chergonblues
03-22-2009, 08:40 AM
Somehow I always dig up this album at this time of the year...
Hmm... I'm writing this under the influence of sunshine and bright blue sky with fluffy clouds. It's a powerful psychedelic at this time of the year... Having lived in the middle of the woods most of my life, and still being a bit of a gardener, I'm very sweet on springtime, so this post might just get "a bit" syrupy, diabetics stay away...
Magnification has always induced very clear images of nature for me. I thought it might be the orchestra, but nowhere near all classical music does that. With Magnification, however, I get very defined and recurrent impressions of scenery, colours, sounds and the sound of silence, scents, the sense of space and movement, and the elegiac sense of waiting for the momentary paradise to come to an end.
Now I'm wondering if anyone else gets this or should I maybe check in for therapy? :crazy:
It'd be so easy to make a film out of this album. It's like "Spring In 10 Movements". Maybe that's why I like to listen to it in winter. It's comforting...
It sounds like snowdrops and bluebells on the forest floor in April, and don't tell me they don't make a sound. The wind is the air in forest's lungs and the plants as the vocal cords make the most wonderful sound...
Walking amongst them, you can still feel the last freezy breezes of retreating winter, but these little pioneers rise their blue and white heads with determination and courage, shiver a little but nevertheless spread their green leaves to greet the sun and bathe in it's protective warmth, knowing that day by day the nights get less chilly.
I especially love the low backing vocals in Don't Go. All the devastatingly dead-looking deciduous trees are suddenly in the bud and very much alive indeed, and even the bark of pines is somehow more tangible. You can smell it from a distance, you know?
And somewhere along Can You Imagine the butterflies, daffodils and dandelions burst in a yellow flurry, and you know full summer is just around the corner.
Give Love Each Day is pure sunshine. It's like the moment when all the seedlings you've planted in the garden have finally adjusted themselves to the wilderness outside of their windowsill nursery and start to grow for real. The moment when you can sigh of relief after all the threatening late frosty nights in May, and just soak in the sunshine.
Here in the North summer is very short and all the more vigorous, everything just explodes into one green thicket in June, stays that way for a short beautiful while and before you know, the first yellow leaves fall.
For that one short beautiful while you've got the mild summer nights when the sunlight reflects from the sky and bathes all the land in a clear and soft, fragile blue light. I managed to catch one of those moments a couple of years ago on a nightly cycle ride:
This photo was taken at 2am in midsummer night 2005 on the shore of lake Päijänne.
http://koti.welho.com/mkivin12/scene.jpg
This is just about what I see in my mind when I hear Dreamtime. And there you are, thinking you ought to enjoy this moment here and now but there's a little voice in your head saying "You know, two months from now it'll be +2 degrees and that birch will have turned to yellow". It's like you'd have to hurry to enjoy it as much as you can.
Somehow I find In The Presence Of a lot more autumnly than the other songs. The roses bloom their last efforts knowing the flowers may well freeze before withering away when the winter inevitably creeps back, but it's still worth all the beauty for the moment. It's a bit sad, but what are you going to do?
*sigh*
Pure imagination in a metaphoric dream?
To put it plain and simple, I love this album from the bottom of my heart. :hearts:
Hmm... I'm writing this under the influence of sunshine and bright blue sky with fluffy clouds. It's a powerful psychedelic at this time of the year... Having lived in the middle of the woods most of my life, and still being a bit of a gardener, I'm very sweet on springtime, so this post might just get "a bit" syrupy, diabetics stay away...
Magnification has always induced very clear images of nature for me. I thought it might be the orchestra, but nowhere near all classical music does that. With Magnification, however, I get very defined and recurrent impressions of scenery, colours, sounds and the sound of silence, scents, the sense of space and movement, and the elegiac sense of waiting for the momentary paradise to come to an end.
Now I'm wondering if anyone else gets this or should I maybe check in for therapy? :crazy:
It'd be so easy to make a film out of this album. It's like "Spring In 10 Movements". Maybe that's why I like to listen to it in winter. It's comforting...
It sounds like snowdrops and bluebells on the forest floor in April, and don't tell me they don't make a sound. The wind is the air in forest's lungs and the plants as the vocal cords make the most wonderful sound...
Walking amongst them, you can still feel the last freezy breezes of retreating winter, but these little pioneers rise their blue and white heads with determination and courage, shiver a little but nevertheless spread their green leaves to greet the sun and bathe in it's protective warmth, knowing that day by day the nights get less chilly.
I especially love the low backing vocals in Don't Go. All the devastatingly dead-looking deciduous trees are suddenly in the bud and very much alive indeed, and even the bark of pines is somehow more tangible. You can smell it from a distance, you know?
And somewhere along Can You Imagine the butterflies, daffodils and dandelions burst in a yellow flurry, and you know full summer is just around the corner.
Give Love Each Day is pure sunshine. It's like the moment when all the seedlings you've planted in the garden have finally adjusted themselves to the wilderness outside of their windowsill nursery and start to grow for real. The moment when you can sigh of relief after all the threatening late frosty nights in May, and just soak in the sunshine.
Here in the North summer is very short and all the more vigorous, everything just explodes into one green thicket in June, stays that way for a short beautiful while and before you know, the first yellow leaves fall.
For that one short beautiful while you've got the mild summer nights when the sunlight reflects from the sky and bathes all the land in a clear and soft, fragile blue light. I managed to catch one of those moments a couple of years ago on a nightly cycle ride:
This photo was taken at 2am in midsummer night 2005 on the shore of lake Päijänne.
http://koti.welho.com/mkivin12/scene.jpg
This is just about what I see in my mind when I hear Dreamtime. And there you are, thinking you ought to enjoy this moment here and now but there's a little voice in your head saying "You know, two months from now it'll be +2 degrees and that birch will have turned to yellow". It's like you'd have to hurry to enjoy it as much as you can.
Somehow I find In The Presence Of a lot more autumnly than the other songs. The roses bloom their last efforts knowing the flowers may well freeze before withering away when the winter inevitably creeps back, but it's still worth all the beauty for the moment. It's a bit sad, but what are you going to do?
*sigh*
Pure imagination in a metaphoric dream?
To put it plain and simple, I love this album from the bottom of my heart. :hearts: