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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
result of a long “unspoken”                                                                                         43
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