For the longest time I could not stand the sound of music with brass instruments. It wasn't until I sat through and thoroughly enjoyed a real mariachi band while in LA a couple of years back. This really opened my ears. I somehow came across an amazing live album ("live albums" are also not one of my favorites, but I digress) called Boban Markovic Orkestar "Live in Belgrade".
Well, I have been in school and busy as Hell (Yes, literally. Soul-harvesting is a lucrative but time consuming business). The mix of school and my various musical lessons have taken up most of my time. New concepts/ideas have been forming during this time, unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to act on these ideas.
I have been thinking about the role of silence in music lately. It is possibly the most overlooked subject in music today. Many people believe that it is a blank canvas on which the painting of sound is put upon, but its actually part of the music as well.