I keep learning about listening to music. These days I listen to some albums I’ve let go for a while due to not having time, or patience, to discover the beauty, and spirit, and sense.
Last week it was one of the bands that inspired me greatly for 2.5 decades – Voivod. When their latest album Synchro Anarchy came out, I felt like it was no different from a couple of recent minidisks they have released. Then half a year or so later, I’ve reminded myself this is a band that requires to be chewed on over the course of time to really taste it. I’ve also reminded myself that when its predecessor, The Wake album, came out, I didn’t care for it, and it was a couple months later that I sat down and listened to it again while reading the lyrics along to it and loved the experience. So I did the same with Synchro, and it worked! I’ll be coming back to it soon, now that I’ve broken through the barrier of intolerance of first impressions.
Same way it happened today with going back to Enslaved’s second latest release, Utgard. I remember a month or so ago listening to their latest Heimdal album while reading lyrics and I found it uninspiring somehow… the lyrics at that time seemed unfocused. I clearly wasn’t ready yet. That time will come. This morning I listened to Utgard and after listening to music alone first time, I’ve put it on again and read lyrics while listening, and it all came to reason and spirit, and what a beautiful connection it has created… If I wasn’t tied tight into the Norse spirituality, I’d probably be still lost. Anyway, so far I mostly appreciate the bond of music and lyrics. Maybe some time soon, the appreciation of music alone will come to me as well.
I keep trying not to judge, as energy enters my sphere, be it the small balls of light, the moderate strikes of wind, and the grand agents of sonic sense, even if sense appears absent some time. Then as Utgard’s own lyrics say, “time is cosmic vanity” and no linear path of reality exists. Everything is relative, and everything may have more meaning and quality than one, as each person has more of a story than we care to know of. As long as I remember that, I’ll be ok.
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Trezvennost II 
