Whenever
you read about how music is ambient, you might not truly understand what that
means until you hear something like Vagon Brei’s “Cosmic Luv Voyage”. Within these songs you will find beats,
yes, and you will find synth almost to the point where it sounds like it is
chirping but there is something more. I
have compared music of this nature to Beverly Hills Cop, so that is not new and
I can even hear the Eurhythmics coming out but that’s just another band
comparison.
What
this music does on this tape is tells a story.
It tells the story of a young girl in China who has fallen on troubled
times. Perhaps she is having family
problems or social problems: anything from her parents being killed to her best
friend simply not speaking to her. When
you’re a little girl in China, everything is a big deal.
Without
knowing a lot about the Chinese culture, I can just imagine that they have some
sort of ceremony, a rite of passage on some level, for children as they come of
age. I imagine, as this story unfolds in my mind,
that this event is about to happen and as we reach the second song on the
second side (or the last song—that would’ve been less to type) we seem to reach
that occurrence.
Again,
I can’t tell you what this coming of age life event is, but if the Chinese don’t
have a special sort of holiday put aside for it then they at least do in this
fairytale. And what happens is, this
young girl forgets all of her troubles, all her problems go away for that one
day, that one singular moment in time.
And she wants to live in that moment forever.
Aside
from merely being proven that music can be more than just one dimensional (it
can be seen as well as heard), I have created this rough sketch while listening
to this cassette to prove just how moving and beautiful a piece this is.
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