Sometimes
music reminds of movies in bits and pieces—on more than one occasion I have
remarked that a band can sound like “a John Hughes movie”. But every once in a while, with ambient
bands like Stenorette, you can listen to their music and hear the soundtrack to
a single movie.
It’s
really an amazing feeling, to sense that this cassette could be the soundtrack
to a singular film, yet it is highly unlikely that the band themselves sat down
and recorded this as such. Just because
it triggers these thoughts in my mind, doesn’t mean that these musicians were
trying to sync the music up to a particular movie, Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of
the Moon style.
This
cassette sounds like it is a space transmission. There is buzzing and static, but all I can
think about is someone being stranded in space, or perhaps, but whatever is
happening, it is in space. There is no
oxygen, only guitar notes. The distress
call is out, the numbers have counted and now the lasers are firing.
Is this
a cry for help?
Are
they asking to come home?
Regardless,
I can hear one single movie coming out through all of this and I’d love to try
and see how the two sync up, but I won’t because I don’t want to ruin the
illusion I may have presented for myself here.
Sometimes our manifestations and mysteries are greater than what is
finite and I think that this cassette is a true testament to that as any.
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