Sometimes you have to travel into the unknown, leave behind the familiar places and light out for a destination that's only hinted at, imagined. It's over the hills, beyond the river's mouth, on the other side of the lake. Unseen.
This song is an unknown landscape. Its open space is traversed by a haunting vocal melody, echoed by electric piano. This is your pathway through wonders. As you move through it other features become known to you; rumbling bass, clear tenor sax, percussion quieter than footfalls. Then another voice whispers in your ear, guiding you along while the instruments take turns revealing themselves and then retreating into silence. Eventually even the ghostly vocal melody disappears and you realize that you have arrived at your destination. Silence.
(Gerhard Richter Seascape - image source)
Posted by Jeff at July 21, 2015 5:18 PM