The Search for the Sound

I've been on a hunt for a little less than a year.

This is a hunt I think I will ever finish. I am looking for the most organic sound. I don't mean like a sound that a dog would make. I mean like in music. I love the heavy and the distorted, the electric, the completely crazy and complex, but I want more. I want to know that there is a soul there. I want to hear the emotion in someone's voice, hear the most organic sound.

I have discovered more recently things in my collection again, Dylan, U2, Hank Williams Jr, David Allen Coe, but the hunt goes on. Mumford & Sons has been one that really peaked lately with me as well as She and Him. All these have the elements of the organic sound I am looking for, some with more additions and distortions then some would say qualify as organic, but I can see the soul in them.

The Limousines pointed out in one of the tracks of their debut album, "The kids are disco dancing, dont tell them the drum machine aint got no soul" This could be taken a few ways, the drum machine literally has no soul, and thus not in my hunt for the organic sound, or the kids don't care because it suits there needs, it doesn't matter it doesn't have a soul.

This goes to my point of a band that is very much in my hunt for the organic sound, the Kills.

One dude, a girl and a drum machine. The band has more soul and more energy then I want to admit, I absolutely love them. They play with the sound, they play with the audience and their music resonates. The pure and simple tracks really drive a part of me and I really love the music that they create.

I think the deeper reason behind my search for the organic sound, is my soul needs rest. I need to have something pure and undeniable. I love the complex, but it has come to a point I need to have rest, I need to feel something real. In my "younger" days, I need the release, today I need the rest. I remember a few years back seeing Rise Against, that show was the biggest energy release of any show I have ever been to, today I'm search for the show that makes me feel the most at peace. I think another bridge school with Nora Jones might be needed, as I have had 2 year break from the series. I think as I get to know myself better I need to know what drives and pushes me. I think my hunt for the new sound will be it. Not ignoring my passions but hunting for the parts of life I can hold on to and feel. The hunt for the organic sound continues.......