[8 Days of Kicksmas 2011] Favorite Song: il gato “On Feathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)”

In another year where artistic-electronic manipulation of sound rules most of the music we know and Love, it was this track, by the San Fran natives “il gato” that continues to blow me away with it’s “Indie-Baroque-Folkness” (did not come up with that… but I like.) There are so many angles I could take to explain why I like this track: the instrumentation, the ups and downs, THE VIDEO, the fact that it has moved me to tears more on more than one occasion. This piece is beautiful in every sense of the word. It’s tracks like this one, and Ray Charles’ “Georgia“, and Atmosphere’s “God’s Bathroom Floor“, and Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre“… I listen to these works and truly feel the joy, via the synapses popping off in my head, as if we could view them visually, it would be like another amazing episode of Planet Earth. Listen to the song, watch the video, if you don’t like it, then I could say some things that will probably offend someone, so…