Broadly speaking, music is in service to the emotions. It can soothe anxieties, alleviate tensions and create meaning in a world that so easily gravitates to meaninglessness.

Music-makers in this sense are like soul-doctors, the modern day shamans, the ones who can spin and weave the fabric of sound in order to paint a picture, a picture that both expresses feeling and at the same time eases discomfort.

The power of music is the power to uplift, to put things back into a context, to the supposed intended way that has been messed up by the ordinary frustrations of life.

It begs the question, does in not, that in a world free of such frustrations, one predicated on psychological health, what need for music?