'Holding On', most importantly, talks about a sequence of events wherein the enigma of the chronology of the events taking place are not necessarily...sequential. There is a very thin, almost translucent embodiment where the opening doors, photograph negatives, cars going forward and moving backwards in time, boulevards melting down and separating from what they really are. We are talking about a panoramic perception of time, one where the chronology falls back either in spirals or in trails of concentric circles. Thereby, we have nowhere to begin and finishing points do not remain a concern anymore.
Personally, I have always been intrigued by music that evokes, ensembles a sense of rift, and a sense of lapse of time; that of time passing, that of time engulfing one's body, that of time drifting and time being sucked inside a hole. Of course, we all seem to be thinking about 'The Dark Side of the Moon', folk-pop and some electronica and Floyd whenever "time" and "infinite" and "music" are put together in a single sentence. Although there is a pungent effervescence of the electronic ensemble that blends within the psychedelic components and sometimes is somewhat more overbearing than the former, the piece reminds me of 'Cirrus Minor' from the 1969 album, 'Relics'. 'Cirrus Minor' has a hallucinogenic quality to it, which perhaps is mostly the result of the composition being based on a lament bass, which is built from descending perfect fourth from tonic to dominant, harmonising each step in the process.
It is impressive how the musical composition, once combined with the visual interpretation of time makes you see things in slower motion, often revisiting the initiation point from where they began. It is rare to find electronica and/or hip hop compositions that are almost intuitively psychedelic. The recurrence of a certain kind of obstruction in motion makes you pay attention to detail. The videography has a role to play, of course, but in a way that is not deterministic at all. The visuals here are an additive, the main course remains the musical piece, which is as fluid when coupled with cognitive visualisation as it is without.
'Holding Up' entails a dreamy, cosmic feeling that is re-evoked when and there is a change in the motion of how the track is driven from rhythm to an absence of it and sent back to rhythm again. I would have a hard time thinking of a hip-hop composition that is so strangely psychedelic. The constituents are not unheard of, or something that is absolutely alien, but the recurrence, the patterns and the modules are in fact something to look out for. Recommended to all Pink Floyd fans out there!
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thank you for your thoughtful review titas. all the best to you and yours. waxfeet.
ReplyDeleteThis evokes in me the memory of a time where I had to get out of time. A lifetime of pain started to haunt me unbearably and I had to ask is time real, or at least what is the nature of time. After some physical and mental readjustment, I have started to see time, or rather the past, as something that exists now. In that way it's more bearable. And actually easy to change. You change the past by what you do now. From international relations to our personal relations we find it hard to forgive someone who hurt us, to let go of our expectations, to forgive ourselves. We hear so often 'we will never forget.' Probably this is partly due to the patriarchal education system, which from the beginning teaches every child who is the enemy. "Look what your forefathers have done for you, you ought to be grateful, you ought to carry on their fight." Also there's lot of propaganda like "a good time is coming". A promise of "heaven". Also people scare you with time, they sell insurances. Also people just like plants and animals have different maturation speed. But the education system forces everyone to go in the same pace. "Time must have a stop." I must stop.��
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