A Paean to Julian Lage - On the release of Nothing Happens Here and Speak to Me
This morning Julian Lage dropped a new track on YouTube https://youtu.be/oSRvSS-87-g?si=allH7onAkV5KFMxT Nothing Happens Here I set out on my walk planning to listen to it but I heard just the first notes before I realized that since I was not subscribed to YouTube I would have to keep my phone out and awake, so I decided just to listen to it when I got home, but those first few notes got me thinking about Mr. Lage and his Voice... Channeling a Nino Rota in Fellini film score. Compare La passerella d'addio from "Otto e mezzo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tIKUt9VpLk What other fractal neighborhoods could he find? As a guitarist as a musician He is like a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. To say that he's eccentric is just to mistake that he's not concentric, confined to convention, the center is just to say the foci of his musical ellipse proliferate in the elliptical ellipsis... Lessor talents drive a stake into the ground ...
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