"Riding the Moment" is many times greater than the short clips posted at Amazon. Each composition takes me on seemingly endless journeys. One of the compositions is titled, "Down the Rabbit Hole," a title that very much reflects, in part, the journey I was taken on. This great work touches the very razors edge of the universe we call music.
Ordinarily I feel it's fairly easy to share my feelings about new compositions with friends, but this new masterpiece has me stumped for words. The closest I can come to explaining what it is like listening to "Riding the Moment" is that all the compositions are like dreams. A dream is real when you are in it, but gone when you're not, it can't be repeated, and can't fully be remembered. And a dream is never the same twice. The essence changes. Every time I listen again to one of the titles, my memory of the last time is gone, and the piece is new. Each new listening session is a reflection of my mind now, not then. The music enables self reflection at the deepest level.
All of the compositions are filled with new colors that I've never seen, timeless yet in time, free from rules or preconceived ideas, yet Zeitlin and Marsh are one. It is beyond my imagination that these two great musicians recorded the music with no scripts, no rehearsal, no preconceived notes, melodies, chords, rhythms or even a platform. It's pure musical one-on-one, in the moment, conversation between two genius musicians. And just as amazing is the fact that each piece is completely improvised with almost no overdubs - see album liner notes. It is indeed two musicians that sound bigger then most movie sound tracks and fuller than a stage filled with musicians. It's simply mind boggling how a masterpiece like "Riding the Moment," could have ever been created.
Even though I have listened many times, the music is so unattached and so fluid, it never sounds the same twice. The compositions become my thoughts, my reflections. It's truly a masterpiece for meditations. Each piece is in no way a tune or a song, they are dreams...places where one has never gone...visions... a little bit of Never Never Land, the Void and beyond. There is so much depth to the compositions that one is literally pulled into a state of "Lost Mind." I didn't come back or know I was even there, where ever I was, until the given piece was over...an amazing experience.
Much thanks to Denny Zeitlin and George Marsh for creating such wonderful and fresh new music.
Dane Petersen