A day of small blockages and aggravations stand up in front of a powerful new current coming online. The focus is this: how tradition and innovation come together in the present moment to renew and recreate. This concerns time, and our experiencing of time. What is time? What is a present moment? (This rhetorical interrogation courtesy of the Ineluctable Recapitulations of Arbert Poot). And just another day in World Central, grappling with the praxis of sending music out into a noisy world.
O Music, redeem all those with open ears and hungry hearts.
Jamie Muir has now launched a laughing box's cackling into the sonic foray behind me. And do I hear bird calls? This was the show which ended with Jamie upending a sack of leaves onto the studio floor.
The Big Three + Julie checked into the Website at our end-of-day vibration. The "Angel Of The Presence" (artist Peter Willis) now greets our visitors, and welcome to all contributors to the beginning-again Guestbook.
Alan Cosgrove, my friend since 1962, came for lunch. Alan is the man who took over my job as a Junior Negotiator in Welch & Lock, Auctioneers & Estate Agents, Wimborne, when I set off for Bournemouth College (1965). Alan (a short-time drummer) was one of four good friends, along with Greg Lake, Howard Pettridge (the singing bass player with Cremation) and myself. Alan's stories of the estate agent's life in contemporary Wimborne mirror my own experiences in the world of music.
David & Robert began re-mastering "Sacred Songs", and we learnt that Virgin will not grant permission for Pony Canyon to release the "Schizoid Man" EP with the sixth track (from Mexico City in 1996). We were told this was agreed, but Declan the Hero had actually said no. Perhaps Japan would like the existing 5 track version? We'll see.
Now I am off to London for a hot date with my Wife.
"Space has its own rules and determining conditions."
