Alan HillJun 18Dedicated to You, That Can No Longer Listenfor Keith Tippett Mutton chop warrior, Pianist Bristolian brother to the note breaker of the complacent shake of the 12-bar boogie all imitation. Mild mannered shuffler in old tweed, beyond fashion, compromise or clique, old boy connection. Master of the whip of sound conjurer of unknown shape, combination seeder of the invisible republic of love colony of the inner ear, the people’s future music. Nothing written, staged, each moment uniquein otherness, humility of being to lay himself at the foot of a beauty, a gateway in fingers moving beyond sight last year’s footwear pressed though the pedals onto a pathway through the garden of ourselves out, into August air.
Dedicated to You, That Can No Longer Listen
for Keith Tippett
Mutton chop warrior, Pianist
Bristolian brother to the note
breaker
of the complacent shake of the 12-bar boogie
all imitation.
Mild mannered shuffler in old tweed,
beyond fashion, compromise
or clique, old boy connection.
Master of the whip of sound
conjurer of unknown shape, combination
seeder of the invisible republic of love
colony of the inner ear, the people’s future music.
Nothing written, staged, each moment unique
in otherness, humility of being
to lay himself at the foot of a beauty,
a gateway in
fingers moving beyond sight
last year’s footwear pressed though the pedals
onto a pathway through the garden of ourselves
out, into August air.