Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon – Leave No Trace: Live In St. Louis

The universe has a strange way of speaking to us. After a decade+ long bender, I had an intense experience that made very clear to me a serious need to do some exploring of sobriety. Spending Cropped Out festival stone cold sober was a new/challenging/unusual experience, as I've always found music to pair quite well with altered states of consciousness. Then, when undergoing Tashi and Tyler's set ("undergoing" is the best word I can think of for the experience of bearing witness to their live onslaught), my knees went wobbly. I found myself forgetting where I was and what I was. I was almost laughing. After their set, I walked out of the room, carefully, completely tossed, mind-blown at the extent to which music can seriously fuck you up in a most humbling and wonderful way. These guys are IN it. This is the real good shit.