Resonant Landscapes
 

This is an invitation, or excuse, to look at and talk about landscapes.

From Fingall`s Cave to Strawberry Fields, composers have acknowledged a link between landscape and music, and as listeners we are also free to associate music with any place we choose to.

I`d be interested to know what places have a special, personal significance to MB members, and what music it makes you think of.

For example,this is an area of West London that I`ve walked through hundreds of times I should think:

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It`s an award-winning developement of social housing built in the sixties which invariably reminds me of the John Cooper Clarke song, The Valley of the Lost Women :

How about you ? Any photos or associations to share ?

I should imagine that a subject like this is highly subjective due to people getting more of a n emotional experience attachment to certain pieces of music than others and their landscape resonance much different to others.

I do appreciate the thread though and I find certain pieces of music attract to me to a certain place or fit thematically in my head with certain landscapes.

This track just makes me feel like I am floating over a neon lit New York City whilst sipping on a nice whiskey and tooting on a fat cigar:


This reminds me (probably more lyrically so) of urban tower blocks and looking to find something to relieve the boredom:

^ Yes, I`m sure people`s associations vary a lot. Either that, or they`re really obvious - like Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, which rather obliges you to be flying around the Solar System.

I liked your songs and the places. There`s a really fed-up feeling to the Clash one, though the John Martyn took me to some elegant late-night jazz club, instead of floating over NYC !

This one is probably rather obvious : I`m in a bar on some wind-swept road like this ...

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... whenever I hear a song by The Young Tradition :