Amid the hippies, crews, and communes, one Vietnam war era counter cultural movement remained free from commodifiable clutter and was thus consciously kept in the dark.
Emerging from Ornette Coleman's circle in mid-fifties New York, colloquially known as "free jazz," music began to be more widely understood and expressed as a means of experiencing individual freedom. We are all here to be free to play, to play our own music, to play the music of others, to enjoy the music of others, and to come together and fill the air with our collective magic.
Although there was growing commercial appreciation of "free jazz" in the late fifties and throughout the sixties and seventies, by the eighties, artists who sought to freely produce and express their music were financially extradited to Europe. The music industry had firmly assumed its role in molding youth culture to maximize capital gains for corporate interests, filling our airwaves with sex, drugs, and teenage angst... drawing us away from who we are and into arenas for battle with our imaginary selves.