Seas | An Epic in Music | Bhaskar Chandavarkar Part – II
For Catharsis
In my introductory post on Music of the Seas, I said “the album moves towards the shore rather than deep sea.” I stress this again. The album is not about different elemental music of Sea (sounds produced by water in the sea). Rather, it explorers the music of the life around the sea, music of the life that is centering on sea. It’s an Epic in music representing a mixture of feelings and a state of being for everyone.
For a fisherman, Sea is both the celebration and the funeral, with so many mysterious feelings in between. Today, I’d like to write on two tracks: Fisherman’s Dawn and Against the Tide.
Dawn for a fisherman is full of hope, desire, and questions of the day ahead. It poses struggle. Track Fisherman’s Dawn is such a mixture of feelings: hope, desire, longing and questions. And these feelings are so universal that it is truly Everyone’ dawn. Listening to this track, I often had cathartic release at times of heavy burden. At normal times, it is still a nice composition to listen to.
More Cathartic in nature is Against the Tide. With its death-toll like bell sound that begins the track, the hard distantly-striking drum beats disturb all sedimented sorrows in heart. The silence between those heart-disturbing beats is very meaningful and adds tragic beauty to the track.
There are times when we control, suppress our cries. And for many this suppression is too long, too much that it settles in the heart, blocking the natural flow of tears. If such is the case with anyone, listening to these tracks can help. They really dig out so much from the heart. You will feel relaxed and light.
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