17/03/2025 Rambling
17/03/2025 Been listening to a lot less emo at the moment. I've been listing to a lot of Mark Hollis, Bert Jansch, Talk Talk; they are artists on my mind at the moment. There is a way of writing music which is a lot more spontaneous, rather than compositional that I've come to really admire with the more folk elements of their music. It is not intended to be so moving in the way a lot of music usually is. A lot of music is moving because it's written that way. Whether through specific chords, intervals or simply through lyricism, but it just is , completely spontaneously and it's very touching. The sparseness of their records create a lot of weight and the crescendo's and climaxes are much more natural rather than formulaic. Makes for an incredible experience. I don't think this is an incredibly intelligent thing to write, but no one reads this blog any way so I don't really give a shit. A lot of my music has been completely collaged rather than one piece f...