There’s been a lot said about the language of trees, but what if we returned to the musicality of plants, their receptivity to good vibrations and ability, in turn, to bring great inspiration to the most unexpected branches of pop music, as well as to all manner of composers. A look back on a genre that, though it never reach full bloom, still offers some rare specimens.
We can try to see things in chronological order, although it doesn’t really get us very far. The late great philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre states in his introduction to “Questions de méthode” that, from a dialectical perspective, chronological order is always the most meaningful. But the great philosopher is saying a bunch of crap, again. The…