Nils Landgren
Get Here

For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.

 

We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.

Award-winning Nils Landgren is a fine Swedish trombone player. He is often called 'The Man with the Red Horn' - obviously because he plays a red trombone. You can read more about him and his music here. He also sings and this performance of Get Here with drummer Wolfgang Haffner's Dreamband is is rightly described by YouTube viewers as 'beautiful' and 'sublime' - it is ideal for stopping and relaxing for this month's break. 

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You can reach me by railway
You can reach me by trailway
You can reach me on an airplane
You can reach me with your mind
You can reach me by caravan
Cross the desert like an Arab man

I don't care how you get here
Just get here if you can

 

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American-Canadian singer / songwriter Brenda Russell wrote the song 'while staying at a penthouse in Stockholm : the tune came to her as she viewed some hot air balloons floating over the city, a sight Russell recalls set her "really tripping on how many ways you can get to a person" (the eventual song's lyrics include the line: "You can make it in a big balloon but you'd better make it soon") ......  the song was still in the singer's mind when she woke up the next day: "I don't read or write music [so] it's extraordinary if a song is still in my head that I haven't jotted down or recorded. So if it's still in my head overnight, I think that's something extra special, it's like somebody trying to tell me something."