Anko

There are two ways to fall in love: slowly, gradually, step by step, or all at once.

Well that’s what happened to me about a year ago, when I went to Helsinki for a Muse concert. I knew that Mew would be an opening act, but I didn’t know anything about them and had never heard their music. So I wasn’t really interested. Untill I heard the first sound…

First sounds caught me prisoner. A combination of inconsistent rhythm, eclectic tunes and smooth flowing voice led me into confusion. And then I looked at the screen at the edge of the stage and saw the eyes of a man with a microphone – I’ve never seen such eyes! And it was not even about the color, but about the expression. I remember thinking then that this person has a whole strange world inside, where there’s a forest and dense fog in the fields, and jack-o’-lanterns, and friendly monsters… which was confirmed later.

With each next song I fell more and more in love with this  music, so with the last chords of “Louis Louisa”, I realized that I had just found my new favorite band.

No, they have not replaced anyone on my list of favorites. They took their own niche that no one could take, but them. Their music sneaks in such remote corners of my soul, which other music fails to reach. “Apocalypso” brings me to a screeching halt, it hurts me, because I am fully convinced that it is a suicide song. “Cartoons and Macrome Wounds” calms me down. “Making Friends” makes me smile and squint from the sun even on a cloudy day. And this last New Year’s eve I spent in Norway, alone, sitting on a hill, looking over the city of Bergen and listening to “Snowflake”. And “Comforting Sounds”… it’s a masterpiece, they deserve Grammy or whatever is the most prestigious music award for this song!

They are musicians of the highest level, amazingly talented people, not only in music, and that’s awesome and beautiful!

I was ill, it was a phycosomatic disease. I still am, but I’m on my way to recovery, and I hope that one day I’ll de okay. And I’m really glad and grateful, that this music helped me to get through some really tough time.

Well, that’s pretty much it, I guess… that simple and trivially.