I am often amazed by how busy musical life in Canberra can be. I'm sure it's busier in Melbourne or Sydney or NYC but it can be pretty good here and it's so accessible. I have lived in places with much fewer offerings. But then it takes some awareness. We'd attended CSO playing Mozart Requiem just the night before, Thursday. Then my Tilt Trio had a gig in Dickson on Friday. I noticed Bohjass was playing at the very same time at Smiths. I didn't know the band but it was from Melbourne and seemed a fascinating little big band. I apologised to the band and managed to organise to mix a recording captured by soundman Bevan. Some of my best listens are of solos soloed during mixing, so it's a great pleasure. Our gig was a corker despite some temporary nerves. So now I await the multitracks of Bohjass to relive memories of Sun Ra in Rome and his remnant Arkestra later in London. What a web can be this music. And there's more on my plate, including a start in recent days on Honegger symph no.2 and playing Dvorak New World on stage tomorrow as I write this. What a pleasure is all this but busy busy it can be!
The image is Deities_in_the_Litany_of_Ra.jpg (public domain) from Wikimedia Commons. As in Sun Ra.
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