Super Eagles - "Love's A Real Thing"
The Ontology
Love is a real thing. Expressible by
The Aesthetic
Actual psych shipped overseas, melted and sweated into something new. An organ played by a child; a guitar played by a skilled, overenthusiastic child, who, like the baby he is, insists on bending every note he plays. A skittering guitar solo in eight bars. Raw-throated Hendrix vocals. The force and manic energy of the American classic rock for which the Super Eagles' love is real. Doubt me?
The Epistemology
"Hold me tenderly and you will see/I'll prove it to you, my loving is sweet."
The Teleology
For us: to which to dance, love, and make merry. [Buy]
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Matt Baldwin - "She Was a Girl, She Was in Love"
An open-tuned acoustic guitar and an aching melody, accompanied by the smallest intakes and slightest outputs of a guitarist's breath. Little is as lovely as listening to the breathing of a musician in song. A player's breath, breathed to an internal rhythm, can be a clue about the creativity of an artist - their own perception of rhythm and time, even pitch and space, embodied more profoundly than in any intentional music. [From American Primitive Guitar, available only on emusic]
Posted by Jordan at February 20, 2007 12:33 PMDo I every enjoy the Matt Baldwin tune, I agree completely with the breathing adding to the tune. It's neat to hear the effort / concentration come across from the artist in the form of breathing. It helps paint a visual of what he would look like, what facial expressions he would be making while playing the tune.
Posted by Dustin at February 20, 2007 3:22 PM"A player's breath, breathed to an internal rhythm, can be a clue about the creativity of an artist - their own perception of rhythm and time, even pitch and space, embodied more profoundly than in any intentional music."
Yup. (c.f. Heidegger)
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