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Bowsprit
Balmorhea
Constellations
2010

This song gives me that so-beautiful-it-makes-me-feel-nauseous feeling I've been after lately.  It's the kind of song that, if it had little hands, would reach inside my chest and pull out my heart.  It turns me inside out.

And it is such a nod to the community and how it has changed me and the way I listen to music because this song is an instrumental, on an album of instrumentals.  The fact that I decided to listen to this at all is a tribute to you.  Before I heard songs like "AOD" or "Kétsarkú Mozgalom" I shied away from tracks labeled "instrumental".  It was like I didn't have the patience for them; that without words, I felt there was nothing to hang on to.

This song--its quiet start and gradual build--is so heart-wrenchingly beautiful.  It affects me every single time I listen to it; makes my ears strain to take every bit of it in.  I'm tempted to go through the song and the way it shifts and expands second-by-second, but I think I'm going to resist doing so (I will, however, mention the combination of banjo and strings--isn't that stunning?)  Just take five minutes and listen to it, without doing anything else.  This song makes me slow down, makes my mind stop reeling, brings me back into myself.