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about

Ales de Grassi and Hamid Drake and I form the GALLOP Trio. We recorded in June 2018 six tracks from a manuscript of mine titled Make Magic GO: 1956-2018 in California, Bellingham, Haiti and Cuba. We recorded at Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio in New Orleans after completing soundtracks for Melissa Gregory Rue;s two documentary films, "Esperanza's Turn" and "Live Out Loud!"

lyrics

'Motor Land'
Roads were new. Cars were new.
Roads were bigger every year--
Interstates cutting and climbing
Through Sierra,
The Pacific, Gas and Electric
Company's Projects of Progress
Bringing more power to the Golden State,
LIFE magazine's
Full-page color spreads said.
Cars' tail-fins grew bigger too.

We liked to take
"Whimsical" road-trips.
We liked day-long drives
That stopped and started like Celtic wanders.
We checked but did not follow Motor Land.
Our Hydramatic Pontiac

Might dip into a glen
Of leaves more spangling than Technicolor.
Or the Central Valley
Might explode in farmland's brilliant patches
Round a sudden turn.
Or Rod might have to kill a rattlesnake
On a mountain road's shoulder
With well-thrown rock and then tree-limb.

Whatever, something new and private
Would be out there for us to savor.

credits

from The Time We Have (Meld #1​)​, eight of 13 tracks, track released October 27, 2020
Alex de Grassi guitar
Hamid Drake drums-set
Don Paul voice

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