Very "The United States of America" vibe here, expecting a metaphysical circus to appear.
the master of odd! exotic and quixotic. .super trip
this piece is about 'play' in Morrison's description as 'activity without meaning' - as opposed to a 'game' which has rules etc. The piece is like Lord Byron having his pet bear at university.
I was playing the bass riff [bass could probably be a bit louder], and then as the repetitions got too ... even ... I moved on, thinking, that was an odd thing to do - you are supposed to hold down the bottom here, bass man! But such things add an element of surprise. True, keeping a riff going is a groove, but I want ungroove!
wonderfully disorientating esotericism,
. When we are dis-orientated, we lose our direction from the east - the orient - so then we go back inside - the esoteric - but when we dwell inside ourselves we find our East
shafts of light, drizzle.. looking up at the summit...
speeding through the santa monica mountains, that unknown spirit at my heels
you give great snapshots of this journey along the way, because you've been there too, and tasted those fruits and poisons
Amazing trip, !
. The thing about open self-generated improvisation is that the you of you comes out. It's kind of like a self therapy. My background in visual arts leads me to approach sounds
the production and mixing atc., is just as important as the playing - more so.
it's not about being good, it's about listening to yourself and freeing from expectation. It's not about whether not not it's good, it's about "does it take you someplace", and that's what matters. Sometimes, it's liberating to release *anything* you record for a week - come win lose or draw, you put it all out. Bad, indifferent, derivative, genius. Look back in a year and rethink!
the last three nights I have had Rainbow Bridge as my night time listening. Strange - I can listen to the avant guys, the Keiji Hainos and the Derek Baileys, who are great. But Hendrix is as out there as anyone. And he's the most famous guitar player in the western world!
a threatening player takes the stage
I so wanted to marry the noodling guitars with the symphonic organ based stuff, and it just flowed - I was going to say by accident: but I don't believe in chance. Everything has a meaning and reason, just a matter of finding it, man.
lyrics
Every journey is with danger,
Fraught.
And every single life comes to naught.
For it is only in the passing that meaning is found.
In the transitions from silence to sound.
And when the body is deconstructed
In the teleportal, its molecules melted,
It is only w'the pain of being torn asunder
That truth begins, ... and wonder.
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