There is strangeness in beauty, and vice versa. Somewhere between crowd-pleasing popularity and breaking the rules outright, there's a place where we take chances on an open mind or two, and encourage the evolvement. It's a very safe place... just a little more interesting. When you've had your fill of the comfortingly familiar, by all means, feel free to take a detour into other possibilities. Don't be afraid - it's only music. All track production and performance by Solo unless otherwise noted.
Music is the best way to decorate thoughts, and can explain them more clearly and powerfully than attempting verbal explanation. Overall, it makes reality much more satisfying.
Yes, most of my dreams have musical accompaniment. That's where many ideas come from.
I'd get out of its way so it could keep changing without my help (interference). I wish more people would do that.
Uranus The Magician, by Gustav Holst
Mike Keneally is so brilliant it's almost hard to take at first. I think he's the one I would single out who keeps me from missing Frank Zappa. Other than him, Ozric Tentacles seem to be my preferred dinner music. I find myself listening to Gong a lot when I'm working out at the gym. Also quite fond of Claypool/Lennon Delirium... wish they'd record more.
Imagining music of the future, or from other worlds — things that haven't been tried yet.
Deprogram.
I feel relieved that I don't have to dance.
I try to avoid seeing others' reality as much as possible. Many of the musicians I know live a very finite and restricted reality, and it is not of interest to me. How we maintain our reality is our own business.
It's kinda cute. I really appreciate the emphasis on community interaction, which was how Soundcloud started out before they got all industry co-opted.
I'm a musician with a day job that has nothing to do with music.... so I'm frustrated with time constraints and narrow-minded listeners.
I don't support "scenes". I support adventurous, original thinkers who refuse to be tethered to styles, scenes, and nostalgic sentiment. I show up at their performances, buy their recordings, and tell lots of other people about them whether they care or not.
If a person wants to be really popular, they need to pander to the mediocre preferences of the majority. The majority of listeners don't seem to have very high standards; they care more about the performer's personality than what they have to offer creatively. So the most assuring qualities are: Youth, attractiveness, a well-crafted voice, fashionable outfits, corporate ambition, irresistible charm, and competent backup players if they themselves aren't instrumental virtuosos. Obviously I'm the wrong person to ask about this, because I'm not willing to do what it takes to be significantly popular. Caring what a lot of people like is not what drives me as an artist.
Dogma Probe. Freshly Wrapped Candies. Elisabeth Waldo. Koenji Hyakkei. The United States Of America (yes, that was a band). Screaming Gypsy Bandits. SchizoBrainiac. 180Gs.