music for the senses

i think i've fallen in love again with psytrance...

i did fall in love with it once, but as every relationship it has its ups and downs... but right now i feel it like that very first time =)

many people might say it's just some kind of dance music (bakalao some would say in spanish...), and actually it kind of is, but not only... [beside the awfully wide range of subgenres, but that would be another post] it has so many levels, so many details, worlds within worlds... music for the senses, i would say.

trance is not only music they say... and well, it is just music, but it represents [and comes together with] much more than that. another way of thinking, of feeling, other levels of consciousness and understanding...

but being a music with so many things attached, or attached to so many things, it obviously affects your state of mind and is affected by it.  

and in mozambique i've had a weird relationship with it because of this. at the beggining it was one of the few things i clung to, at some point there was too much to handle and i just rejected it, almost couldn't stand it even, and as the time to go back was coming closer it started coming back in little by little... but it didn't make complete sense yet, i don't really know why. i did like it as much and all of that, but for some reason it wasn't the same. i guess it was pretty much like my state of mind actually... i didn't feel part of here, neither there, and i was all questions and no answers.

and then i came back to mozambique and after a few days this album had the same effects as frangipanis the third day in maputo...

since then psytrance in general started recovering all its brightness, its magic... made me travel again into every sound, or with every sound, feel the music from the inside and not just hearing it through the ear...  

... or was it me the one coming back to that consciousness...?

celtic cross - hicksville [download]