Untouched

I've been on holiday.

It's not a great excuse but its better than nothing.

I spent the Christmas period in New Zealand with my family over there, it was great to see some very good friends I haven't seen in years. Especially my cousin Reuben, who I used to play a lot of music with when we were younger. It is always interesting hearing what he's writing and playing over such a long time of not seeing him.

We often talk about different styles of music, what were into, what were not so into anymore. And we came to the conclusion that in order to make a lasting career in music, you need to either be completely original, or way better than what came before.

Which bought us to the question of course, is there any original left to be had? Probably... But probably not that much...

A week later we went on a little boat trip down a river. We went down for miles and miles and the tour guide eventually stopped the boat and turned off the engine... and thats when you realized. Just how quite it was. No sound of traffic, no nothing. Just the background music that nature provided. The tour guide told us that at this exact point, there was no real civilization for miles in every direction... He then made a cheap joke (like they always do at these things) that boat had stopped working and that we'd have to swim back.

And it bought me back to me and my cousins discussion. Was there any where in the music world that is completely untouched or undiscovered? Even for miles in every direction? Somewhere as serene and beautiful as where we had found ourselves.

I hope so.