George Wallace - MUSIC OF EARTH & SPACE

The music of ‘Remember’ laces the motifs of the track which follows (‘Forget to Remember’) together in a quiet, contemplative prologue for solo piano, with an etheric wash of pensive chords behind it. Drifting out of this is a kind of dream sequence, where appears the sound of waves crashing on some faraway seashore, soon followed by the haunting, echoed siren-voices of the dream itself. Now being some distance from ‘topside reality’, we are invited to lose the Self, to let it go - such that we might re-discover it. We forget what is remembered, only to realize that we’ve actually remembered to forget. The cycle of dissolution and re-forming of awareness of the Self is now set in motion, repeating, over and over, back and forth, like the rhythms within the dream that is life itself.

Forget to Remember is a rambling, philosophical musing to finish the set. With the lyrical wordplay and references to hidden dichotomy and paradox threaded through the human experience, it’s a wonder we can make any sense of it at all. Is it that we forget to remember, or that we remember to forget? And for that matter, what IS it we really need to remember…to remember, or remember to forget? Does it really matter anyway? What’s the point?

DO remember that you are as you dream, you take what you give, and you’re loved as you love…