Interview:

Music is the language of the soul. It transcends politics, race, nationality, and is a way of recording history that all people can understand. In a world which now makes it possible for all of us to be in touch through the miracle of the Internet, the purist and least corrupted forms of musical expression are all available to most of the planet’s population to share for FREE!

This means that the glories of the vast treasure chest of the world’s sincere music is now available and can be preserved by anyone for all of us to share, and no longer has to be imprisoned by anthropologists in a bottle of formaldehyde. Everything from Bach to music of the Solomon Island tribesmen is now available to anybody and everybody to hear AND SEE BEING PERFORMED via YouTube.

Then, people can turn off their computers and go out into the world, meet and share musical experiences with others as well as tune into the divinity of the music that surrounds us from the time we are still inside our mothers, until we are born. Then we can share that heartbeat with others for the rest of our lives, and rejoice as we feel the drum of all living things which surround us.

This is NOT fake spiritualist New Age Hot Air rhetoric, so often used as a merchandizing tool to add to the desecration of sacred ancient religions, which has become a cottage industry that often obscures the Real Deal. The real deal is that everyone has a soul, a unique history, and an ancestral precious heritage. We can tune in every day to the music that surrounds us in nature, as well as become more aware of all the ways that music is created.

This includes the way people speak, and move, as well as the myriad forces of nature, gravity and celestial harmony, all of which are a form of musical structure. The spiritual aspects of all these components of music are there for all of us to learn from, and they touch each person’s soul in a special way, with NO CHARGE, no necessity to join anything, or the need of searching out a guru with a limo for guidance.

So rather than tuning in, turning on, and dropping out, which became the slogan for the Philistine commercialization of all the progressive ideals of the 1960’s and was co-opted by the Entertainment industry, today we can tune in AND STAY TUNED IN, and humbly try to be part of all the music that surrounds us, and add our own little song as a way of honoring all those who came before us and blessed us with their contributions.

At the same time, we must lend our support to all those younger than us to enable them to feel that they can tune into their own natural creativity, along with all of us. True music is built to last, and is the language of the soul. As my mentor, the great conductor Dimitri Mitropolous said to me, “In music and in life, the joy is in the giving”.

“Music is the language of the soul. It transcends politics, race, nationality, and is a way of recording history that all people can understand.”
– David Amram, author of “Upbeat: Nine Lives Of A Musical Cat”