Artist: Melorman
Album: After Noon
Song: “Saturday Morning”
Label: Sun Sea Sky Productions
The mentalist and stage illusionist Derren Brown once described mindfulness as the ability to wake up in each moment, anxious and thinking you’re late for work, only to realise it’s Saturday morning and you can sink back into unhurried slumber.
There is no emergency.
We do not need to latch white-knuckled onto every thought that bubbles up from the murky soup of consciousness. The brain’s amygdala only cares that we stay alive, it has no interest in expanding the frontiers of well-being.
The title of Melorman’s song “Saturday Morning” reminded me of Brown’s comments about the uses of stoicism.
Antonis Haniotakis, aka Melorman
Melorman is the ambient-electronica project of Antonis Haniotakis, who hails from Athens, Greece. His music feels like a mix between lo-fi bedroom hip-hop and the chiptune-inspired soundtracks of composers such as Disasterpeace.
The chiming melody of “Saturday Morning” circles in a hypnotic loop. I imagine the music orbiting like a slow-motion funnel of wind. As it continues to circle and re-interrogate its core musical idea, there’s an upward lift that commences.
You start to feel less heavy. Then you float a centimetre off the ground, your shoes imperceptibly brushing the dirt. Then you rise.
Floating, feeling, falling back asleep.
