Reading majic's journal

I've been thinking alot lately and just realized that there is a truely magical thing in this life that I had not fully comprehended until now. That is music and it's glorious properties... It has the power to heal, change mood, battle depression, conquer inhabitions and lighten life.

Music paints the soundtrack of our life, it can be a mechanism to describe our mood, our personality, our goals, our loves, our lives, our misfortunes and our successes. Music is powerful, emotional, unequalled and unparalled by most aspects of humanism with exception to religion.

Music is deeply part of my life and cannot be separated for if it was I'd fall into deep depression and dispair. I have different music for different moods, I have music to lift me up and music to exercise my frustration. I have music to pull out emotions that I have buried inside, I have music that relaxes me and I also have music that takes me from this material world and lets me escape into a religious sanctum. I have music for when I'm happy and for when I'm sad. I have music that puts me in a frame of mind suitable for doing things that I am nervous and apprehensive to do.

Music is a drug that helps me get through this hard and frustrating life. Music is a habit, an obsession and something I am not scared to say is an important part of my life. I shudder to think of what I'd become without the joy and incomprehensible beauty of music.

I often do as well.

I have similar taste in music to you (which has proven to be a blessing to us both) and I know just how amazing some peices can be. For example, 4 Strings - Revelation is probably my all time favourite, for my own reasons, I guess. I've also started to become quite taken with robert miles.

But yes, I know just how you feel. MY computer plays music damn near 24/7, and I wouldn't have it any other way. (as an audigy 2 ZS platinum owner, of course)

I should be ashamed of myself.

This post was edited by Aynjell on Sep 09, 2005.

If you think about it, our physiology is created through sound. Those little strings at the core of the universe vibrate and resonate together. Sound heals. Sound can hurt as well.

I feel a change whenever I play the Tibetan bowls.

I wonder if you have ever read Joceyln Godwin's Harmonies of Heaven and Earth? He is professor of music at, I forget where, and he is a music esotericist. It might not be up your alley, but then again, you might find it highly enlightening and fascinating, while listening to your chosen music of the hour. I'm glad I read this after being so pissed off at the apartment staff today. Maybe I'll just go listen to some "Wild Colonials", or some Yo-Yo Ma with Bobby McFerrin. By the way, I love Robert Miles too...I've liked him for a long time.

My mind is made up...not like my bed, which is a mess.

I wonder if you have ever read Joceyln Godwin's Harmonies of Heaven and Earth?

No I haven't but I will keep this in mind... =)

By the way, I love Robert Miles too...I've liked him for a long time.

There we go, now we can talk! There is just something about trance that I can't find in any other genre.

People used to warn me against listening to 'trance', because they said it would make me want to do drugs... I countered that it just made me want to drop the ragtop on my convertible, get someone else to drive the car, and lean back and look at the sky at sunset, with trance blaring on the radio. I feel 'high' listening to trance by itself.

I used to groove to that at work all of the time, it just gave me so much energy, which I passed onto the customers, and they gave back to me... and the music kept feeding in energy. I loved it! One big, happy family circle in the midst of trance, which feels more like the song of life to me than almost any other type of music, except classical.

As a side note, I just wanna say, that I rewatched The Red Violin last night. Joshua Bell, does the solo violin parts. Just exquisite. And I kinda feel like parts of the music are like rivers running over pebbles, and eddying around them, or sometimes a rushing waterfall, and it definitely has that climactic sexual experience going on. That sense of pent-up tension and release. Whereas, trance feels like pure openness from the get-go to me. I think I like both alot. As well as jazz, blues, and folk.

I do like some heavy metal, but a lot of it has a tendency to make me angry about stuff. It is right for certain moments, and not others. It all seems to be like a pharmacopia of medecine for the soul. As if your CD shelf where a pharmacy of sorts. Don't cha think?

My mind is made up...not like my bed, which is a mess.

This post was edited by rosyxxx on Sep 10, 2005.

I countered that it just made me want to drop the ragtop on my convertible, get someone else to drive the car, and lean back and look at the sky at sunset, with trance blaring on the radio. I feel 'high' listening to trance by itself.

Bless your heart Rosy!

Trance energizes me, lifts my mood and puts me in a place that I have not found in any other genre. Is there an urge to do drugs? No, but if life keeps kicking my ass there might be... Haha.. Just kidding.

Bless your heart Rosy!

Thanks majic! That's sweet and kind.

Trance energizes me, lifts my mood and puts me in a place that I have not found in any other genre.

I think I shall be listening to some of that as I drift off too sleep...I need my mood lifted a tad today. Unlike my boobs, which are perfectly fine. Heh. Anyway, today would be the perfect day for some Sasha, Kaistar, FSOL, amorphous androgyneous...Robert Miles, atb, Tipsy...

Tomorrow I think I am putting Tipsy's CD with the songs "Papaya Freeway", and "XXXmas" in the CD player, and still driving with the convertible top down, all the way through Forest Park. Or maybe I'll listen to the compilation CD she. It couldn't hurt, and it might help.

My mind is made up...not like my bed, which is a mess.

There we go, now we can talk! There is just something about trance that I can't find in any other genre.

Try doom metal. That one does it, too. :D
No, but what I'd really suggest is listening to some good tracks done by Summoning, the sound we'd all wanted to hear as the soundtrack for LOTR, but instead they chose some rather conservative way, using standard orchestra music X-(

Summoning is forming a very own sub-genre of Metal music called 'Tolkien Metal'. Yesterday I uploaded some selected songs of this band onto my mp3 player and, although it's turned off now, can still hear playing in my head, every part of it (right now, the song called 'Rhazad Dum'.

And if you're into heavier stuff, give Wintersun a try. Something in between Power and Black Metal mixed in unique ways with a different styles of (ab)using your voice (clean singing, high pitchted, growling, grunting, etc.) which all simply has this feeling of 'fitting'.

If you'd like to hear some 'black metal trance', then hear into some older stuff of Darkthrone. They (them music journalists) always call their sound 'trance-like' because the intruments blend and fade into each other just like it is done in Trance music tracks. Of course, I've get used to it ;)

For the experimental ones, I'd suggest Aborym - a bizarre, wicked cross-over jump-around of metal, industrial (NOT the idiotic sub-genre of pop-rock known in the US, but the one known in the rest of the world!), rave, trance and avantgarde music.

Just my .02 cent to this ;)
cu, w0lf.

Fuck off the 30 seconds posting limit!

I tried some d00m metal before but I can't understand anything they say and the music is usually so fast that I can't keep up.

Thanks for the links...

I tried some d00m metal before but I can't understand anything they say and the music is usually so fast that I can't keep up.

You're sure you're talking about Doom Metal, eh? Doom is SLOW and STICKY, like tar. Like Candlemass or Pentagram or St. Vitus or early albums of Abruptum (the current one actually is avantgarde / dark ambient). It's a wall of sound that'll drag you down, smash your surroundings just by being played very slow - and if it's good stuff, it'll help you back on your feet as well. ;)

Sometimes Black Sabbath are counted to this metal sub-genre, too. At least they're on of its ancestors/pre-creators.

You probably confuse it with Speed or Power Metal. First one is played extremely fast and sometimes putting in as many technical shit as possibly can fit in some 3-minutes-song , last one is mainly known because of the singers who mainly sound as if they've been castrated recently (e.g. Judas Priest, Blind Guardian or Iron Maiden).

cu, w0lf.

Fuck off the 30 seconds posting limit!

This post was edited by ginsterbusch on Sep 11, 2005.