On days that the sun is lacking from the proverbial sky, I like to channel the sunshine by spinning some Roy Ayers.
This talented, prolific and deeply funky American composer is someone that I often return to time and again when I need a vibe check.
What is a vibe check? Well, I don’t know if I’m supposed to tell you about that since I read that ‘vibes’ are out for 2023 because Vibes are Only ever in a Superposition of States, to quote David Zilber.
Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured, or in other words, vibes simultaneously take place constantly over and under every possible trajectory possible until you stop to check them. While you’re at it, check the Rhime too. It’s like changing your oil or flossing-you gotta do it to stay on point. We know what happens when we get off point…ahem…
Roy Ayers, 82, (born September 10, 1940 in Los Angeles CALI, USA) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk (read more via wiki)!
Putting on a Roy Ayers track is like turning on the sunshine on your usb placebo lamp to 3000 watts. You can feel it in your eye sockets, but in a warming, melted + grilled cheese kinda way. The good way.
I’m talking about the way you feel when you step over a mountain and around an alpine lake and into a rolling valley at the peak of springtime, flowers going off. The sky is blue and the sun is warming the back of your neck. Before you all you see are dusty-pink-petaled azure centered anemones and clumps of bright yellow blossoms of glacier lilies. And a bird or two. Floating leisurely across the sky. You take a sip of water. You’re hydrated properly. You take a deep breath and—
You feel the inner connectedness of all beings.
You finished the puzzle with the final piece.
You’re satisfied.
If you still don’t get what I mean that’s fine because I created a special Roy Ayers Sunshine Summoning Playlist just 4 u…
:please enjoy:
Listen on Apple Music.
Listen on Spotify.
I’ve shared this live video of Roy Ayers once before but it really is necessary for you to maybe…watch it again? (Yep, I think that’s a key-tar! Lots of good stuff happening in that video).
Roy Ayers also played the vibes on Whitney Houston’s Love Will Save the Day :
Sea anemones versus the vibes of Anemone in the buttercup family:
It’s all about letting the sun shine in our minds during this szn, amiright?
Here is a Mary Oliver poem that I love brighten up on cloudy days.
Also, this turtle and I have a thing or two in common…!
Happy day to you-it’s the only Wednesday January 11 2023 you’ll ever get ;-)