Interview:

Far from being just a source of entertainment, I think music definitely has a spiritual meaning. It fascinates me how it can reach through all the layers of our soul and touches our deepest unadulterated core. Our true self, the one untainted by rationalization and physical reality’s grasp on our existence. Put a bunch of humans together in a same room who like the same music, and suddenly all religious, racial, and cultural difference concerns can vanish so easily. It has the greatest rallying power, and it makes us realize we’re all living organisms on the same level of existence. It also has the power to either make you feel part of a grand whole, an empathic musical mass communion, or feel like the one and only lucky individual experiencing the most intense head-trip alone. The way music can move the soul and let us travel our personal mindscapes is somewhat bordering the divine. Most of the best ecstatic moments I had in life were accompanied with music. It helps to attain another state of consciousness and thus is the perfect catalyst to freedom. Even if freedom is a matter of perception, I think that the true one is of spiritual nature. As long as music lives in your mind you can’t really be shackled. Music let us express feelings we have without using the simple and incomplete science of words. Internal movements and currents impossible to describe suddenly exist in another form. Music can be a liberation, exorcising ourselves of everything that may pass though our system, positive or negative. Now if only the decision makers of this world would listen to more music, I’m sure we’d live in a healthier world were peace wouldn’t be an unreasonable utopia.

“Music can be a liberation, exorcising ourselves of everything that may pass though our system, positive or negative.”
– syriaK, guitarist and vocalist in Unexpect