The Heaviest Sound of Evil

I am in full swing mood in this moment to brag about an experimental heavy [heaviest] doom metal band named “Sunn 0))),that is specially designed for mortals who have an abyss in their soul. The sound of Sunn 0))) songs, especially a number like ‘Candle goat’, emotes the beastly instincts in you with the help of a couple of heavily distorted guitars. First of all, you need to know the dangerous depths of your mind, if you want to comprehend their songs.

 I, as a matter of fact, was a fan of ‘Burning witch’, the experimental doom metal band that dealt with the concepts of doom and hell in Christianity in their lyrics. I personally prefer that kind of sound in metal- Slow, Heaviest and total horror. “Burning Witch” was dismantled soon after it is formed and members of it gave cranks to another bands. One of them were ‘Goat snake’ in which Greg Anderson was the lead guitarist. Stephen O’malley of “Burning Witch’ went on to find this special band ‘Sunn 0)))’ that is heavier and slower in tempo than “BW’. Greg Anderson has also joined that band later and I believe that’s enough for a preface.

I wish to write about my perception of their song ‘Candle Goat’. It is a shock to me that the music of ‘the song accurately harmonized with its lyrics. I would like to share those lyrics with you –

“Alone, unalive, forgotten and abandoned where only the discarded dwell,

the scurrying of footstpes so large planets fall into the great pit,

entire civilizations consumed in the slow frenzy of despair,

an unholiness that judges without reason, digested by something so hungry,

so insatiable, a gleeful darkness that knows you have arrived,

and has always known, something that should never have been,

something waiting with a patience truly terrifying,

that is everything and nothing,

a darkness that binds all together in fear and eternity. Await.”

My Interpretation Of This Scream

‘Alone, unalive, forgotten, and abandoned where only the discarded dwell’

What could be the most exciting, horrifying and adventurous place to be – I would say, without any doubt, it is a lone, wide space where dead humans are buried. You can call it a ‘cemetery’, for the facilitation of comprehension. However, Can you imagine a world- yes I mean the fucking modern world, where we wage the corporate wars- itself become a cemetery and everyone of it is dead except one destined god damned child and that’s –“You”.

In such a state of affairs, you feel dead even though you are able to breathe. There you sit near the future tombstone of yours –‘”unalive and forgotten, abandoned and discarded”. Meditate on these lines, my folk - Aren’t you unalive, forgotten, abandoned, and discarded even when this world runs in its epitomized momentum. Yes, you are dead, in a sense, my friend. These lines reminded me of Nietzsche’s Zarathushtra who just sat there with the first companion he got from the buzzing town, a dead one. It would be terrific if Zarathustra act this part for a music video version [ he he ].

‘the scurrying of footstpes so large planets fall into the great pit’

This could be the end of the world- The distorted guitar buzz goes beyond weirdest horizons- A force that could burn your state of art technological civilization into ashes within a flash. People worship things that are afar their reach and control because there are no other ways to understand and beat them. Human beings will try their best to break things and thus reveal them in their sore nakedness. They worship a power that can’t be broken or revealed because they are, in their core crom, nothing but cowards. So when a power that has footsteps larger than your planets, you start to worship it, out of ‘fear’.

Yes, ‘fear’ is the key foundation of any worship for most people. We fear god more than we fear Satan, right ? That is the sole reason,for us to worship him. Here in the above scene, you don’t know the character and quality of the rising power that can crush your universe. You have no idea whether it is good or evil but I am sure indeed, that you will soon build a structure for worshipping it, you coward monkeys [read ‘human beings].

[Will be continued soon]

Dumping and Numbing of human beings

When I get to see and interact with today’s teenagers in India’s metro cities, I feel like they are the dumbest mortals of this planet. They neither have intense emotional sensitivity nor the patience to learn their surroundings and fellow beings. Media proliferate that kids of our times are so fast. Fastness! What they do mean by fastness- They, in fact, say that these kids are dumb enough to not to focus on anything or learn about anything as they want to get the things which they covet ,as fast as they get a KFC Chicken Zinger Burger.

They can’t spend time, thinking about any subject that affects their surroundings and at the end of the day, them. They just are running behind all the entertainment in the world to cure the thirst of their subconscious. I want to put it in the right words- It is not ‘thirst’ but a ‘maniacal greed’ that is more or less close to insanity. They are completely driven by [manipulated by] their terribly programmed sub conscious mind. They are the just the slaves of their subconscious’s wishes.

What defines their subconscious? Mind is just a social product and of course, your own elements are there in it but it is more or less a programming by others around you and media. In this case, a peculiar bunch of different organizations are creating and operating these teenage minds' new thirst that is never ending. Media, Liquor brands, chain restaurants, other corporate giants are the important and known elements of this weird bunch who utterly operate the subconscious of these poor kids. They can only seize the rich kids to their web easily because those kids can fritter gallons of bucks to cure the thirst of their subconscious, whenever they want because their wallets are obscenely obese.

At the same time, middle class or lower class kids can’t splurge money to join the ‘unreal world’ and its thirst. They may have tasted it a few times for the sake of curiosity and they, for sure, want to go back to that world but their wallets are fragile. Then they will dip themselves into sadness and would think badly about their poor financial condition. But, at that point of time, some of those kids may go deep in their mind and would find out the core reason of the problem. Everybody will eventually find out the truth if they are ready to think deep.

Thinking improves your sensibility and sensitivity to a great extend that you can view the world and its inhabitants with more clarity and an enhanced sensibility.
But wealthy kids have completely lost the intensity of their emotions and they don’t even know about that. They may look at you with burning hatred if you point out this fact to them because they, honestly, figure that you are trying to slander them. They may react by throwing some cuss words in English to you. But they look at your face blankly when you say them that even their cuss words are clichéd and boring. They are just repeating the cuss words the Americans made decades ago.

There is not a slight percentage of creativity in Today’s Indian youth. All these flower children of ours do is that to imitate Western Culture without any sense of clarity.They don’t have even the sensitivity to copy with style. The music they make, the stories they write, the films they make are boring sensible people to death. The interesting thing is this- In all this chaos, they think everything is perfect in the world. They have lost all the connection to the reality as they are living in their ‘inky pongy’ artificial world which is purposefully designed as a ‘un real world for kids’ by media barons and liquor dons.

They ask you “What fuck is the problem in the world,maayn..There are beers,girls,boys,weed,acid and music. The corporate are going to pay me in millions and I am gonna crush all those poor slum dogs and green fucks all over this city to make it a beautiful city like New York …oh,Newyork,Newyork..my god…I am on my…#$~*********!!!” [Unexplainable]

Yes,They often talk obscene language to make them look ‘Cool’.

Why media has to dumb ‘people’? Well, there can’t be an action without a reason or a purpose, as it is the dynamic motion theory of physics.

I have a guess about the malpractice of the media and corporates in this country to make its people dumber. I will detail about it in the next post and I don’t give a damn about what people think of me if they think that I am over reacting. I write stuff that sounds truth ,to me

Diving into blue

He dived into the depths of that native ocean where
He thought, he would get the luminous experience of exaltation,
which he always dreamt of
A buzzing feel of silent and joyous chants of unseen children
In the blue water, where greed never could dive into
‘I love to have a drop of light here’ he thought, as it decorates his region

Come, join me, in this abyss, he call upon to the force
He controlled his breath to be there for more time
Oh,blue, Oxygen bubbles travels to the upper mountains,

The man moved with electric fishes that smiled and swam cool
lighting up the water world,
Now, it is the time to fly back, to the shore
With the bubbles, to the top
To meet the shore, to listen to those country songs
To ponder in the music of those ancient pines

‘Aah, finally life flourishes’, thought he and let himself go
to the top of that blue consciousness
He, his oxygen bubbles and those electric fishes with smiling faces,
they all flied to top,
it was epic, the journey and its music

My first Edited Video [ A Music Video Cover]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef-AevJ3ITg

- This is an attempt in AVID xpress pro,done in 2007. I had a few footage of one of my teachers roaming in the streets of Singapore ,alone. He never shot those visual with any intentions of making a music video or documentary.So he shot it without using a good cam and lights.He just shot with his 'not very good' quality handy cam. When i came up with this idea,he immediately approved of it, thanks to his kind heart. I didn't have enough footage to put in the video but i managed to crop it without making it a mess. Most shots were dark and full of grains.I removed the grains as much as possible and added a color tone to the pale ,flat shots . All this is done before 4 years. I was a 22 year old student of mass communication,then.

P.S : To Sir and Sathya Ma'm- I can't forget you two and R S Puram in my whole life as i had the best time of my life, sitting in that beautiful 'Campus images' office,editing those videos. With love...Vaishak

Ennio Morricone And Spaghetti Westerns

Perhaps, Ennio Morricone, would be the first one to mix whistles and animal sounds in his music to give the westerns, their real ‘mood’. I happened to listen to his music when I watch ‘fistful of dollars’ in an old VHS cassette. Then I went to watch more westerns directed by Sergio Leone. Obviously, the first ones were “The good, the bad and the ugly “and “For a few dollars more” –

Morricone’s music has an epical grandeur about them, that really make you forget about the real time and space and it will put you in the screen time of the most violent times of west. Within minutes, you forget about yourself and stand in a desert place of Arizona.It was reported that Morricone scored film soundtracks even before “A Fistful of Dollars” but they went unrecognized. Anyway, his compositions impressed former school mate Sergio Leone who was going to make his first film and they together made history as everybody knows. Ennio scored for eight films that had become top grosser of the world.

By the research I have done with western films, I came to know that there were hundreds of them in the late 60’s and early 70’s after the mammoth success of Sergio Leone’s films. They were produced by Italian studios and featured Italian actors but once shooting gets over, they dubbed them into English for a comparatively large target audience. Enraged by the success of these dirt cheap Italian-dubbed films in United States, US critics collectively launched a propaganda war against them, in which they mocked them by adding a tag on their head - “Spaghetti Westerns”.

Led by the master craftsman ‘Leone’, the genre had made money, loads of money, almost like the treasure in the graveyard of “The good, the bad, and the ugly”. Most of those westerns used Ennio Morricone’s music for their soundtracks because they knew that without that music their films would have been skeletons. The common US audience who are always receptive to innovative ideas developed an immediate liking to these films and they became cult hits. Slowly, they became a part of Hollywood glory and thus, a significant part of American Culture.

Furious ride of triggered horses and the fate of gun slingers come in words in the next post “Death Rides a Horse”. Let me take a walk to that old B movie theatre owned by ‘Uncle jeepee’, the old film crazy, to watch one flop western movie. This afternoon is really hot,So I should avoid walking. It’s better to drive fast!

How To Be An Idiot In Life

If anyone wants to be a 10000 watts idiot in life, they can study my life. I am a living encyclopedia that has all the ideas and methods to be an idiot.
These are some reasons for me being idiot if you need any proof for that –

1. I still believe in divine love, pure vegetarian love

2. I believe that India will come back to its cultural origins after a point
of time

3. I believe that I will become a film maker ,one day

4. I believe that I can earn more by writing some fiction

5. I believe that I can live a peaceful life in this world

6. I believe that talent will get recognized one day

7. Other people will be just to me, one day

- See, What a hopeless, wonderful fool, I am. It is your luck if I am around you because you can exploit me and make a fortune out of my talents. I won’t learn from my mistakes. I don’t have any understanding of the world and about how it runs its daily routine. My kind of men are going to be a extinct species very soon. You won’t find us after one more generation. All your games are going to flop once we are vanished from this earth. After that point of time, world will be full of your kind of people. Whom you can cheat, exploit and make use of- Nobody! Because world is full of your kind of, smarter people.

- You are standing for saving tigers and wild life. You get to know the value of things only when they are lost. You don’t know the value of us, the losers. You winners get everything, every time just because of us. Once we are extinct, then there comes the days of tough competition for you, guys.

- You insulted us by calling us ‘losers’ when we stood there with the hurt of losing the match. You know that you won the match but what is the point of hurting somebody who is already hurt , by calling him a loser. Hello, this is planet earth and this is human life. There are two sides for every coin- You can’t be winners all the time. You better don’t call anybody a ‘loser’.

- This is something I don’t like in western culture. It insults and diminishes the people who lost the game instead of comforting and relaxing them.

- Hello losers, you are the real winners. Only because of you, winners become happy, they get girls. All of their game depends upon you and they take no guilt in destroying their life by plotting malicious things against you but at the same time, you feel guilty conscious for everything, even for the things you didn’t even imagine of. It’s your fate.

- My beloved losers, I am one of your kind. Let’s go back to forests and become Buddhas.Let’s become enlightened.

- We don’t need this place. We don’t need this corporate jungle where humans are worst than wild beasts. Instead, we will go to real jungle where we can listen to the music of greenery and birds. Let’s resign from this maddening crowd of this corporate market where greedy beasts brood with saliva dripping tongues.

- Let’s be one with nature. We can go back to the nature’s most original places. We will feel the music of nature and live happily. We don’t need to own the world because we knew that we are the real owners of the world.

Lake Side

It was in 2004 or 2005, I believe, I got exposed to this divine experience named ‘Lake Side’ for the first time. It is apparently a musical achievement of James Asher and Sivamani as they are creators of this magic. This is the third song on ‘A’ side of their album ‘Drums on Fire’. ‘DOF’ is a great album and a treat for ears that loves all kind of music around the globe. I believe that I was in home when I first heard this awesome music piece called ‘lake Side’. ‘Lake side’ is an excellent merge of best of Indian Classical Karnatic music and finest programming of western music instruments.

I automatically started making the visuals for the song when I first heard it. Fortunately, I had an opportunity to read many stories, especially Indian classical stories, in childhood. It really helped me to develop my highly stylistic and imaginative visualization. I bought ‘Drums on Fire’ just because it is a fusion music album by Sivamani and James Asher. I was not aware of the profile of James Asher at that point of time but Sivamani was known to me as he is the partner-drummer of Indian music genius A.R.Rahman. After ‘Drums on Fire’, I have done a research through which I found out the greatness of James Asher.

I always loved good fusion music and when I first heard ‘Lake Side’, it was bliss. It has the ancient music that enchants you with its blessed vibration. My subconscious started to visualize a beautiful lake with its water surface covered with white lotuses and when breeze touches them, they dance in ecstasy, in a rhythmic pattern. That was a beautiful visual, at least for me. On the shore of that lake, a very handsome man who has a face that presented no ego stands alone. He wears long white kurta and the song’s visuals come as his musings about his beloved or his love for his own composition and that music takes the form of a beautiful woman. It is an illusion- audience or the creator himself can’t decide on whether he sings about a woman he loves or his music takes a form of a beautiful woman.- The ragas he sings in ‘Lake Side’ becomes expression of her eyes, her movement, - It was a vision of unforgettable fragrance and I felt myself completed and contented on that day. I would elaborate the way I want to shoot it in another post because I want to dedicate an entire post for that, considering the elegance of its thoughts and visuals.