Music has a transportative ability. I can ascribe exact memories to songs by the michrophones, Joni Mitchell, built to spill, Dungen, Harry Nilsson, and so many others, and it’s a form of recall that I can actually trust.
I can listen to music and instantly be anywhere that song is trying to take me. Music activates a certain mental freedom in a way that nothing else can, and that’s empowering. You can call it escapism if you like, but I see it as connecting to a deeper human feeling that founf in the day-to-day world.
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