Musical Wash

A post about music? Why, how original! AAAHAHAHA shut it.

Anyway, I know you've heard me talk more than once about the type of music I find "good". Orgasmically good. Eyes-rolling-back-into-your-head-mouth-open-in-a-silent-scream-of-ecstasy good. Hooray imagery! Continuing though - you probably downloaded or listened to my recommendations and did the usual "oh, well this is nice." But of course, you might not have gotten that same gatspurt of power and emotion I felt whilst listening. So your day continued, unphased.

But I hope at some point, you find a song that does this for you. The kind of song that gives you immense pause in your life, and makes you want to do nothing more than blast the music until it fills every portion of your soul. Loud and powerful enough that everything else is forced from your mind and you're only left with note upon note, chord upon chord reveberating through your head and making your toes curl. Something I like to call a Musical Wash.

Most recently for me, a Musical Wash came in the form of "Dumbledore's Farewell" by Nicholas Hooper, which is off of the new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince soundtrack. Really, all it is is a building and crescendo of stringed instruments playing whole and half notes into some almighty peak of sound. I mean, honestly, I could hear the bassists yawning in the background and muttering something along the lines of "Whole note....whole note...HALF NOTE!....whole note...whole note...wholzzzzzzzzzzz." So it's by no means a technically challenging piece of art that will stand against time as a great composition.

But when I blast that song in my headphones, loud enough that every stroke of the bow on those violins actually pulls a bit of my brain with it, then it cuts me down to nothing. And I love it. Because afterward - when I've listened to that song 3 billion times in a row - I come out feeling refreshed and oddly dettached. Enough that I can stand back and just look at life. Look at what I've been walking around in and breathing in and, generally, just passing through.

If you don't have a song that allows you to do this, I suggest you get one. Music affords us an escape that we would be stupid to pass up, but sometimes it takes a bit of searching to find the song or artist in which that escape is hidden. In any light, good luck and happy searching.