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Yeeeaaaaaaaah!   

In a "keep in touch" e-mail with Gigi a couple of years ago I was telling him how I was being distracted from album completions by my activities in photography, videos and poetry. I included an earlier version of this poem which I thought was appropriate for him because of the title. His comments were kind and had poetry of their own. Now with his passing, for me the piece will always be bonded with him.


mare umbra

the celestial lakes
coalesce and rise

beyond the vortex
where the world is drawn

to the silence of the moon

and within the precision and detail
of its introspection    to birth

an atmosphere of enigma
and the sound of rain

Well, the characters are obviously based in reality. Lia = Lina and Mészáros = David Darling.   

I'm lucky to have a regular diet of delicious ambient music here at THE AMBiENT PiNG but this looks like quite a feast! If I wasn't a country and pretty-much a continent away I'd be in line for a heaping helping.    

For non-purists - the iMS-20 iPad version is half-price ($15) this week.
It's very, very good and you can apply a MIDI controller to all the knobs.

With its USB out - it will probably be a good controller for the Korg MS-20 VST which sounds pretty darn good and patches are savable, though with an awkward save/load interface. It will be the perfect way to compare the sounds of the analog vs VST by programming them both from the front panel at the same time.

I go back and forth on Lux depending on the listening context.

The special edition of Drums Between the Bells has a second all instrumental remix version which I like a lot. Again, I like the poetry version when the moment is right.

I have always felt that who you work with makes your job good or bad.

Yeah! Great music and video! No joke.

Your 10 year "plan" to just keep on creating and releasing has gone well. Congrats!