Hildegard Westerkamp - Into India (2002)

Some of you know that I am currently working weird hours. Sometimes I have one or two weeks off, and then the next time I work, I am putting in 80 hours or more. Well, I can listen to music while I work, so between that and the commute, you now have a better understanding of my listening volume (amount, not loudness for those of you that are jackoffs). When I start to reach the point of exhaustion, I take little trips. Nothing is more powerful than a cohesive field recording, based entirely around either a place or an idea, to break up monotony and keep my imagination in shape. The recording in question here is of India, clearly, and it is of the type that retains a heavy amount of the source material untreated. However, the contexts are what you should pay attention to here. Transitions, juxtapositions, all the little things that mark a true craftsman (or woman) in this genre are present. I found myself yearning to drop what I was doing and spend even a day in India, just as I longed to fly around the world upon seeing the film 'Baraka.' For you haters, let go for a moment and listen to this without thinking about anything else, or reading, or anything.