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I was fascinated by the natural way in which the guitarist, Ralph PAUL
Towner, the wind player, Paul McCandless, and the bass guitarist McCANDELESS
Glen Moore passed on the sound, each in turn modelling it and
holding on to it for a few moments before sending it back into friendship arising from
the shared space enriched with their own touches of colour, the interface between
silk-smooth descriptions of a nature that is imaginary but forces generated by
becomes possible through the way they lift us above inner overlappings and a
the landscape and into space, and into a magnificent sublimated depth of human
reception of images in a suite of picturesque sensitivity.
frameworks, digressions and bursts in the I remember Bruno Schultz
metaphysics of this superb act of communication, (the author of Mannequins) who
face to face with our rows of seats, with that speaks of “things which cannot
which existed materially in us at that moment exist in their entirety. [They] are too
and with that which we were succeeding large and too magnificent to fit into
in capturing through the chemistry going this existence. They only try to exist,
on in our minds and in sending on into test the ground of reality to see if it will
depths that we did not understand take their weight. And then they instantly
but which created pleasure. What withdraw…”. Music in its intensity of the
was happening on stage between moment has this same connection with
the musicians was probably the
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