It was really hard to choose something fitting to sound right next to "On The Nature Of Daylight". It took several days of trial and error and finally I chose this song.
I like how Arcade Fire used to sound like a simple band of kids just toying with their instruments and recording it on their parents' house. There was a sense of playfulness even in their most serious songs, like this one.
It's amazing how music can portray grief in so many different ways, just like it can be processed in infinitely different ways by each person.
Music is such a beautiful companion and catalyst for growth and change, it's just an expression of our greatest selves, an expression of the collective heart and its connection to the more blissful realms.
This song about grief, a lifelong grief, can probably relate to so many other hearts. I know I have felt identified several times, when I've witnessed other people's losses and when I remember that there's a lot of grief in my own family and in my ancestral lineages.
Death is one of the biggest influences in our lives, it touches everything and changes everything, and it's meant to be that way. Death is such an important part of human experience and something that defines us. Life is always more valuable because of it, every gift we receive everyday can be more greatly appreciated because of death, because every breath and heartbeat is literally a gift, incredibly valuable, and finite.
So it's important to remember how death defines us, but more importantly, how this borrowed time, this life, does.
And all the better when we have the company of beautiful music.
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About the Curator - Henry Gonzalez
Musician from Colombia, constantly inspired and moved by music and trying to express it in the best way posible, trying to find common souls who get as transformed by music and sound as he does.
Music can be a spiritual experience, you just have to find the right one.