![]() What you probably wouldn’t want to listen to is hip hop or rock music with a lot of lyrics that take a bit of your attention away from what’s ahead of you. I find that Brain.FM is great for this but really any holosync style tunes would work. ![]() You want to listen to focus promoting music while trying to reach flow. Is perhaps the original flowstate trigger. Thus you’ll want to spend 15 - 20 minutes doing meditation, brain training or something like HRV training with Heartmath emWave Devices mentioned above - I’ve reached some very sublime flowstates with cannabis (you probably don’t want to get high on weed in the middle of the workday, so maybe try some small doses of CBD oil) and HRV training, as have others and some research on the Heartmath Institute’s website has some interesting published research. ![]() įocused attention is a really crucial component of flow. Thus I would suggest doing this in the middle of your work day to get yourself into a peak state. The professional work environment can be counter-intuitive to flow work often involves rote, repeated tasks that more monotonous than challenging and often business we don’t get immediate (or instantaneous) feedback on our performance it takes weeks, months or years. How much more productive and happy would that make us? If you’re not lucky enough to live in tiki hut next to a beach where you can go surfing daily I’ll suggest spending a little bit of time on a daily flow practice. Just thinking about it exhausts me.Ideally we’d all like to reach flowstate with some regularity. While not the most traditionally math release, if you like your music weird, colourful, artificial and adrenaline churning, with hints of retro gaming pastiche, look no further than This Is The Third. The elongated bridge in ‘Turnaround’ provides probably the most compelling evidence of this. The name ‘Chaos Emeralds’ gives a major clue to what is going on sonically in This Is The Third – it sounds like an attempt to recapture the feel of early 90s Sega game soundtracks ( Sonic 2 springs to mind). These experiments work brilliantly, and help bring yet more musical flavour to the table. ‘Mazel Tov’ is a cheesy synth funk number with saxophones and a slide whistle burbling away in the background ‘Turnaround’ is practically an electronic Irish jig and ‘Chaos Emerald’ features what is either a set of Uilleann pipes or a guitar doing a very good impression of one. It wouldn’t be an Adebisi Shank album if it stopped there though. This album feels very much like a natural progression of what made the band’s sound so unique on prior albums, but this time with every setting turned to full. I swear I actually heard a dial-up tone in there somewhere. Every instrument (besides one bizarre but beautiful piano passage in ‘Voodoo Vision’) has been stripped down, had flashing lights attached to it and programmed to create psychedelic robot rock. While they were admittedly always a little bizarre, on this album AS almost totally jettison what traditional rock sound they maintained on This Is The First and the slightly more eccentric This Is The Second and instead fully adopt synths, bring back the heavily modulated voices in force and add crushed, 8-bit-esque guitar tones. I say this because no sane group of people could have produced This Is The Third Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank.įollowing the well-worn Irish math rock band tradition of utterly losing it on your third release, a custom exemplified by And So I Watch You From Afar’s All Hail Bright Futures, the Shank appear to have set out to top the stirling effort of their fellow Sargent House band and produce something even brighter and flashier. Adebisi Shank, only questionably ever ‘there’ at the best of times, have gone off the deep end.
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