if you know me well, then you probably know that I have a damn wide collection of music, which varies greatly from dua lipa to praying to god.
as many people compliment me for my music taste, that's because it takes exclusivity that they have me sending songs for them, really.
if I'm sharing music with you, that means you are so damn special and I like you for being yourself. here, have a piece of my soul, an okta of my sunset sky.
joji.
if I can be reproduced and written as a history book, then this is probably one of the oldest chapters (when I'm really me, cause anything before that was pure bullshit)
joji was the one who taught me to listen to music not solely for its melody or because it's catchy, but for its meaning.
I remember times when I feel so desparate in life, work, study and love that I submerge myself in the bath. shafts of gentle light enters the window, I wonder if I was feeling light cause my soul is leaving my body, or was it archimedes' principle whatever.
joji is probably the first and hopefully the last celebrity crush I will ever have.
about a year ago, I and a friend of mine, who is usually much less close to me, talked about some nonsensical things, basically parallel universes while everyone around thought of us as idiots.
we don't mind, we call that daydreaming.
there're people who passes through your life only once, carving their quality into your heart, manipulate it into beautiful structures that your clumsy hand can't ever mold into. there're also people who you don't talk to so often, not that you guys don't meet in real life, but it's becasue there is no thing in particular to talk about. however, once it comes to point of view in life, love, and anything, really.
I call them soulmates, and I don't ever dare to small talk to them. I'd rather have a less frequent contact to them, but deep in meaning, rather than something shallow that people normally say.
and there are people who are soulmates but you can talk about whatever whenever, without waiting for an event like assignments or classwork to discuss. I'm so lucky to have found mine early in life, at this time and age.
she's the second kind of people I mentioned above. and one of the things she left for me was her great taste of music, particularly joji.
I don't like joji for being joji, I liked him for being filthy frank, papafranku and joji, watching him grow and emerge drastically from one field to another, which has left me with pure pride, as one of his fan.
sufjan stevens.
I'd mentioned him quite a lot of time now, but he remains my favorite for his illumination in my life, specifically his songwriting style and his fine album carrie and lowell.
I got to know him thanks to the youtube autoplay system, since I, as many people fell in love with mystery of love, official sountrack for call me by your name.
sufjan stevens lived his childhood with shattered memories, in which he blended nicely with the holy bible's highlights and details from greek mythology. strands of sadness, dignity and illumination, holy spirits got woven together in the crafting of the veil that covers his soul. I can't name anything more beautiful and meaningful, this is the kind of music that send me to a temporary clinical death when I was sleeping.
ghosts of the songs went as they came, vividly, fleetingly, without you hearing, but felt, deep inside your mind and soul.
yeah clive koch, I no longer search for existential exit, I learn to enjoy it now.
I thank sufjan and holy spirits for guiding my ways through hard times, and I'm deeply grateful for that.
yann tiersen.
if you know the guy with his marble machine whose video has up to 100 million views, then you probably don't know that he was inspired by yann tiersen, a french artist that compose the song for ameile and won an cesar award for it.
yann tiersen's music is mainly demonstrated on the piano (as far as I know)
I honestly didn't care much about him except for "comptine d'un autre été", it's until today that I unveiled the beauty of his full album, on pretty much everything.
thanks to some comments of the songs, I get to know that the spot where he recorded was the Tempelhof airport in Berlin, which is now an abandoned airpot, open for visits.
"I want less and less control with music. just playing music without any idea of composition or writing" - yann tiersen
bonus.
here is a pic from ameile that I thought was nice to have.
9/4/2021.
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