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Diminished Fifths 1
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Diminished Fifths 2
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Diminished Fifths 3
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Diminished Fifths 4
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Diminished Fifths 5
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Sudden thrusting, like velvet over rusted iron, announces a dance on the theme, in the manner of something half-heard through the distorted speakers of an outdoor disco tech in the distant countryside of the Emilia Romagna. A bass variation introduces an orchestral arrangement of a variation of the theme, which dissolves away in a faint flutter of off beat drumbeats, back to the dance pattern.
The dance pattern shifts to the fixture on B and F, and different sounds pop in to spell out some simple triplets. Behind it all, a whistling wind unwinds, and bursts of weather fluff pop and scatter. In a lonely place, you contemplate the infinite, waiting for the return of the simple triplet. It swings down like a lead feather, gifts another triplet, then fluffs us all up again. A swirling urgency comes sweeping in, vacillating on a nice frequency.
The crowded bustle of the bumpkin crowd comes bubbling in, while a variation stretches overhead in 100 mile banks of cirrus clouds, the crowd struggles up into the foreground, until the horns blow in solemn sustain.
A brisk slapper of a whiskbroom sound comes cleaning up the mess, and after a moment of sonorous triumph, surrenders again to another version of the crowd, farther, more populous, while the urgent variations of a swinging pattern become gradually overwhelmed by the chord of an organ, before the crowd goes goes drunk and woozy, then hysterically ramps up to a majestic, solemn ending.
Centuries of industrial progress light the dawn sky with distant hell fires born of metal smelting, electrical welding, and smoothly meshing machines. The future never seemed brighter as money was laid aside, eventualities prepared for, and the seething chaos just outside the door remained a distant impression. Mom plays that old time religion with all the wrong notes, and ends the piece.
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The Change Music Variety Show St Louis, Missouri
Performing and recording Change Music in Saint Louis since 1977.
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