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Lonnie Gordon Collaboration
Open More info about Lonnie Gordon here This song began with me becoming unemployed and finding time to sit in the Rookery, some beautiful flower gardens on Streatham Common. I found a bench which I came to call "The Listening Bench", because I suddenly found myself with time to listen. It was the sound of the gentle breeze through the silver birches which began the inspiration, such a distinctive sound, which I seemed to be hearing for the first time, with ears that surely hadn't heard before, as these sounds were all around me but had been silent until that moment. That moment was the start of a change, I didn't know it at the time, but that's when the magic really began and providence replaced coincidence. I tried to represent the sound of the breeze in those silver birches in the opening sounds of this track. This song takes me again to the listening bench and reminds me how to just take pleasure from being in the moment. I wish others would remember too. A couple of weeks later Lonnie Gordon moved in to our house, through circumstances outside of my life, a legend from my musical inspirations for so many years, yet Life provided the reasons for our paths to cross. Some call it fate, Lonnie was there for other reasons, Life had seemingly dealt me some of the worst cards to lead me to be in that house, it felt like I'd arrived there through some of the worst possible times of my life. Without those hard times I would have not found sanctuary in my friend's house. Providence had put me in the right place at the right time, and now there are no hard times, just changes and growth. WIthout the difficult path which bought me there I would still encounter hard times. Lonnie and I just clicked straight away, like we'd always known each other. Here was this incredible person with such a rich experience who was looking for reasons in her life too. We had such deep, beautiful and inspired conversations in the kitchen, and one sunny day I took her to the Listening Bench, and we had a very special conversation. This song is that conversation. It was recorded on my modest equipment in my bedroom, using a microphone which cost just £4.99, and the unavoidable urge to allow something beautiful to form itself. This song is intended as a Life Tool, one I use regularly to return and refocus in the times when I begin to forget, and we hope others are able to use it too. It's hard to count our blessings if we forget how to notice them. Open feels like it wrote itself, I can't remember writing, just listening, listening to the feeling and listening to Lonnie's life. if it means something to you then it's for you, we just helped it into the world. Lonnie Gordon is a very special person. Thank you Lonnie for being Open. In all the years, in all the things, in all the creativity and completions, in all the inspirations, this is the only one which means it all, the one I hope lives on.
Lyrics No one can see me I'll let it rain on me I'm patiently painting
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