Days and 40 Nights seems so disharmonious and irritating to me. How could that be healing?
Because we live in a masculine-dominant society, we’ve been culturally imprinted to favorably respond to male chord progressions (major chord progressions). 40 Days and 40 Nights expresses equal amounts of masculine (major) chord progressions, and feminine (minor) chord progressions, so it sounds unusual to our ears at first. This reaction is normal as your own innate sense of harmony is evoked and you attempt to balance inwardly what you perceive externally. This is one of the ways 40 Days and 40 Nights obtains its effects. Another note on these strange sounds: It has been clinically demonstrated that unusual intervals of frequency and the use of overtones can destabilize and even explode pathological cells in vitro. It’s also interesting to note that in countries where these types of intervals occur in the in the indigenous or hybrid-indigenous/popular music, cancer rates are much lower than in those countries whose music doesn’t include the richness of these intervals. Of course it’
