Some random Mickey Hart interview i heard eons ago came to mind while watching this lively montage. Mickey talks about breath as the source of all rhythm, evolving palaeontologically into The Beat as we commonly think of it, or maybe just take for granted dancing around till sunrise in an ecstasy-propagated workout. It punches out the frequency of our hearts, our brain waives :-), REM flutter and just about everything else indicative of life. Even in dormancy there is a pulse, however faint.
The soundtrack for Akachi's short film is provided by the Brasilian-based ensemble, Barbatuques, who are also dedicated to exploring this rhythm-body-sound relationship. STOMP without all the toys. Their own website has some nice visual interpretations of their musical journey, definitely worth having a look at if you're in a free-thinking, relaxed mood and need something non-specified to focus on (that is not an oxymoron, contrary to how it reads). In all likelihood, Too Far West Is East was probably made with other objectives in mind, but it's a beautiful rendition of how rhythmically we humans behave, across vastly different cultural parameters and regardless of the material objects which partly define or direct our movements.
Too far west is east from Takayuki Akachi on Vimeo.
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