Green Gardens – Ghost of a Tree
People start cults and rock bands for very similar reasons. Sure, the story of one of these has a much higher likelihood of ending with police investigating the scene of a mass self-sacrifice. But, hey, it’s not always easy to deal with abundantly loyal followers.
Imagine the control you have over people when they are hypnotised by your speech, song or poem. Green Gardens work heavily on the mesmeric potential of their work for the darkly trippy indie sound found on the single “Ghost of a Tree.”
I suppose all of us nurture some kind of fantasy that our memories can be sold off for gold. Lots of us would like to imagine a world where our therapy sessions get recorded, sent to the newspapers, and end up becoming the water-cooler topic for a few weeks.
Yes, the music of Green Gardens is well-designed, tightly controlled indie-rock that should get its spot on radio playlists without much trouble. But “Ghost of a Tree” is spoken in tongues. The lyrics do sound like a hypnotism session centred around the topic of childhood. There’s a weight the singer has to bear while going through this. But, without a doubt, the vocalist also has the ability to charm listeners with these visions of the past.
MKSTN – Omni Eyes
There aren’t many notes with which musicians can work. Certainly not in Western music. Just 12. But even if you’d like to rely on the microtones of, for example, Indian music, there would only be 22 shrutis (microtones). Arabic music has a couple more. Turkish music has 53 microtones. And there are some Asian schools of music with an even looser system. But those aren’t a lot of notes.
But what about intention? We have not yet run out of notes. It’s not a universe we’ve conquered yet by placing our flag on every single stone. We know that we never will!
Despite the mathematical limitations of the systems that explain it, music is endless. That’s one of the main reasons that we return to it for relief and guidance all of the time.
MKSTN’S hear, see, and touch a million possibilities on the dreamy, retro-tech inspired “Omni Eyes.” And with the world giving us so much, or at least affording us the chance to dream about so many things, MKSTN’s music is here to convince us to relax, dream away, and think of all the great things that could be. It’s a never-ending sound with which MKSTN is working, giant constellations of sound.
