Surrender, relax, be swept away by music

... I don't know if you've ever read much about the history of shipbuilding? Old wooden ships had to be constantly caulked up because they leaked. When technology improved, and they could make stiffer ships because of a different way of holding boards together, they broke up. So they went back to making ships that didn't fit together properly, ships that had flexion. The best vessels surrendered: they allowed themselves to be moved by the circumstances. 

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part...
( Surrender. It's Brian Eno by Stuart Jeffries, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 April 2010)

This is a quotation from an interview Brian Eno gave the Guardian and it reminded me of what I saw at the RollingStone weekender on the faces of some of the musicians playing. It made me happy, inspired me, carried me away and let me feel the rhythm.

They radiated the joy they felt playing their instruments or singing with loving compassion, interacting with the other musicians. I enjoyed no end and relaxed to the music. I was swept away at the Baltic Sea hearing the mermaids singing!
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Btw I learned about people photography that it's always important to focus on the eyes. When you look at my pictures, I did a really bad job ;-) In this case the expression on the artists' faces reflected a very intimate moment, nearly everybody closed the eyes. They could share their music with us, but not everything that was going on in their minds. The soul didn't speak through the eyes, but through the mouth or the instrument.