SOUL SURMISE

STOCKI'S AFRICAN MUSIC PLAYLIST

AFRICA WAVING - JONNY FITCH

(from https://jonnyfitch.bandcamp.com)

 

AFRIKA - ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO

46664 (Part 2 - Long Walk To Freedom)

 

WAKA WAKE (THIS TIME FOR AFRICA) - SHAKIRA

(from the single)

 

AFRICA - FAT AND FRANTIC

(from Quirk)

 

ASIMBONANGA - JOHNNY CLEGG AND FRIENDS

(from 46664 (Part 2 - Long Walk To Freedom)

 

FACTORY OF MAGNIFICENT SOULS - IONA

(from Circling Hour)

 

SING - ANNIE LENNOX

(from Songs Of Mass Destruction)

 

THERE WILL BE A TIME - MUMFORD & SONGS AND BAABA MAAL

(from Johannesburg EP)

 

MOVE ON UP (Feat BONO & JOHN LEGEND) - ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO

(from OYO)

 

DIAMONDS ON THE SOULS OF HER SHOES - LADYSMITH BLACK MOMBAZO

(from The Star and The Wisemen)

 

BANTU BIKO STREET - SIMPHIWE DANA

(from On Bantu Biko Street)

 

TIMSHEL (feat Mumford & Sons) - RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO

(from Rhythms Del Mundo Africa)

 

MYSTERIOUS WAYS - ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO

(from In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2)

 

SCATTERLINGS OF AFRICA (LIVE) - JOHNNY CLEGG AND SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR

(from Live at The Nelson Mandela Theatre)

 

GUMBOOTS (LIVE) - PAUL SIMON

(from The Concert In Hyde Park)

 

HOMELESS - LADY SMITH BLACK MOMBAZO

(from 46664 (Part 2 - Long Walk To Freedom)

 

PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE) - SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR

(from In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2)

 

REDEMPTION SONG - ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO

(from Spirit Rising)

WHEN A WIND COMES OUT OF NOWHERE...

We have many little hiccups leading up to our 2019 Fitzroy team to Uganda. When we boarded in Dublin for Addis Ababa and the connecting flight to Entebbe, I uttered the famous last words, "Nothing to think about now for 10 hours..." The flight was to touch down briefly in Madrid but a storm sent us off to spend a few very dull hours on the runway in Barcelona before flying back to Madrid. We were now 8 hours overdue and missing our Entebbe connection. This is my sobering meditation on such a day...

 

You can have your destination planned

And know exactly how you are getting there

Dates and times all on your ticket

“Nothing more to think about until you arrive”

Famous last words

Like certainty, 

Or ‘nothing can go wrong’

And “we have it under control”.

 

“Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere

And knocks you off your feet”

As Bruce Cockburn sings it

It can send you off course

Divert you to somewhere off your map

Towards worry

Anger

Frustration 

And weariness.

 

That wind and where it blows you

Cannot be eradicated

Or erased

God will not shift the weather patterns of the world

For your own self indulgence

Life is not the wind that blows

But how we respond when it does.

 

“Worry,” said the Master

“Adds nothing to your circumstances but worry”

“Surmise,” he went on,

“The Uganda Cranes as the fly

Or the sunflowers as the decorate a field

No toiling or spinning

But utterly beautiful.”

“Trust,” he teaches

“Brings a peace beyond understanding”

 

The breeze of the Spirit

Where it blows, no one knows

And so it is with all of those born of the Spirit of God 

Certainty gives way

To faith

And faith was the lesson of today.

STOCKI’S U2 CHILLED OUT PLAYLIST VOL 2

EVERY BREAKING WAVE

(from BBC Radio 2 The Piano Room)

 

STAY (FARAWAY, SO CLOSE) - CRAIG ARMSTRONG feat. BONO

(from As If To Nothing)

 

IF YOU WEAR THAT VELVET DRESS - JOOLS HOLLAND feat. BONO

(from MORE FRIENDS)

 

DROWNING MAN - MADELYN IRISH feat. BONO

From Bono: The  Complete Solo Recordings Vol 3)

 

ONE TREE HILL REPRISE (Brian Eno Remix)

(from Joshua Tree Super Deluxe)

 

SONG FOR SOMEONE (from Acoustic Sessions)

(from Songs of Innocence (Deluxe)

 

BOOK OF YOUR HEART

(from Songs Of Experience (Deluxe Edition)

 

AMERICAN PRAYER - BONO, EDGE, BEYONCE & DAVE STEWART)

(from 46664 Concert)

 

CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE - BONO

(from Honeymoon In Vegas Soundtrack)

 

A MAN & WOMAN (acoustic)

(from All Because Of You single)

 

I WANNA BE AROUND - BONO with TONY BENNETT

(from Tony Bennett Duets)

 

CEDARWOOD ROAD (from Acoustic Sessions)

(from Songs Of Innocence (Deluxe)

 

TOWER OF SONG - Leonard Cohen and U2

(from Window In The Skies  single)

 

A DYING SAILOR TO HIS SHIPMATES - BONO

(from Rogue’s Gallery - Pirate Ballad, Sea Song and Chanteys)

 

WHEN THE STARS GO BLUE - THE CORRS feat. BONO

(VH1 Presents The Corrs (Live In Dublin)

 

SHE’S A MYSTERY TO ME

(from All Because Of You single)

 

STARING AT THE SUN

(From Bono: The Complete Solo Sessions)

 

AVE MARIA (Jacknife Lee Mix)

(from Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own single)

 

MOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED (acapella)

(from Bono: The Complete Recordings 3)

BECOME THAT SONG (For Danny and Shannon)

Two becoming one

Into duo or duet

Like the sound of love the angels played

At that moment that you met

Two becoming one

Listen for the melodies

Oh so much more beautiful

In Shannon and Danny’s harmonies

In the verses of your lives

The middle eights of your vocations

Carry the chorus of the Kingdom

With redemption's reverberations

May the Moore’s become that song

Where the Word’s made flesh and moves

Into the neighbourhoods your called to sing

Jesus grace notes in every groove.

STOCKI’S U2 CHILLED OUT PLAYLIST VOL 1

FALLING AT YOUR FEET - BONO & DANIEL LANOIS

(from Million Dollar Hotel)

 

YOUR BLUE ROOM - PASSENGERS

(from Original Soundtracks 1)

 

NORTH & SOUTH OF THE RIVER

(from Staring At The Sun single)

 

TOMORROW - BONO & ADAM CLAYTON

(from Common Ground)

 

SATELLITE OF LOVE

(from One single)

 

TWO SHOTS OF HAPPY, ONE SHOT OF SAD

(from If God Will Send His Angels single)

 

I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN - BONO & FRANK SINATRA

(from Stay (Far Away, So Close) singe)

 

STATELESS

(from Million Dollar Hotel)

 

ONE - BONO & MICHAEL STIPE

(from Childline)

 

SLOW DANCING - with WILLIE NELSON

(from If God Will Send His Angels single)

 

DREAMING WITH TEARS IN MY EYES - BONO

(from The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute)

 

MISS SARAJEVO (Live In Milan)

(from All Because Of You single)

 

HALLELUJAH - BONO

(from Tower Of Song: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen)

 

STUCK IN A MOMENT (acoustic)

(from 7)

 

NEVER LET ME GO - BONO & MDH BAND

((from Million Dollar Hotel)

 

WALK TO THE WATER 

(from Joshua Tree (bonus disc)

 

ELVIS ATE AMERICA - PASSENGERS

(from Original Soundtracks 1)