“Three Of A Perfect Pair“

It’s worth getting hold of the magazine—it’s a long and substantial cover story. I’m faced with the small problem of deciding which will be, in retrospect, my album of the year, “Luminal” by Eno/Wolfe or ‘Close’ by Steve Tibbetts? The solution: I’ll simply declare both to be „my burners of 2025”—clever, right? More difficult is the finale of my Klanghorizonte on September 25: will a brand new piece from “Liminal” come into play at the very end, or the “jubilant” milestone “Another Green World” turning 50. Both one after the other will be difficult; the tight schedule hardly allows it. The old saying of filmmakers in the ‘cut’: “kill your darlings.” My selected songs from the impressive works of Lucrecia Dalt and Jeff Tweedy have already been dropped. Blame it on Jan Bang‘s „After The Wildfire“, Steve‘s storytelling – and the flow factor!

michael e