Hartmut Geerken/ John Tchicai/ Don Moye

Hartmut Geerken, piano, prepared piano, gongs, peking opera gongs, chinkas, boochals, angklung,whistles, bells baloons, water basin, afghan monley drums, dwarmandal, claves, woodblocks, temple blocks, maracas, rattles, mokattam pot rattles, agogo, zummarah, wether bell, elephant bell, castanets, shortwave radios, Tibetan horn, singing tube, ooting, vcl
John Tchicai, tenorsax, flute, percussion, hand clapping, ooting, vcl
Don Moye, drums, bongos, conga, talking drum, saka, bird calls, conche bells, ooting, vcl

recorded 1985 on Praxis, reissued 1999 on Golden Years nr.4

 

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"There is no space without time, and no time without space. But when the ego absorbs the universal- where is time, where is space?"
At the time that we, Geerken-Tchicai-Moye, were touring Africa and Greece, we didn't know much about the harmful effects of the seven deadly sins: anger, envy, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, and pride. The repercussions came later and we soon realized that we needed a change of heart in order to turn our lives around, and since then we have remained true to our profession.

As long as we live, we keep producing our evidences that man is no intellect alone. We keep insisting that our products in the greater part stem from the unfathomable stuff of the soul, and that they aren't brainy concoctions of an ego that alternates bet ween different roles it think it must play.

So, stop creating artificial appetites. Listen, and then let your ego become absorbed in the universal.