Original image by There Stands the Glass.
What’s on my mind? I’m little different than many of my friends and neighbors. The impeachment hearing and bitterly cold weather recently aggravated the surreal purgatory accompanying the draining wait for inoculation shots.
But what’s in my mind? The French pianist Benoît Delbecq captures my melancholy disposition on his new album The Weight of Light. In what feels like a magic trick of telepathic synchronicity, Delbecq’s recital mirrors my agitated sense of impatience and hope.
Delbecq’s meditative approach to prepared piano also elucidates the mysteries of the sacred texts I study each day. The Weight of Light could be characterized as jazz, but it sounds more like music John Cage might have composed for use in Egyptian ceremonial rites three thousand years ago.