I recently visited my grandfather’s place and spent an entire evening with my uncle looking at his precious collection of vinyls. I was lost in the stories and charm of the vintage world. I had written a blog about listening to music on cassettes but this world was farther beyond. The feel of a record in your hand after you take it off its sleeve, the craft-fully designed layouts on the sleeve with song details, artist names, and finally the pure calming vintage sound that comes out once you place the record on the record player is an experience. Listening to music on a vinyl record is a pro-actively driven action of a hard-core connoisseur of music.
Evolution has got us to witness a time where AI makes music, any song can be heard in any person’s voice (alive or dead) and it is hard to make out whether an art-work is human or made by AI. It is fascinating to see the humungous power of technology and how it will help us, humans to live a better life. But when it comes to music, where we can currently listen to ANY song at the tap of a finger on our devices, just the idea of listening to a song on a physical device like the record player makes my heart warm.
From the point of view of making music, today, the software and programs have made it simpler and opened up so many pathways to new sounds. We do not need a physical instrument today to use it in a song. The sound processing and the post recording techniques available today enable to have a pitch perfect and flawless output towards any music recorded. The creativity is endless in this sphere. What I do miss though is the purity and calm. Imagine the old recordings where all the musicians, singers rehearsed for days and recorded the song LIVE. Imagine the amount the efforts, practice, riyaz and synchronisation put in to make the one song, Imagine the ‘heart’ element in it. I do not mean to say that there is no ‘heart’ in music today, I record every note and every lyric with full 100 % ‘heart’ mode but to make it simpler, the ‘heart’ used then during the vinyl age was one large big heart and one we use today are small fragments scattered all over and trying to come together as one. So today, we feel the need to use a ‘vinyl plug-in’ on our sound mixes externally to add some ‘heart’ to our output.
So many artists are going back to printing vinyls for their albums even in today’s world. They are seeking the purity, the calm, the tranquility amidst the chaos to share their music experience. It would be my dream to record an album and release it on a vinyl. Just plain heart-made music, no videos, no reels, no ‘content’ , just music!
Would you buy it? Do you have any memories of listening to music on vinyl records? Do let me know in the comments!
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