Namaste Readers,
Listening to Techno/Club music reminds one how much this musical genre have in common with haiku poetry. The obvious similarities of both are their paucity for words and their sense of movement. Both can also have a setting, an aspect of time, a mood, and a provocative idea that captures a moment and its beauty.
"Nowhere Left To Go" ( Dave Rose Mix ) by Louie DeVito featuring Lucas Prata exemplifies the elements mentioned above. While the title phrase ( nowhere left to go ) is the only one repeated throughout the track, the word 'no' is emphasized intermittently. This simplicity and suggested direction are reminiscient of e.e. cummings' visual poem about a falling leaf.
Where gravity pulls e.e. cummings' leaf, DeVito's urgent lyric aspires to burst out of its cul-de-sac. The galloping beats and other creeping synthetic sounds of clamped cymbals, muted horns, and glass-vibrating xylophones start to crescendo like a tea-kettle whistling. But instead of reaching an explosive shrilling point, it fizzles and bubbles back where it began.
Are the efforts of dreaming, escaping, and hoping futile? The track seamlessly fades into the next track as one continues to dance chasing the dawn.
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