By José Gandue @Gandour
Photo: Manuel Padilla.
Part of the magic of these days It's clear that in music, anything goes, even a return to the roots of times long forgotten. The intensity of the seventies is as valid in the present as the most sophisticated electronics made with devices created just yesterday. There is no single sound of the moment, there is nothing that necessarily grabs us in 2015. That's why it's incredibly silly what some experts claim when they insist from their pulpits that rock is dead or that insisting on this genre is remaining trapped in trends that should have expired in the last century.
See Iron helmet, the latest video from the Argentinian group In Corpus Sanctis, It's about rediscovering faith in psychedelia. It's about letting yourself be captivated by a revolution of visual textures that overlap one after another, while the music rides over you. This clip subtly illustrates times of uncertainty, experimentation, doubt, and pleasures free from guilt. Times where our hesitations are the same as those of our grandparents, where our spiritual quests are not too far removed from those of other generations. 2015 is a freer temporal territory, that much is clear., But our bewilderment has not necessarily been buried by the passage of years.
We insist, this is an open era, where every sound has relevance. Let's not allow forced labelers to take that joy away from us.
