Greg Loftus – I Don’t Want to Die in San Antone
It’s not just the people who earned so much from the record sales that they could afford to buy mansions and install gold-plated swimming pools in them, who were saved by making music, or any other art for that matter. It likely did more for the ones who were truly lost at sea, who had no business plan in mind for their art, and who daily felt that they were sinking down like stones.
Many, if not most, people feel as if life is passing them by. They feel that, perhaps, at the start, there was a mission that they needed to fulfil, but that right now, even making sense of what that might’ve been is too difficult. Those who feel a strong connection to art and desire to be artists themselves get the best and the worst of it. They know where they might be going but know that they’ll never be fully satisfied unless they go.
Greg Loftus’ “I Don’t Want to Die in San Antone” is a country-rock number about the despair of realizing that you might just lose your potential. However, with Loftus’ knack for classic songwriting and singing voice, there’s little chance that this will happen unless he makes one mistake – to give up. “I Don’t Want to Die in San Antone” served as a warning for its author, and, just maybe, it can be the same for you.
ASCOLT DERY – METAPHORE
Musicians are allowed to play make-believe. It is one of the reasons why people become musicians. It allows you to get in front of people, play your songs, dress in weird outfits and pretend as if you come from lands far away.
And it’s not just the people on stage who need this. It’s the audience as well. Everyone gets bored of the place where they live or where they were born. Everyone stops having the same attraction toward their own culture, and everyone needs some exotic elements.
That’s why it’s pointless to accuse pop stars of stealing from other cultures. This is exactly what they’re supposed to do. Bob Dylan sang as if he was an old prospector working in a mine. The Police imagined themselves as a Kingstown power trio. And did you know that the guys who did “Sunshine Reggae” were from Germany?
ASCOLT DERY are from ever-sunny, friendly, and dance-loving Brazil. But their music is from North America. “METAPHORE” is a poetic folk-country song. The tune prioritises subtlety and storytelling above all other things. It’s not designed to make you dance but to help you relax into a meditative state. And while it may be just one tune that we’re talking about, it is still proof that the world that the world of music, unlike the one drawn down on maps, has no boundaries.
