Patagonia2

Here is a bit of an experiment: I want to match music to how we feel at these places we go. There is a such a huge impression when a landscape and a sound match.

I heard once on NPR that Neanderthal language consisted of gutteral grunts, banging with hands, dancing and clicks of the throat. This anthropologist talked about how our instinctive draw to certain pitches, beats, and melodies goes back to our Neanderthals roots (Apparently they did not die in a big cataclysm, our Homo-Sapien ancestors more likely killed the Neanderthal men and ran off with the women- so we share their genes. And perhaps an ear for music). If this is true it means certain melodies contain meaning. Music to soothe a child, to warn of approaching danger, to indicate happiness and sadness; a meaning buried to us now, but the sounds today would evoke a certain distant emotion. If he's correct or not i have no idea, but its interesting that certain melodies do evoke so much emotion and at times it is easy to feel that it is something hardwired in us.

Standing in the desolate and magnificent, jagged and harsh landscape of Patagonia i liked this: (click arrow)
Hot Chocolate by Shonen Knife(Stereolab Remix)