
|
This
suite was the composition that more or less sealed the fact that I had shifted
into a new world. Like Atahualpa Yupanqui, it is written in the traditional three-part
suite form of strong opening, introspective middle and dance finish. Each of the
movements developed itself in reference to aspects of the medicine path I had
encountered. The first movement is for the medicine Ayahuasca, the divine serpent.
The second is for Guillermo, an intense, alone beauty, and the third is for Francois,
a Django Rheinhart styled torrent of feeling.
Through this composition I
understood that one's own viewpoint or judgment on one's playing is completely
arbitrary, whereas the experience of the moment while one is playing is quite
real, and offers a chance to pay tribute to the astounding power, beauty and infinite
wisdom of the world. |