I have been writing this blog now sporadically for a few years. The basic method of listening closely to an album and then writing something like a detailed review has been fun, and it has made me listen very closely to what I’m hearing.
But at the same time my day job has become more and more cognitively challenging over the past couple of months; I have had to learn and analyze quite a lot of new stuff – and me and my brain are not getting any younger…
This, in turn, has resulted in writing less, and also, to be perfectly honest, listening to music less; I’ve been pretty worn out after work. But times they are a-changing and I am now switching to a four day working week with every Friday off. And this, I hope, will give me more energy and more opportunities to do what I really like to do, and this will include more music.
I’m also starting a more relaxed way of doing this blog. One of the ways of doing it is using a speech to text app to dictate my thoughts. I’ve tried this before, but the app I used then didn’t work as well as I would have hoped. The one I’m using now seems to work fine, and it probably will result in a lot more text than I have been able to write (sorry about that 😉)
I am also letting go of trying to create serious in-depth reviews or learned commentary. Music, for me, is energy and life and light, so it’s easier and more natural for me now to adopt a more off the cuff approach and not even try to pretend to be a specialist in this branch of music and culture.
Because, in the end, I’m just a Finnish CeltBritNordic folk music fan and aficionado, and an aging one at that. So I want this blog to be as much fun for me – and you – as the music itself ❤️🎶🎻🎹🪗🪈🪕😃✌️
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