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Philip Glass

I was listening to a piece The Kuru Field of Justice - by Philip Glass. Music of awe, destiny, uncertainty, achievement and Joy. It made me find more about Philip Glass. I ended up listening to the soundtrack of Naqoyqatsi - seemed more about fear (and it is linked to technology, except not in a strange Matrix way - remember matrix's soundtrack?).

revisiting Titanic (James Horner)

My last.fm selected Titanic for me. It was only through this serendipity that I revisited this song, a long forgotten song that I had discovered in the first years of my juvenility. It only meant immaculate love back then and that is all it invoked.

Now, when I listen to it, the beginning is Irish influences. it reminds me of the bit of a folk-style, then the music builds up, the harmonies and orchestra evoke perceptions of eventualities, and overturns of time. The same music means different things now, a lot more things than it used. I feel I have stopped believing in the purest form of love, because I am unable. It feels as if I am incapable of feeling music purely too, because of this nature of analyzing things till it achieves meaninglessness. This vanity of having known things kills emotions, this illusion of having understood reality obscures experiences and poisons innocence. I think I understand now what Etienne gilson meant when he talked about responsibilities of an artist.

Antoni Dvorak - Symphony 9 in E minor

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/dvorak_sym9.html

- the grandeur of romantic era

Bossa Nova

Its only recently that I have started to realize that rhythm can be more important than notes in music. To some, rhythm is everything in music, but it was not as important to me. I mean, you can't imagine music out of rhythm, but I didn't understand how a certain rhythm would be more important than patterns of notes. It could be so because I am not so much of a dance person, or it could be just my ignorance to think that there is very little of creative ability in rhythms or that rhythms are only meant to accompany the rise and fall of notes.

It is funny indeed that I overlooked rhythm despite being from the country of 'tabla'. It could also be that I didn't even realize that rhythm-instruments are different because of tabla being a harmonic instrument too, unlike drums. Either way, I have discovered that rhythms are more than what inspires / provokes us to get on the dance floor. There is surely a lot of creativity that goes in rhythm.

Western music has discovered it twice or more i guess, first time playing with bossa-nova and the second time, dancing on hip-hop. Me, i would just stick to bossa nova for now; I think bossa nova is the best exhibition of rhythms. With French lyrics, I think some of the best pieces of what we know of music has been created on bossa nova.

(Recently I discovered bands like momotte, which are reliving the 60s in some way)

Unbelievable...

I linger between metal and classical while listening to online radio, quite extreme choices one would think, but that is my music taste.

Slowly over time, what last.fm did noticing this taste of mine was to introduce symphonic metal bands like Ensiferum to me that are somewhate half-way between Dmitri Shastakovsky and Dimmu Borgir. I have actually started symphonic metal quite a lot now.

Of course, there are bands like Kronos quartet which do some real eerie classical music, probably there are some gypsy roots in the music.

...I must say all this is magic for me.

Impressionist music

Even though claude debussy would not have ever liked the term impressionist music himself, the tag does fit very accurately to the music he created. His music is so vibrant, so filling that one is bound to compare it to impressionism in art.