Journeys Guided by Sound

#Egypt #journeys guided by sound #Pyramid #Music 2023.06.14

Egypt
A Great Heritage Buried in the Earth　4

The conversation went on and on, never coming to terms or settling on anything,
Frankly, we were in a delicate mood, as if we didn’t know each other,
I was exhausted with little sleep, but the beauty of the sunrise soothed me.

In any case, I learned something by discussing with a hard-core Arab Muslim in the middle of the desert,
The desert is a place of “nothingness,” and there is no better place to discuss the existence of God and the meaning of religion.

I still have no doubt that this experience was very meaningful for me.

There was no alcohol, but after the party.

Simply beautiful.

I am grateful for the beauty of this planet.
And that I am still alive and have people around me….

Gradually the fantastic view fades away,
(Still, the view is more than awesome enough..lol)

Everyone else is still sleeping, but I walk alone in the desert.

I think about what we discussed earlier and my life in the future…,

Not long after, back at the encampment, even though some of the guys are still sleeping soundly lol
Gradually, everyone wakes up and starts to clean up.

There was nothing in the rearview mirror the whole time.
We passed through a number of wide expanses of nothingness, and when we looked ahead, we saw even wider expanses of nothingness.
Ahead of me and behind me, there were just empty roads and empty skies.
The vastness of this world made me feel very alone.
The world is so huge that people get lost in it from beginning to end.
There are too many ideas, too many things, too many people, too many directions to go.
The point of being passionately in love with something is that it reduces the world to a more manageable size,
I almost truly believed that.
Then the world would feel like a place full of possibilities instead of a vague, empty void.
If I were an orchid hunter, I wouldn’t think of the universe as an empty place that breeds sadness.
I would think of it as a place where countless opportunities lie and the things I love are waiting to be discovered by me.
The Orchid Thief　~A True Story of Beauty and Obsession~
by Susan Orlean

Everyone is ready for action and gets back into the car.

Still, it’s a spectacular sight.
The colors.

Sunlight is both the cruel light that illuminates everything and the light of truth that brings everything out into the light.

I can be philosophical about it, but anyway, as a tourist, I also take commemorative photos lol

Enter the artificial world again,
to the main subject, the oasis.

Now, I no longer feel uncomfortable with artificial things,
I was amazed at Yosuke’s naivete, enjoying it to the fullest, and at the same time, I was at ease.

The events of that single night in the desert passed like a dream,
I returned to Cairo.

People, people, people

When I come back, I think to myself arrogantly, “Man is a silly and yet lovely being.

What are we living for, what were we born for?
Not only for myself personally, but also for this human race, this human being…,

I have always been uncomfortable with Darwin’s theory of evolution, although my own theory is something else entirely,
I will discuss that at another time…,

Anyway, it is always the music that concerns me.

Seek music in the crowd.

To begin looking for local music in earnest, you must first plunge into the streets.

Khan el-Khalili

It appears at night.

People seek sound at night.

The sun that brings everything to light has set, and at night we know that everything is an illusion.

This universe is mostly dark.

That is why we who live in darkness seek the light.
Even if it is an illusion.

Khan el-Khalili Cairo Egypt 2013

On this street that has been here for thousands of years, the lives of people have remained unchanged for thousands of years…,

It may be the sound of electricity being used, but it is not muddy in its wildness.

Cairo Street Egypt 2013.1

Cairo Street Egypt 2013.2

Natural is too mild a word to describe it.

It is harsh and furious.

There is an uncontrolled soul here.

Now it’s time to dive into the real music.
It still remains.

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J.A.K.A.M. (JUZU a.k.a. MOOCHY / NXS /CROSSPOINT)
http://www.nxs.jp/
https://linktr.ee/JAKAM

Born in Tokyo, he started playing in bands and DJing at the same time when he was 15. As a DJ, his innovative and original style and his activities have quickly expanded from huge festivals to underground parties both in Japan and abroad. In 2003, he went on a recording tour with local musicians in Cuba, and since then he has been recording all over the world, and started his own label, Crosspoint, as a new guideline for New World Music.
In music production, he has also produced video works, picture books and art books, and organized the outdoor festival “Jomon and Rebirth” in 2012.
9 consecutive months of vinyl releases in 2015 became a big topic, and his fourth album was released at the end of that year, which led to the worldwide release of his new album on the Berlin/Israeli label Malka Tuti.
HIGHTIME Inc. with DJ TASAKA in 2017, and ZEN RYDAZ, a unit with MACKA-CHIN of Nitro Microphone Underground and MaL of PART2STYLE, in 2018.
In the same year, his music under the name of J.A.K.A.M. was released in analog form on the French label HardFist, which led to a live performance at the huge 30,000-person Nuits Sonores Festival in Lyon, followed by a DJ tour of Europe and Israel.
In 2019, the production of MYSTICS, a unit with Marcus Henriksson and Kuniyuki of Minilogue/Son Kite, which has a worldwide following, will begin, and the long-awaited album will be released in 2021.
His original vision is spreading across all genres and around the world.