SEASON OF GOOD RAIN

This is something that Spanish artist Javier Miranda understands and delivers in his music. A clear example is this single entitled 'Season of Good Rain', which I understand was recorded back in 2012 but released until 2020, in pandemic times.

What we will find here are 8 minutes of ambient oriented music that opens our doors of percepction (yeah, I know that sounds like a cliché), and show us an introspective journey through all our senses. The title is beautiful but also, a bit deceiving because how do we know a rain is good? Of course, this is a figurative sense and even quite subjective, because music, just like nature, is capable of embracing us during our best and worst moments.

' 'Season of Good Rain' invites us to close our eyes, to feel, to sense. We can take a look back in order to define our next steps forward. It has a melancholic sound, which in moments can turn to grief, or to hope, it depends on you. Of course, the experience is way better with good headphones, so you can appreciate the different layers, elements, nuances added while the seconds pass. If this was a 20-minute track instead of an 8-minute one, I would not complain.

If you need music that touches your soul, if you feel the need of healing, this might work, or at least, give you a moment of plenitude.