“Blinding Light” (Andalou-dog song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

Andalou-dog1_crop — Andalou-dog, image courtesy the artist

“Blinding Light” and its layers of processed piano sounds like the modeling of leaves falling from trees in the autumn wind. Apt for a song looking back on the past of the echos of voices long thought dead or in perpetual hibernation or whose energy was transformed into something more productive, beginning as it does with an electric insect buzz, introspective, minimal, melancholic piano and a reverted echo of a Mussolini speech. Though the winds of authoritarianism have blown throughout the world once again with leaders spouting that sort of rhetoric familiar to those who lived through the first half of the twentieth century Andalou-dog’s song beckons us not to succumb to those voices much more to the despair that comes with thinking they are more powerful than they are. The song suggests that as strong and seductive as the wave of emotion and intensity can be it can dissolve into nothing nearly as easily if we do not amplify the phenomenon and deprive it of support in the various ways we can because few things are inherently inevitable in the political and cultural sphere, all things being contingent on the context for them to manifest whether fascism or inspired art and social justice movements. Listen to “Blinding Light” on Soundcloud and follow Andalou-dog at the links below.