R–e–s–o–n–a–n–c–e
Scores
Notes
Conversations
© Eric Thielemans
2022
Primal Scene: Gentse Feesten
One sweet Summer evening
Somewhere mid July
Probably 1998
In Gent
Centre of the city
Gentse Feesten
I play a small jazz gig with friends of the yoga centre
My Baba, yoga teacher/guru is attending
the concert
As always there is an excitement in the crowd of yogis and yoginis present
I remember wearing a sanyassin orange Nike cap
My guru likes it
Wants us to exchange our hats
I wear his white tropic thing
He wears (and afterwards keeps) mine
Small and sweet concert
Not the intense and passionate musical experience which I usually tend to go for
We play some jazz standards
There’s a singer
All nice and sweet
Maybe a bit boring actually
Somewhere mid concert
I get the little drum solo feature
I close my eyes
All of a sudden
I am in between the planets
Hanging out there
In that interstellar space
Coltrane used to mention
Or Sun Ra
And I know
This is REAL
Vertical connection
Baba with me
Seems to have no time attached to it
Only space
Meanwhile
The drum solo continues
And then I’m back
Ever since
A connection seems available
to which I can tap in any time when
I play music
As if a vertical cord
A line
To that interplanetary space