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Every Other Now

Hillai Govreen

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:42:00
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Tracks

01. Abarxas 02. Lost and Found 03. The Day Of 04. The Day After 05. Downhill 06. Something Short 07. This Nearly Was Mine 08. Ill Wind 09. Smoke

Personnel

Album Description

Something in my heart leapt, the first time I heard this music performed live. I was willing to respond to the new sound right away. I noticed others recognized that “this is new”. They sat on the edge of their seats, all keen on staying with it, giddy with anticipation that something great is about to go down. Listening, you catch a hint, a foreshadow from some “wild notes.” You hear someone say “oh shit, look out now.” Then the atmosphere on stage gets heavy, as someone begins to “stretch.” A thread- bare existence, often unavoidable, often deemed the “artist way” lends uncertainty to life. I, myself, am most certainly uncertain. It’s common ground for many of us. Uncertainty brings doubts and emotions into the foreground, where, it may become “grist for the mill.” The starving artist archetype is our best emotional check on modern works- “keeping it real”, as they say. I want to feel the “real” when I listen to music. Lacking soul and spontaneity, being precise and perfectly rational, all the time, is simply “Square.” The music presented here is quite “real.” It is streetwise and intuitive. Its imagery is fashioned by bare passion and powerful imagination. To musicians, playing standards, though challenging, may become not “real.” An original song is like your own child. Interpreting standards is like someone else's kids. You may play with someone else's kids, but your own, you teach. Your own is an extension of who you are, an expression of your philosophy. “A lot is lost for the sake of originality” is the most common criticism. But, what if, nothing is lost? What if, honest research was conducted, like “burnin’ the midnight oil”, “paying all your dues”, well then, I say, something special is about to happen, so, “get ready”, “hold on to your hats”, cause “here it comes” - Mitch Borden -

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