"I've had too much to say in a language I don't speak..."
Transient, maybe a false memory or falling puzzle pieces in slow motion, so slow they almost look like they are standing still. These are some of the sonic imagery that floated in my head while listening to the dreamy "Journey" by Swiss songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist Unknown Vagabond. There is a lot to like, to get lost in, like the aloof vocal patter saying curious things, the sparking guitar patterns, cagey bass lines and off beat swings in the drumming patterns but especially, especially, the dense, lush keys. They, for me, feel like a collision of a Fender Rhodes, a Mellotron and Farfisa organ, gorgeous with jazz fusion under-currents and post art rock rippling waves splashing on the surface.
Yes. Thoughts, maybe improvised in an ID isolation tank or carefully constructed, therein lies the mystery. "I'm sorry, I have to go..."
-Robb Donker Curtius
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What is the advantage of being a musician today? - You can record an album alone in your basement. You play the instruments, sing, write the songs, learn the software, and nobody tells you what to do or how to do it. What is the disadvantage of being a musician today? - You can record an album alone in your basement. You play the instruments, sing, write the songs, learn the software, and nobody tells you what to do or how to do it. While you're doing that, you keep looking through the little window that lights up your basement. From that window, you see the infinite musical landscape. You see the genius of all those artists who shape and have shaped that bright landscape. Overwhelmed by so much light and brilliance, you quickly realise that your own music would be infinitely inconsequential in this landscape. That’s why you come to the conclusion that your music shouldn't leave the warm and cosy basement at all and you find peace with this. And so you spend years in your basement, sealed off from the outside world, with a small window where no one looks in. In this microcosmos you process life, try to grow up, and dream about the past and future. You sing, play, dance, laugh, cry, and record dozens of songs that no one but you will hear. And then, with an inexplicable change of heart, you suddenly open the small window and you wake up...
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kLxeqtT7ynmFOfvMM72Tc
https://www.instagram.com/unknownvagabondmusic/
What is the advantage of being a musician today? - You can record an album alone in your basement. You play the instruments, sing, write the songs, learn the software, and nobody tells you what to do or how to do it. What is the disadvantage of being a musician today? - You can record an album alone in your basement. You play the instruments, sing, write the songs, learn the software, and nobody tells you what to do or how to do it. While you're doing that, you keep looking through the little window that lights up your basement. From that window, you see the infinite musical landscape. You see the genius of all those artists who shape and have shaped that bright landscape. Overwhelmed by so much light and brilliance, you quickly realise that your own music would be infinitely inconsequential in this landscape. That’s why you come to the conclusion that your music shouldn't leave the warm and cosy basement at all and you find peace with this. And so you spend years in your basement, sealed off from the outside world, with a small window where no one looks in. In this microcosmos you process life, try to grow up, and dream about the past and future. You sing, play, dance, laugh, cry, and record dozens of songs that no one but you will hear. And then, with an inexplicable change of heart, you suddenly open the small window and you wake up...
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