I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how special a place the world actually is. It’s funny, cause in our limited lives we often only operate within certain spheres, but we never get granted the experience to visit the whole world. Time’s too short for that; and the little time we are given, we spend traveling from home to the city and back. But I always wonder what it’d be like to proudly tell your significant other that you’ve seen the world. Not just seven cities; no, I mean the world. The beauty of the modern day is the fact that methods of communication have sped up to a degree most unimaginable to many of us, which in turn has has enabled us to experience – albeit quite a shallow experience at times, – what happens on the unknown territories somewhere on the surface of the world, the Milky way, I say.

Music from around the world gives many of us more of a feel than images. Images make us judge a situation we know nothing about, but music leaves our imagination open to any form of interpretation. Tribal, jungle, mantras, bongo-music, the list is endless. A song that places me in an aircraft flying across the globe, seeing all villages and towns from Africa to East-India to the North Atlantic back to Amsterdam is  Julio Bashmore‘s Footsteppin’, which will be on his forthcoming two-track EP out soon. I quite like to see this as an enjoyable trip alongside the oceans of hills, trees, villages, cities, skylines and grass fields we will likely never see.  A timeless notion which takes over control the minute you listen to these hypnotic, mellow vibes.

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