TIKHET – Right Now I Can See

Songs are tickets to another world. Especially when Sepalot and Angela Aux take the lead. Their kaleidoscope of micro-sampling is contemporary, yet the composition remains timeless.  Dragging 90s drums plus laid-back 70s soul sections pass the baton to lo-fi indie rock à la Black Keys, with unexpectedly bluesy vocals from Angela Aux.  Suddenly, a psych-rock sample comes out of nowhere, followed by the soulful, casual hook that fits the theme of the song, which, with melancholic calmness, laments the eternal ups and downs of life.  Next comes another unexpected twist with “freekind.” the Croatian/Slovenian duo of rapper/singer Sara and drummer Nina.  Naturally, life is similarly unpredictable in its constant reformatting of familiar figures and elements.  One could attest to the eternal recurrence of the same, which brings us to philosophy, fitting the first line of the track: “How can you be truly free, when you know it doesn’t last?”  It seems that life follows the principle of composition: the prerequisite for the freedom of life and art is the freedom of thought.