Scattered Sun and Poetics of Sound
By The Parodist | August 1, 2008
It’s been a while since I last indulged my interest in music. I know that we can now easily find albums and download torrents online, I just think that it’s different when you hold the album in your hands. I guess since I’m a frustrated vinyl collector, I have to be content with the next best thing — CDs. Heh.
Rock tops my list of music genres and I’m partial to them old, classic rock bands. Of course, as a pseudo-musician like me, I enjoy listening to guitar riffs and bass lines. And there’s something magical about how these musicians seem like poets, if you listen to the songs they’ve written.
The Doors is one of the bands I’ve always been a fan of. Listening to their Scattered Sun album stirred unfamiliar memories; brings me back in time, in an era before I was born. It’s weird, actually. This fascination with periods that I have no knowledge of, just notions based on the things I’ve read and seen. Imagine yourself listening to Soul Kitchen and Light My Fire, you’ll understand what I mean. You’ll groove as Jim Morrison croons and tells you to keep the mojo risin’, baby.
And then there’s Jazz and Blues.. and the soulful trumpeter, Miles Davis. Now this talented man is good company on a night with a glass of merlot lost in a book. With the song It Never Entered My Mind playing in the background, you just might find yourself inspired to bare your own soul through your writing. His rendition of When I Fall In Love will let you feel how it really is to love. Without words. Amazing.
Having music in your life is simply awesome. It inspires me. It helps me express what I couldn’t bring myself to express. Music is like poetry to me. That’s why I listen to the sound that edifies my being. Perhaps that’s why I know what sort of music I like. I prefer to listen to the ones that would tell me about scattered suns and poetics of sound. They challenge thought and expose feelings.
What about you guys? What sort of music have you been listening to lately? Have you bought anything new? Can you say that the music you listen to adds value to yourself?
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