I got the idea for this from a Moleskine music notebook that I got from my girlfriend, but I'm kind of getting ahead of myself here aren't I ? My idea is to go through my life in chronological order looking at The music that I've listened no matter how painful It may seem sometimes.The first entry will be quite brief, but I believe that I will gain momentum through the years and I will have more and more to say about the music that has affected me through the ages.
Yours truly at a young age.
So to start this off. From my earliest days, when I don't think I could actually even distinguish music from any other noise I'll start from the album that is the first one that I've heard connected to myself and which I have ret-conned to be significant to myself and I guess it is. Apparently when I was a baby I quite often went to sleep to the sweet sounds of Santana's Abraxas, in retrospect I think it may have been the wind chimes, although the whole album is so incredibly smooth that you might think it's gone through a blender.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the cover.
Now to explain how this came to be I should probably tell you a little about my parents so here we go. My dad was a little bit of a hippie back in the day and he was heavily into Zappa, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and a lot of prog-rock of the time. Later on he got into blues and even some country and these days I have to say that his tastes are pretty eclectic. My mother wasn't that much of a hippie and didn't really like Zappa that much either, but she does say that these days whenever she hears Zappa it gives her a sort cozy homey feeling because she's listened to so much ow it. To the best of my knowledge the only record she owned back in the olden days was a Cat Stevens best of album which could have been a worse pick in all honesty. These days she seems to listen to whatever is playing on the radio, or whatever my dad chooses to subject her to.
Anyway so my musical journey starts with Santana, a long haired hippie with incredible rhythm sections , which is a bit ironic considering that I don't seem to have rhythm in a single bone in my body . I'm not sure if the music itself has affected me that much, but the knowledge of having been soothed by something like this as a baby has definitely formed a bond between me and Santana's music. I'm sort of curious about whether I actually slept through the whole album or if they only played the first side of the record because side 2 rocks a bit harder than the first one. There is something comforting about the whole idea and I can't go without thinking about it whenever I hear Santana.
I'm now relistening the album after a long while as I'm writing this and I have to say that I'm sort of rediscovering it here. Abraxas has incredible energy and positivity about it and the energy seems channeled in just the right balance to soothe the soul, but then brings out the wild rhythms that just start to move your feet as if by magic. And I guess it sort of is...
This first entry is, as I said earlier a bit thin, but I think I have more to say about music that comes later and I'm sure there will be much more in-depth posts later on. I'd love to hear if anyone else has similar stories or any opinions you might have so if anyone actually reads this little mess Comment away !
