A Sentimental Note Featuring Drake

A few months ago I began a journey (or a trip, one could call it) that started with my mind opening up at a junction of four paths deep in a New Zealand reservoir. My mind wandered throughout the trees and my thoughts followed winding motions as they swirled in the air and shimmered alongside patterned plants. I became aware of how my thoughts were influenced by the sounds I was listening to and when my environment was absent of man-made music, it was replaced with the music of nature. Music surrounded me. As I looked around, I realized that music was one of the most important things not only to me, but to everyone else as well. Why was that? What does music have, what does music do? My postulation is that words can only get us so far. We have invented these things to try and help us describe the indescribable. Let me rephrase: while language is a major factor to communication, it doesn't cover everything. The need to hug, the need to love and even emotion itself are not adequately described by words. So when what we're undergoing is incommunicable, we turn to music. It combines language and story telling with melodies and beats that evokes a certain feeling or fire within you, and that feeling you get is (hopefully) consistent with the one the artist had. By listening to a song together, everyone who is involved is experiencing the intended feeling together. Music connects us by sharing a sentiment within us - a sentiment that moves beyond the capacity of words.

Therefore when you build a relationship or friendship off of music I feel like it's that much more genuine as you understand each other beyond what you can physically describe. So recently when a cherished relationship/friendship I had that was entirely music-based disintegrated, it left this strange hole in me, as I could no longer share my feelings through music. My outlet was gone. I didn’t have that indescribable connection with someone anymore.

And that’s how East West Melody started for me. Not through a desire to share the newest thing that's a piece of shit, but through a desire to share good music that can connect us – music that makes us feel as one. While maybe we are separated by thousands of miles, or maybe even just a wall, having the idea that we’re somewhat letting our wordless emotions out to people is slowly filling that hole within me. So just press play and lean back, and with confidence you can feel as though there’s someone out there who can commiserate.