The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.