
Wendy Eisenberg – Lasik
Most people just want fortune, their peers’ adoration and a nice, warm bed to crash into. This is not just the truth for most average Joes. This is true for artists as well. In fact, often times, the artists are willing to distort their personality much more than anyone else in order to achieve acceptance from their peers. Usually, they start out by guessing what it is that they should look like and what it is that they ought to look toward.
This is all fine and good. Who are we to play around with people’s happiness? The trouble is that when everyone has the exact same objectives, they tend to create the exact same strategies. This, in turn, leads to seeing the world in strictly one type of way. The artists who have been able to drastically alter their perception of the world have tended to do the best work.
Wendy Eisenberg’s “Lasik” sounds just like the topic that it describes. This is music meant to feel like going around through a maze, not knowing for certain if an exit exists. And, most interestingly, the tone is one of acceptance. This, too, is a reality. Eisenberg’s medical condition, partly described in the song, was, without a doubt, a terrible thing for anybody to have to deal with. But it also forced the songwriter to approximate what the world was from shards of information. The way the artist came to a conclusion and what that is makes “Lasik” a fascinating listen.
Upupayāma – Moon Needs The Owl Pt. 1
It’s easy to laugh at people who change their religion, who often change their customs, or who opt to move to faraway lands and live a life similar to that of the natives. But how many of you were born in just the right place, got just the right education, and were introduced to spiritual concepts that you felt a kinship with throughout your life?
The majority of people, if they are seekers of truth, must go out and find the things that move them. It’s a long road for all of them, no doubt. But the occasional rewards are fantastic. While regular folks often complain about their lives being the same, the seekers’ senses are always challenged. They are stimulated by new experiences. And they are the perfect subjects to receive new truths, as this is what they’ve been preparing themselves to do.
Upupayāma’s “Moon Needs The Owl Pt. 1” treats Oriental inspiration with the same kind of giddy energy that The Beatles might’ve received it in 1968. It’s a whole new world of sound, color, and philosophies that have opened up for this Italian composer. When one finds a truth shaped just like the hole in their life, it’s wisest to jump in with both feet. “Moon Needs The Owl Pt. 1” proves that Upupayāma has done just that and that Oriental art, remade in the West, still has the potential to be fascinating.