Steve Lawson and Theo Travis: For the Love of Open Spaces

I have to make a correction to the story I told in connection with the the first Steve Lawson CD to feature on Music Arcades. It turns out that Steve gave me not two, but three CDs on our first meeting, and For the Love of Open Spaces was one of the three. (Also a tardy update from last time I mentioned Steve: his son was born two days after that post.)

This is one of Steve's instrumental duos as described in his recent review of the last decade of his career. And here's a video of Steve and Theo playing live, as described here.

Steve says his music is "the soundtrack to the day you wish you'd had," so as I listened I tried to imagine the day that would have this backing. I don't think it involved fighting through the snow to get into and out of Central London, not calming a disturbed Boy whose bedroom is either too hot or too cold on account of the rubbish design of our central heating. A bit of meditation (and that's not a new age cliché to describe the music; I actually did some this morning, for a change), a little sitting by the river, followed by a stroll perhaps (didn't do that). No great drama or surprise. Calm rather than exuberant.

Lovely, the shortest track on the album, sounds a bit like Jan Garbarek playing with Eberhard Weber — or a bit like I think they sound, not being an expert. Elsewhere it might sound like Theo Travis's other duo with Robert Fripp, but again I only have my imagination to go on.

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Comments

[Brian]

Enjoying this now.
"The soundtrack to the day you wished you'd had." That's quite interesting, isn't it.
I must confess I had a couple glasses of wine the other night, not the time to shoot out messages to people when it's blatantly obvious that I'm not reading all the text.
:)

[Brian]

That was right down my street. I meditated on the day I had. Bed now.
Oíche mhaith from here :)
[E ha wah]
Brian