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UT |
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14-Jul-2003-17:26:22 |
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Sunset I |
Hoping to start a thread appreciating the work of those amazing musicians collectively known as Zazen:
The first song that really, totally, completely knocked my socks off by Zazen was Sunset I, the fifth track on the original "Occult Dancer" album. I first heard it on my way *back* from a desert trip, and that experience will stay with me until the day I die, and almost certainly, given the inevitability of reincarnation, much longer.
It starts slowly, questingly, the keyboard and bass searching for a theme with which to celebrate the ending of the day and the beginning of night, starlit night, occult night, night full of promise. After a few bars of exploration, the bass takes the lead, marching before us at the head of a single-file column of seekers, in the gorge tonight for nothing less, or more, than the Pursuit Of Ecstasy. Then Bodhi's guitar comes in, and adds a new element. We are not all marching along in single file in search of something new, we are walking towards that which we know better than anything we have ever experienced in this particular lifetime, the clarity of Starlight In The Desert, the ecstasy of The Dance Itself. And then Bodhi lessens the pressure, and gives us a few bars to just enjoy The Walk Itself, without any thought of where it leads, of what awaits us at the end of the gorge. And then the three musicians -- four, if you think that way -- start to throw some additional drama into the walk, start to build up a network of guitar licks and keyboard riffs and bass lines that blend and blend and dance and dance and dance until, at just the right moment, The Moment That Could Be No Other, the three musicians become one in the same alchemic transmutation that often overcame the Grateful Dead and the night and the sand and the walk are transformed into a melange of guitar and keyboard and bass, separate but as one, their energy redoubled, their souls separate but their focus one, dancing us all into the desert night and into the infinity of it all, hopefully never to return. I certainly never have.
My deepest bow, and my deepest thanks, to all four musicians involved.
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