What can transform us, inspire and grip us, in an emotional embrace that lifts us, and throws us into a state of mind uncertain but welcomed too?
What is exhilarating and yet both soothing and exhausting too?
Think of Sex, didn’t you? The “rock me gently, rock me slowly” rhythmic beat that so attracts us. Yet there is something as powerful, and certainly longer lasting we desire. Music. Yup, just some old fashion tunes that beat into our hearts, minds and psyches too.
Imagine the blended chaos that you can find in Jazz that combines into musical magic, or the emotional high of Blues Music, with its historical cultural blends that touch your heart. Need to jump up and dance?
Every possible Caribbean Tune will soothe you and then energize your body and soul. Music is movement both physically and within your mind. The legends of music’s controlling nature are found in The Blues, a healing rhythm for your searching, tired mind.
Get your favourite beverage, lay down on your couch, close your eye and listen to Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain. A classic that I first heard as a child. In my young mind, I envisioned superior movement, of wind and nature, at first soothing and then every so rising energy too. Music can soothe you, embrace and hold you. Music can also grab you by the neck and lift you to heights you cannot imagine. Up and down, in and out of reality and imagination, music allows you to travel the full spectrum of life. What gifted music truly is, is a spiritual gift offered to us by a multitude of creative beings like us. Humanities gift to itself.
Imagine…
WELL, I HEAR THE MUSIC
CLOSE MY EYE”S< FEEL RHYTHM
WRAPAROUND< TAKE HOLD OF MY HEART.
TAKE YOUR PASSION
AND MAKE IT HAPPEN
PICTURES COME ALIVE
YOU CAN DANCE RIGHT THROUGH YOUR LIFE.
NOW I HEAR THE MUSIC
CLOSE MY EYE”S, I AM RHYTHM
IN A FLASH IT TAKES HOLD OF MY HEART.
(thank you Irene Cara-Flash dance)
I am a lover of music, without the ability to make a rhythmic sound, but while a partaker of this magical inspirational sound I marvel at its transforming touch.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
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