Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. there is a question over whether they can get together an Arab coalition willing to send in ground troops, we’ve seen a slow motion civil war there for many years and now the pace is accelerating … Yemen is really dissolving into a kaleidoscope of conflicting factions. The Saudis see a very dangerous situation - there are the Houthi rebels, who are a Shiite group which may be becoming an Iranian proxy, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the most dangerous Al Qaeda franchise. The process has become part of my subconscious and physiology. I find I don’t have to check the recipe to think about how many egg yolks to separate, where they go, or what comes next. Whether hiking, running, or baking, I am drawn by muscle memory and instinct. A kaleidoscope of images pops up as I build my own momentum. Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Naught be all else to me, save that thou art Thou my best thought, by day or by night Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. I get lost in the rhythm, my mind is released to think great thoughts or reflect on the mundane. Kings Kaleidoscope Be Thou My Vision Lyrics. Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. I was an adventuresome teenager and they were actively engaged in adventuresome music – they were playing my song and life was grand.Įnjoy the gig – it’s another side of the complex tapestry of the 60s, which provided the backbone for visions of the future.At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. This was the incarnation of the band I remembered best and enjoyed the most. Tonight it’s one of the eclectic gigs, and one of the politically-charged ones, from The Newport Folk Festival of 1968. Ironically, the band broke up shortly after, and went separate ways and on to separate successes. Until their final album and tour (which I saw late in 1969), where the band had all but abandoned Middle Eastern influences and settled into a country-rock frame of mind. You had to approach a Kaleidoscope gig with an open mind, because a: you never quite knew what you were going to hear and, b: the personnel of the band kept changing, and for the most part becoming more eclectic as time went on. Audiences were confused by the band, even in 1968 – and it was frustrating, because they were trying things most bands would later pick up in lesser degrees. Depending on the day, she shone different colors. Very much ahead of their times, and without a doubt one of the more politically charged bands playing in an already politically charged atmosphere, as is evidenced by this 1968 Newport Folk Festival appearance. Kaleidoscope lyrics performed by Levi The Poet: She had a stained glass window for a heart - a shoebox for a chest cavity, and a kaleidoscope for a soul that would reflect its light back at me. And for that reason they aren’t as well known these days as they should be. You couldn’t really pin down or pigeon-hole the music of Kaleidoscope.
Incorporating a wild array of Middle Eastern instruments and freely tossing World Beat rhythms into their songs – they were also die-hard folkies with a country-edge to them. francis MagalonaKaleidoscope were one of the more eclectic assemblages of musicians ever to hit the stage in the 1960s. Not to be confused with the UK Psych band of the same name, the U.S. Kaleidoscope – What’s Music without Anarchy? What’s Anarchy without Music?