"As a performer, I try to find that balance between losing myself in the music and being completely self-aware. It’s during these moments where I can experience a deeper quality of sound." - Jon Porras
“We do not want to please, we want to question the Knife.” – Olof Dreijer, in the manuscript for the group’s latest album, Shaking The Habitual. From the heavy-handed manuscript and bio written to accompany their first album...
"Women's imaginary is inexhaustible, like music, painting, writing: their stream of phantasms is incredible." (sic) -- Hélène Cixous
John Coltrane once said: “My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It...
"Tapping back into symbolic power and the mystical meaning of these things is, I think, a really important practice... on a personal level, it's just looking at the inner meaning of things more." -- Taraka Larson
I just found this post on the Pattern People blog, about a book entitled The Writing Of Stones. The images are striking, true, but it’s more than just a book about nature. I love how blogger Lauren Demith Chung wove in literary quotes from the...
"A lot of my songwriting comes from a desire to open myself up to nature and the universe, experiences with love, my subconscious, childhood memories, imagination and various cocktails of each." -- Christopher Lynch
The Turin Horse isn't an interpretation of Nietzsche so much as a meditation on those impositions against which Nietzsche railed--order, morality, indoctrination, humanity removed from its animality.