Contributed by Matt Hope
Alien Death Spike
Often, I am asked to write music reviews focusing on the details behind music. The details behind all of the sounds, the recordings, the song, the strumming, the relaying of samples and often I could not care less about this. Often I am fearful of these details and what they may do to change my idea and perception of the music I here. Especially in the context of most modern music.
"Oh, it's just a couple of Guys.",
"Oh, its a group of young girls.",
"Oh, It's someone I already know about"
"Oh, They're from Sheffield"
Maybe I am a victim of my own imagination but I dread these details most of the time. These facts of reality often change my idea of the music in permanent way and therefore change the things I think about when I hear the music. It grounds my flight of fantasy and anchors my float into a dream.
When I have interviewed musicians, they usually seem to find the idea of talking about themselves mundane and boring, simply passing detail on the facts of their own existence - born here, grew up there, went on to so and so and met thingy who later became drummer, worked with... la di da...
I prefer to dream, to allow the music to trigger my psyche into where it takes me, to feel what corresponds to the sounds from my own mind, how i psychologically interact with music, an acoustic interaction and aural installation.
Maybe this is why I admire such artists as Daft Punk whom maintain their real identity and prefer to remain 'Robots' in the public eye. It adhere's to the theme of their music, much as a magician never reveals the reality of his tricks, it would, quite simply, evaporate the illusion.
How important is it to know about the musicians?
If their past is indeed an integral part of their writing and expression then please come forth.
Though if the artist is writing to escape the painful normality of their lives then what significance does this hold against a music that comes from an adversity of there own escapism?
I prefer to dream,
Unless the real artist is something I cannot imagine; Afro-swing : Swedish Screamcore : Californian Wonky : Russian Cosmic Disco : Japanese Rockabilly : Brazilian Baille Funk.
From a place I've never 'been to' ?
Contributed by Matt Hope
Big, big music fan.....huge!
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