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 | The Fan and the Bellows * Original byDavid Bowie |
Comments by Mark Burgess
Comments by StrangE TimeS
Did you know that according to modern thinking in the field of quantum physics, everything that has ever happened, everything that is happening, and everything that will happen from this point on, is in fact happening in the same cosmic instant? No, neither did I, and it makes you think doesn't it? Or perhaps not. The thing is, It supports quite a few notions that I'd been arriving at for some time, and I'm not going to mention any of them, save one, the notion of the infinite moment. The dimension of space time, like all dimensions in the physical realm, is subject to the laws of gravity. We can see the effects of passing time obviously, one only has to observe the shifting seasons or the wrinkles under one's eyes, but the natural processes in motion here can actually be affected upon by tinkering around with physics, as anyone even vaguely familiar with Einstein will tell you.
What bearing this has on consciousness and its survival of physical death is another matter and one which I don't have time to go into right now. My tea's ready. But it struck me how music is a metaphor for capturing the infinite moment, how music seems to capture time as perfectly as any quantum event, metaphorically speaking. Of course, like when dealing with one's perception of reality in order to capture the kind of infinite moments we would wish to spend infinity in, one has to make the emotional connection.
I know for a fact that a number of people have already connected with the material presented here, and that when they hear these moments expressed once more in a fresh, original way, by the very souls that created these expressions in the first place, they'll connect again.
Perhaps you will too. It worked for me kiddo..
Mark Burgess
Four O'clock in the afternoon.
Where the heart is.
A second part for the acoustic sessions which gave the second birth of The Chameleons in 2000. Songs from all their studio albums are revisited, but this time John Lever has joined the rest of the band and now the versions are more complex and less naked than in Strip. We highlight the vocals arregements of the final parts of Tears and Intrigue In Tangiers. It is the latter, perhaps with The Fan and The Bellows, the song which rises with more beauty. The songs which have suffered less changes are the ones from Why Call It Anything: All Around and Miracles and Wonders, because they were acoustic enough on their original versions.
A cover from a song from David Bowie closes the album, a cover which fits good enough with the rest of the tunes and which shows their musical influences (let´s remember they have only covered on their studio albums a song from The Beatles and two from David Bowie).
The front cover, based on obscured colours, with question marks flying in different directions, gives an idea of the uncertainty this little big band from Middleton have always been in, and seems to tell us the new chapter which was opened with Strip has been closed with this acoustic sessions, and now the band is in a cross-road.
This Never Ending Now is not one of their must-have albums, but it shows the most melodic character of the band, through some of their classics, presented in such a way that seem brand new tunes.
