Winding down

the week, the year, settling into creative, meditative and organizing work. i slept cozy and warm last night while the winds blew furiously outside. today most of our management is out at work due to power issues, so its a bunch of mice playing - oddly i'm getting a huge amount of work done and its several hours later than i normally blog.

last night's session was fun - exploring some piano and tabla loops as well as finding patterns to pick on both my classical guitar and the bass/dobro hybrid built by gene gilliam. i had not printed out any lyrics so was going blind - knowing that the musical ideas would be a match for something i had written. i titled one piece "corona" as the tabla mood was perfect for what i had imagined and open-ended enough to allow for vast interpretation.

most of the time when i work with drums, be they live or be they dead, i end up finding some counter-rhythm, or some internally-linked key to reinterpret the downbeat. dave schiel is so fun to work with because he actually relishes this madness of mine - and keeps in his own world of beat, yet connected to me through intuition and experience.

i may include a piece or 2 from our recording session in october as part of this album. there were certainly a few "keepers" - as most of our process of playing together is for the moment only. its always a good reminder to me that life is like that when lived fully, the moment is where all points of magic exist, and in gratitude i am alive within it.