Name: feathery soul by woe
Duration: 4 min 14 s
Description: Sampled from : Yusef LATEEF "Love theme from The Robe" (1961)

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Sampled from : Yusef LATEEF "Love theme from The Robe" (1961)

feathery soul

On May 10, 1996, three officers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Tsewang Samanla, Dorje Morup, and Tsewang Paljor, were part of a six-man expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.  Delayed and facing a storm, the three decided to disregard orders and press on while the rest of the team turned back.  Around 18:00 the climbers radioed their expedition leader back at base camp to inform that they had reached the summit.  While credited with summiting, whether they actually reached the summit or not is to this date debated.

These two songs wouldn’t exist if not for the irony surrounding the perishment of one of the climbers, Tsewang Paljor.  The irony is that Paljor became famous not in life but in death and simply because of the fact that his lifeless, frozen body, which no person or entity cared to remove from the side of the trail for at least 19 years, ended up becoming a landmark and reference point to climbers, his humanity reduced to an almost comical nickname stemming from the mountaineering boots on his feet and their bright yellowish-green color.  A Google search today of the keywords “Tsewang” and “Paljor” brings up, as the first result, a Wikipedia article entitled not “Tsewang Paljor”, but “Green Boots”.

“Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 1: Ascenso y muerte” is my reflection on Paljor’s resolve to climb, then the climb itself, then the summiting (or the thinking they had summited), and finally the descent and the exhaustion, confusion, and acceptance of defeat that probably came with it and the probable realization of impending death that frozen night as he lay curled up on his side, donning his brightly-colored mountaineering apparel, under a crevasse at the side of the climbers’ trail at 28,000 feet.

“Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 2: Fiesta en Leh” is an imagination of a summer day that Tsewang could have enjoyed as a young adult in his hometown’s capital, Leh, with friends and perhaps one or two love interests at hand.  An experience he might have remembered about during those few final minutes of his life.  

About the song names:  That isn’t me trying to be the most righteous of the lot.  Like, “look, I even include his military rank before his name, while everyone else just calls him ‘Green Boots’.”  I’m not trying to be judgmental or pretentious.  In fact, up until the last few minutes the songs were going to be called “Helado en altura 1” and “Helado en altura 2”.  “Helado en altura” translates roughly to “Ice cream at high altitude”, and is a pun because in Spanish “Helado” can also mean a frozen person, animal or thing.  So, for the cover artwork, I literally searched for frozen corpses in snow-capped mountains.  Not necessarily with those keywords.  And happened on Green Boots.  It was like the third result.  But ultimately, I felt it would be in bad taste to be so literal and use the pic and do the pun and all that.  In a way, the song titles are an atonement for my previous intentions.  And a pair of songs to honor a man who found very little dignity in death.  Some may point out the old adage that there “is no dignity in death”.  I’d say as so much else in life, that it’s a matter of degree.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and above all listen.  I hope you “get” the songs, and above all, enjoy them.  (No pun intended with “above”.)

Note:  from the information I had access to on the World Wide Web, Paljor’s body has not been officially identified or removed to this day.  However, it was last reported seen in 2015.  Its current location and state is, to the best of my web knowledge, unknown.

Jefe de condestables Tsewang Paljor, parte 2: Fiesta en Leh

drama

So Wonderful

DISTRICT

Got up and I went for a walk
When I got back you still were a-
Sleep
Guess you need your rest

Went to make myself some oats
While you're putting on your clothes, I said
Please
Please please seize the day
Please
Please please seize the day

It's already a quarter to 1
You're wrapped up in YouTube and fun
I need (Need)
Need you to seize your day

Now we're at each other's throats
Turns out we're in different boats
Well this I cannot budge
Not for you and no one else

Got up and I went for a walk
When I got back you still were a-
Sleep (Sleep)
I'm gonna let you do it your way
I'm gonna let you do it your way
I've got to let you do it your way

So sleep (Sleep)
And I'll see you when you're awake
Sleep
I'll see you when you're awake

Please

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2.Here's JohnnyBeBad (Deep Cover Remake)(prod. Jeff Durant)
3.The Philosopher (prod. Jeff Durant)
4.Pepperoni Toppings (prod. Thug$ Bunny)
5.Dark Matter (prod. Midas Cash)
6.Dark Fruit (prod. Thug$ Bunny)
7.Outro (prod. Thug$ Bunny)

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Even Now 151 (c) sherry steiner 2024
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Neoclassical
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