by shadows, not through reality. Siddhartha's previous lives were also not in the past, and his death and his return to Brahma are not in the future. Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.'
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'Is it not true my friend, that the river has very many voices? Has it not the voice of a king, of a warrior, of a bull, of a nightbird, of a pregnant woman and a sighing man, and a thousand other voices?'
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'And do you know what word it pronounces when one is successful in hearing all its ten thousand voices at the same time?'
OM
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[vincentscotto081]

this is like finding a hidden gem..LINDA WHERE- EVER YOU ARE ,THIS IS UPSTAIRS STUFF ,HAUNTING HARMONIES MOVING IN SYNC, NICE.

[nostalgiahistoria67]

I'm a big fan of Linda Perhacs and her 'Parallelograms' album. This song and the album are classics!

[mysticdreamer1000]

This is just beautiful