Country Music and Faith System

My faith system is taking a major leap, trying to understand the hardest thing of all. To start thinking that, whatever you're taught from the book of believers is a mere cloud that hides the infinite truth! I cannot either put my journey to the new wave in words, for that, I would impure it in the process. 

Meanwhile I'm also spending a lot of sleepless nights trying to hear quality music, a break from the routine sound or progression, I chose good old country music. I know I grew hearing them from my grand dad's gramophone. I cannot exactly get those 30s and 40s country music, what i ended up getting is the sub-genres called out-law country and blue-grass country. Definitely I want to stay away from John Denver's folk-country sound, as his mastery on lyrics, just hides away all the instrumentation. So I finally chose my favorite Alan Jackson, and started hearing his 90s albums, 'A Lot About Living', 'Who I am' and 'Dont Rock the Jukebox'. really a lot relaxing than a modern day sounds, having too many instruments, and making them all sound-out. Alan's sound is so unique that it allows you to pick the instrument you want to listen to, and there you are, hand in hand with the song. And as a contrapuntal, I also tried Andrea Bocelli's mind soothing Italian tenor on 'Incanto'. As on Ramzan, 20th August, I'm inspired to render Rumi's lines: You wander from room to room; Hunting for the diamond necklace; That is already around your neck!

Life Offline...

I was a little curious to find how it tastes to live a life totally offline for 20 days. Without hiting that F button on the favorites (i meant Facebook), knowing nothing about who went where, pet pictures, missing some good friend's birthday notices, Want to try this life, thats how life was, 20 years back. And its more than fun to forget things that the modern soceity framed as fun. I dint check emails too, I dont get music requests on emails anymore.

Interestingly when Im back, all I could notice, How petty the world's looking, racing for likes, counter-commenting, getting sentimental, getting offended over a picture, playing safe. Most of my musician-friends, had so many expired concert/extended play notices. Im still thinking, is it worthwhile to have a Music page on net to showcase my works. It doesnt make sense to me. As long as I can make one person happy with my music, I dont need a webpage. Life's so beautiful outside the window. You gotta surely give a try on going off the grid. Its a lot fun living life the way it is. Life Offline.

Holly Valance or Delta Goodrem would think their Christmases had come at once if they sold five or six million copies of their albums worldwide. Michael Jackson did something similar in the past two years with his seventh solo album,Invincible, and he's been branded a failure in the industry and the media. Unfair? Yes, of course, because his Invincible figures are better than those for 95 per cent of the thousands of artists released each year and would provide a healthy retirement fund for anyone. What's more, that failure tag is consistently applied by comparisons with his 1982 album,Thriller, which has sold about 100 million copies and its follow-ups, Bad, that sold about 30 million copies. However, selling 10 million copies is still phenomenal compared to the album sales of most artists.

Quoted from SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, on media quaking that Michael Jackson's last album INVINCIBLE is a flop. Long Live MJ.