Album Notes

Miles Davis once suggested there would be no downbeats on planets without gravity.

Botticelli's angelic figures (the Dante drawings) float in space long before the physics of weightlessness were known.

GALAXY puts on display a different kind of music behavior, gracefully indifferent to normal musicial discourse, obeying its own set of rules proper to its goals. No chords and no time signatures here. The more extreme detachment is found in the earlier "Five Pieces" (Track 6) the beginning of our improvised musicial experiments.

The GALAXY pieces (picking up where we left off with "Synth Piece" in 1984) span the gap, keeping one foot on the ground, so to speak, making musical statements that suggest chords chords and rhythms (very thin ice) a duality from which the feeling of a half state between sleeping and dreaming seems to emerge. But nothing stays put for long, things dissolve and subside, rise and fall, change, as objects and images do in a dreamscape. Every transformation moves and morphs at different speeds along a continuously variable line of modulation and mediation. Improvising. The educated musical mind directing the musical instrument, Guitar, Keyboards, Effects. The Probe and the places explored, one and the same.

Ron Thomas