Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Friday, 17 July 2009
when it all started
When I was a little boy I just couldn't stand the scandalous guitar solos of Led Zepellin, or the long haired guys of Deep Purple singing "smoke on the water and fire in th sky..." well, it was a lot to take to a 7 year-old boy! I even remember a cousin of mine playing the mimic of a guitar solo, with the headphones put on and lain on the rug like having a stroke or epileptic attack while listening to a Hendrix's song.
It was definetely my first encounter with this music, unable to understand it, I did not use to like it honestly, then back in 1998, in the middle of my living room, while my brother and I were decorating the Christmas tree, there was in the back a song called "let love rule" I know it was a Lenny Kravitz's hit, but, what I didn't know, was that it was a reminiscence of the psychodelic style of the late 60's.
This was my first, but not my proper awakening*, but this experience let me walked into the musical significance of psychodelic music, which really marked my life and allowed me to be introduced into this particular path.
*awakening: It refers to the first drug experience of young people in the 60's, conducted many times by a guru and most of the times accompanied by rock psychodelic music.
It was definetely my first encounter with this music, unable to understand it, I did not use to like it honestly, then back in 1998, in the middle of my living room, while my brother and I were decorating the Christmas tree, there was in the back a song called "let love rule" I know it was a Lenny Kravitz's hit, but, what I didn't know, was that it was a reminiscence of the psychodelic style of the late 60's.
This was my first, but not my proper awakening*, but this experience let me walked into the musical significance of psychodelic music, which really marked my life and allowed me to be introduced into this particular path.
*awakening: It refers to the first drug experience of young people in the 60's, conducted many times by a guru and most of the times accompanied by rock psychodelic music.
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Psychodelic music
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see...this is an extract of a song coming from the Beatles, which relates in a certain way the way of living in the late 60's: being free, love your neighbour and get "stoned". Psychodelia or Pyschodelic music refers to experimentation in music, just like experimenting with drugs, fashion, ideas, furniture and decoration, political ideas, images, and of course sounds and instrumental forms in music.
In an approach, many musicians of that decade tested with drugs and other pharmaceutical items to "trascend through music", as a consequence, and with an excesive abuse of prohibited substances, many well known artist of that time passed away, leavin as their legacy their art.
Tradicional people would agree that drugs are impproper, as well as other over reactions like violence, noise and aggressiveness in any form are inconvenient, unsuitable and out of place.
Nevertheless, by itself psychodelic music brought of the opportunity for artists and musicians to create a whole different spectre in musical industry, transforming sounds, and going beyond, I mean, transforming lives radically and enourmously, so that as consequence we can distinguish in current rock bands the echos of that era.
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