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Rock, Water, Sky
Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown
(Acrylic on canvas, March 2008)
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Breathing hard beneath
first spring sun
running, wide-striding
along mud of the river path
after the long winter, from inside I can only
make rough outline
of the joy of
all of
this.
Better, then, to describe
up there, the eagle:
high in clear blue sky.
lifted by warming
earth through cool winds,
he's been dreaming
for a while now.
But today it's real
to see and sense:
the fast-moving truth of open water.
-kmb, April 08
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Sun today, and clean fresh winds. But last week it snowed, and I was feeling under the weather. Thanks to Rusty Romance's stellar soundman, Glenn Howland--aka Mr. Coffee, aka Treeline Stringband-- I was able to record my way out of the blues. Glenn loaned me a fine mic and pre-amp particularly suited for acoustic music and I spent a day recording some pieces I've been working on for a few months. (How did Glenn know they were finished? Hmmm...)
One of the compositions I recorded was this piece for acoustic guitar-- a small-bodied Epiphone-- and acoustic steel-- the cool little 5 dollar Silvertone that John Goss made into a lap steel and gave to me.
I just finished mixing the piece today, using compression and echo to add texture, space, and motion around the notes. It's sort of an impressionistic acoustic slide guitar gamelan thing, maybe:
http://www.jukeboxalive.com/player/player.php?sid=1959093&method=play
