the Drift
Walker’s the drift is making it’s way into me. It might be brilliant, or I might be going mad. I’m not sure really. But what has the man been thinking about? Some people think that Mr. Waits it’s difficult music, well, I agree that it might not be the easiest kind but listen to this. And then there’s lyrics. I’m so glad I got this on vinyl, with big booklet of lyrics in it. I would like to have a cd copy of this though. If anyone has this, please send me a note.
Nadja is still awesome, although I do notice that I mostly like the “pop” songs in there, like stays demons and bug/golem.
I found out that the only way to get Bass Communion’s indicates void is to order the C packet from tonefloat, which has all the first five c-releases (indicates void being one of them) on clear vinyl. Normally I would love this, but I’m unemployed again so the money is kinda problem since the packet costs 100€. And I haven’t heard the other albums or artist at all.
Tonefloat is also releasing 5 lp set from fear falls burning (which I think is another project of VidnaObmana) which could be very nice. I think I need a job just to satisfy my needs. Bummer.
Yesterday I was hearing Mike vargas playing. All the pieces were improvisations, played mainly with piano. Very nice work. I enjoyed listening to it. It’s nice to find rhythms even when there’s no attempt to a rhythm. He talked about trying to um.. condence(?) the process of improvising to make it interesting all-the-time. I think he came to this after hearing a lot of improvisated gig/music and found them mostly boring. So I understood that he has worked with this for a long time, this condensation of things. And in a way it is hearable, there’s was not dull moments in that 45minutes(?) but still there was these evolutions. How something comes to being, crystallizize, and it might be that there’s minutes of music before and there’s minutes music after but that one point of happenings is somehow the essence. This however doesn’t make those minutes before and after unnecessary. If we would only took that minute or two of crystallization it wouldn’t work, it wouldn’t mean the things it does, because it wouldn’t have history and it wouldn’t have future.
This is what is so nice in improvisation (and also in a lot of good [time related] art I guess). You see/hear something happening, you don’t quite make it out what it is, the logic the sense of it, but you can feel it’s evolving. At somepoint (hopefully) the crystallizations comes and then all that have happened before makes sense, and somehow all that happens after makes sense (maybe) too. When doing a long improvisations there might be many points of these crystallizations, or maybe they could be said to be points of light.
Evolving I -> point of light which illuminates (gives meaning, logic, sense) to all that have happened before -> aftermath which could follow the “logic” (be illuminated) of things happened before or it can fall (into darkness) into another mystery < -> evolving II -> point of light which again gives meaning what happened before, it also can connect evolvings and points of light I&II
And you never know what happens but still you do know, and sometmes when you don’t know and then you’re given realization and you do know. It’s this ongoing discovery, and in this discovery is also delight.
Yes I quite enjoy that.
I guess Mike is not doing another solo gig in Finland, but you can go to see the piece in zodiak where Mike is playing and they have 8 dancers dancing, improvising. Should be interesting too.
Yeah. I have to do something soon, I guess.
