"This music sounded to me like a zen koan.  A verse that, if you unlock just a piece of it, just a measure, it might give you a new way to live."    For many I think, this is one of the most profound and beloved - if often unrecognized - graces of music.  To peer through the window, clouded and cracked though it may be, into another human being's infinitely complex experience of life, as expressed through rhythm and melody.  To touch it at the edges, or dive deeply and revel in it, or simply spend a day next to it, letting its spirit flow through us - yet never fully experiencing it as its creator did.  Given genuine devotion to the music, this is an almost spiritual or transcendant bridge: at one human and something more - at once desperately inviting and never truly crossable.  As a devotee of Hiss Golden Messenger's music in particular, I (an I would guess many others) am intimately familiar with this beautiful, ineffable phenomenon.

One of the Om Records founding artists returns! Old Stone Bridge brings together the original Eighty Mile Beach duo of Beth Custer (vocals, contrabass clarinet, acoustic piano) and Christian Jones (electronics, piano, drums) and sounds like a cross hybrid between Portishead & Tom Waits. Original to the maximum, it’s a refreshing return to the roots of Om and a welcome home to one of their legends.

Step across that old stone bridge

Lyrics:

Old Stone Bridge ©Eighty Mile Beach 2021
Beth Custer: voice, words, contrabass clarinet, acoustic piano 
Christian Jones: electronics, piano, drums

Old Stone Bridge 
You are my 
Everything
My love, my mast 
My joy, my baby boy
I skip across the river’s edge 
From your high tower
Won’t you reign down on me 
With all your mighty power
Step across that old stone bridge 
Down to me
‘Never to wait’ you always said 
With such marvelous glee
I always pictured us
Side by side
Run down to the waters edge 
By and by
You are my 
Everything
My love, my mast 
My joy, my baby boy

More:
https://www.om-records.com/eighty-mile-beach
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Gmy4jhBUqlIGHkySJ9OsB?si=OBFGOxNKQWeEDNMtcRZ20A&dl_branch=1
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/eighty-mile-beach/2859183

Old Stone Bridge

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My friend Philip Nangle told me years ago about the technique of kutsinera where two mbira players interlock playing the same part but one beat apart, where the first beat of the second player's part sits in between the first and second notes of the first player's part. 

Which is essentially a delay. 

So here's a simple variation we played in class today, treated with a little random delay.

Score for this is on patreon https://www.patreon.com/derekgripper

Electric Kutsinera 1

'Invisible Forces', out now on Ahead Of Our Time: https://jamesheather.lnk.to/invisibleSo

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Invisible Forces

Dick Slessig Combo, ”Rock Your Baby” ++ Don Fardon, “I’m Alive” ++ Lync, “Two Feet in Front” ++ Don Cherry, “Brown Rice” ++ George Anne Muldrow, “Wind” ++ The Revolutionaries, “Jah Creation Dub” ++ Alice Coltrane, “Turiya & Ramakrishna” ++ Miles Davis, “He Loved Him Madly” ++ Natural Information Society, “Maroon Dune” ++ Sylford Walker, “Chant Down Babylon” ++ Frederic McQueen,” Harcourt Got Drowned” ++ The Everly Brothers, “Lord of the Manor”

A Place Where No One Can Find Me, Episode One: Taneeah, or That Haunted California Feeling

Hiss Golden Messenger

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