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This final segment 5 was completed on August 29, bringing the album to a close. It weaves new material, with themes from the first movement at a faster tempo.
The closing coda is a recapitulation of the ending theme from the center movement.
All the pieces are in place, and the whole is revealed.
Thanks for sharing in this “Experiencing”.
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Segment 2 presented a flow of an Abstract Expression to a Song about a Plum Tree. Segment 4 is a mirror image, offering a Song about the prolific, beautiful and exemplary Rosemary that graces the Rainbowland landscape, flowing into an Abstract Expression. Abstract-Song / Song-Abstract. Bridges of mirroring symmetry, framed in three movements of symmetry. The album structure is now revealed. Fun stuff.
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This is becoming most enjoyable, watching an album take shape. I am discovering and recognizing it as it happens, but the Muse is creating, and I am an instrument.
Again, the words are coming from Rupert Spira, either directly, paraphrased, or influenced. The mid-section of this segment is a resetting of a 1996 song called “The One”.
Truth, love and beauty reside at the source of experience. They are our Self.
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Feels like a vision for what will ultimately be a new album is starting to take shape.
Here is the second segment, Experiencing II. It comes in two parts. The first is an improvised layered musical abstract with a rhythmic speech-voice overlay. The second is a contrapuntal pop tune honoring the amazing Plum Tree that has graced the lower corner of Rainbowland these many years.
Enjoy!
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After David Crosby’s passing – a significant event in my life – I was listening to all things Croz. I got to the CSNY live album, 4-Way Street. Neil Young introduced a solo song by saying, “this one starts out slow and just kinda unravels from there…” I thought to myself, “yeah, I wanna do something like that.” Something that doesn’t go much of anywhere for a chunk of time, and yet when it comes on the iPod, I respond, “Oh good! I love this one.”
So here it is. “Experiencing”.
I’m much less frequent in the studio these days. When I’m there, the windows are shorter, and my work is slower. Still, there is much percolating within. This first chunk has been a slow joy and a lingering satisfaction. Is it part of a bigger project? No idea.
I am experiencing.
Doug
