The Golden Morning Breaks

This thing that you have, is more than a vehicle from a to b. It's a key, a way of answering the deepest questions we have about ourselves, and humanity. This thing is not a way to become successful, although that may come, but it is a way for you to come up with your own answers, formulate your own philosophies. It's your life, this gift. It's a gift to help you look inside yourself.

Strike it.

It's a bell, and with each resounding phase of your life, that gift, your everlasting companion, will echo and vibrate your bones. Speaking back to you, having conversations with you and yourself, in the way that only you ever could. That dialogue of God and strawberry waterfalls. And the mild river that lies under those waterfalls. Where the essence of you swirls and mixes with the sunned water. Where the ideas you formulate are untouchable, and the truth is safe.

My son you are a giant. And only I could say it to you. You are wonderful beyond words, kindest soul and sweetest intentions. That mess over there will understand in time, but you, you cannot stop. You must not stop. If you knew that this were your destiny you wouldn't stop. If you knew where it would lead you, you'd never stop. You'd dive deeper into it, explore it like the love of your life, wanting to know everything, tickling just for the reaction, and being serious just for the interaction. You can't stop this.

It's what makes you you.

I wrote that on the beach today, listening to a few songs from this wonderful album, inspired from the things the sound gave me. 'The Golden Morning Breaks' is a collection of moody instrumental pieces, various organic instruments, strings, woodwinds, even the sound of wind itself layer over each other creating a subtle orchestra of childhood memory fuzz. Adulthood reflection. The pieces, and they are pieces, all hypnotise. It is the first time I have heard a whole album of music that sounds so undeniably beautiful and yet at the same time, so undeniably urgent... so pressing. It has importance in its soul, it will take you away from where you are, even if the overall mood is undeniably gentle, it's deceptively strong. It's a companion. Hear it with that in mind. I could write for days, but I won't. I loved it.

Y.Misdaq aka Yoshi, 28 Aug 2005