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Ecstatic music.

Nobody's girl

12:56 / 26.02.04

Sometimes I feel like music can communicate the ecstatic experience much better than any other art form, what's your most favourite ecstatic piece of music?

For me, the last few months I've been in love with a Vaughan Williams piece "The Lark Ascending". I had the luck to catch a performance of it on the Proms. It sounds like it should be the soundtrack to a death scene of a film, it speaks of joy and peace to me. Best listened to with lazy evening sunbeams lighting up dust motes and cigarette smoke.

No star here laces

23:51 / 29.02.04

I'm replying to this cos you are named after one of my favourite fictional characters...

Ecstatic music? I dunno, closest I can get is Sizzla "Just one of those days" but I'm not quite sure I know what you mean...

AnaMorph0s|s

11:48 / 02.03.04

The last track on The Icarus Line's "Mono", a song called SMPC, it isn't exactly static, but the feedback used in the end, dragged back and forth, creates some sort of static tension. I love that song. Puts your brain on hold for a few minutes, creating space for you to really absorb shit going on around you like expressions, instead of just physical reactions (if that made any sense to you). Reccomended on bus travels in cities at night.

Nobody's girl

15:13 / 02.03.04

The late night bus is always a good place for absorbing music. That and train journeys.

AnaMorph0s|s

10:15 / 03.03.04

Damn, I read wrong, I thought you wrote "static". Ah well. Cosmonaut by At The Drive-In is THE most ecstatic song, their whole album "Relationship of Command" is pretty ecstatic actually, check it out.

Nobody's girl

13:36 / 03.03.04

Heh. I rather liked that Icarus Line song though, thanks.

Seth

15:50 / 03.03.04

Ecstatic usual refers to the specific altered states attained in magico-religious ceremonies, sometimes through the use of music. Whereas this thread could just as easily be titled, "Music I rilly rilly like!" The former could be an interesting topic for discussion (it has been on this forum in the past, at least). The latter is every thread on the forum.

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