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music as milestone | |
August 16th, 2019 | |
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Passing through major change makes itself manifest in a number of | |
ways. For me, one of the most notable is a musical genre shift. | |
At the end of a long and tumultuous relationship I set out on | |
a thirteen hour drive home, newly single, skipping through | |
stations at 5am in search of something to capture the hole I felt | |
inside. I caught the beginning of Mountain Stage on NPR (National | |
Public Radio) as a trio was just starting out. The band, The Be | |
Good Tanyas [0], are a folk/Americana band from Canada. They | |
started out their set with a cover of the gospel song, "In My Time | |
of Dying", most famously performed by Led Zeppelin & Blind Willie | |
Johnson [1]. | |
[0] The Be Good Tanyas | |
[1] In My Time of Dying | |
There it was, the resonating echo of my inner self. I was hooked | |
and would go on to binge the bluegrassy/folk/Americana | |
scene--especially the likes of Jolie Holland--to great depths over | |
the next few years. It was a music for the time. | |
Years earlier I experienced something similar with Enya that you | |
can all thank for my multi-hour "All Enya" streams on tilderadio. | |
Joining the Navy took me on a wild ride of electronica and | |
euro-vocal-trance. My time in Alaska introduced me to the depths | |
of Nordic electronic minimalism. | |
And so, with the move to Iceland I expected something to develop. | |
I know that my tastes would shift. I already adore so many | |
Icelandic bands, would that grow and encompass a major part of my | |
life? Would I slide deeper into the fediverse's obsession with | |
vaporwave? Apparently the answer is no. | |
Somehow--illogically--I've found myself listening to Reggae [2,3]. | |
[2] Mike Love - Permanent Holiday | |
[3] Chronixx - Here Comes Trouble | |
I'm not sure if I can say definitively that this is my new jam, | |
but it sure is happening a lot. I guess it proves that you can't | |
predict what the future will hold. | |
What are your signs of change? Do you change tastes in music like | |
me, or is it something else? Change nicknames? Take up new | |
hobbies? |