A few weeks ago I posted a song by Pete Townshend that sounded, well, apocalyptic. His public work, especially with The Who, tended to be loud and aggressive, but always lyrically interesting. On his own, however, Townshend could portray myriad musical styles.
This is a quiet, personal song Townshend dedicated to the spiritual master Meher Baba, who was silent for the last 44 years of his life and communicated through his own unique language of hand gestures. If you've never seen film or video of this, his hands were beautiful and there was a captivating grace to their movement through the air. Silence punctuated by graceful gestures. Perhaps it is because people simply wouldn't listen to the mere speech of the tongue.
As one reviewer noted about Townshend's compositions, they always contain a certain tension in their musical construction and I find that interesting as well.
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