HERGEST RIDGE

1 'Hergest Ridge, Part One' for the beginning of a bucolic trip where everything is out of the ordinary, already the fact that I find a K7 in a nursery during my studies, but where are we going? already lost with toddlers... go Plastic I liked what you were doing too, in short I was with the toddlers who brayed to be skinned by their darling mom started to cry out loud; good the K7 I insert it into the K7 radio, obvious will you tell me, and I press play, yes before you had to do all that; good immediate EFFECT (did EF find its stage name to put us to sleep with its post-rock I don't know, but yes I'm kidding but snub to one of our members on PP), immediate because the offspring are fall asleep straight away without any other treatment (like I rock them like chickens with their heads stuck behind their necks... thank you dad for teaching me that!) and calm comes in the crèche; well you will have understood why I am making an OMNI album of it, an incredible thing, a title where time does not stop but twirls around according to the notes, even better. We arrive around 5 minutes we leave on the psychedelic notes of PINK FLOYD and Atom Heart Mother', go a bit of 'Meddle', in short this psyche sound which smelled good of the English countryside, to believe that the poppy fields were much more infused by the ambient rain; to believe that the weather in the countryside makes it possible to feel that the goal in life is to listen to sounds, to integrate them and to make of them a sensitive ball that you take in a state of stress. 13 minutes and the bass suddenly brings you back on the right track, yes you haven't yet spoken of the famous bells, listen they are there, they calm you down, they rock you, they flood you with happiness; we would forget what instrument the dear Mike actually plays; 18 minutes and the celestial choirs arrive, a little piano oh there the choirs rise even higher and begin to wake up the toddlers, it cries, phew a spurt of bells (Tibetan or others we agree) and the toddlers lay in their beds all amazed, phew. The staff is of course flabbergasted by my qualities in taking care of infants and looks at me enviously of the kind that we are going to keep. 2 'Hergest Ridge, Part Two' begins with an agreed sound, emotionally contemplative lethargic spleen, it's simple; 6 minutes of musical wandering... which I had my superior listen to when I arrived late in the morning at the nursery, just to lose her in her watch and the time! Well we feel that it's going up, that the vibrations are going to drag us into a space; 7'40 and the facsimile of 'Tubular' arrives, softer, the guitar meowing, the keyboard notes giving way to the metronome, a biniou no finally maybe good it explodes as expected and we arrive halfway to the best moment of the album; a fury of warriors with arrows and bagpipes parading and who are going to hunt the york in the tundra, yes the English bucloic field has suddenly dissolved and the storm weighed down, but the insistent storm brings a guitar solo oh yes we get there anyway; we change the musical gear and we continue, all the instruments are outside, it feels like spring when the bells come out to find the sun, the birds to perfect their rebirth elsewhere, the cycle of Life. 14 minutes and Mike goes into the last gear, today I still believe him to be a musical madman; luckily I didn't put this face of K7 on my happy toddlers, I don't think I would have had the same effect; we land 'finally', the acoustic guitar takes its place, the bells, the sirens come back to graze in the fields of algae, the sun reappears, yes you weren't dreaming you are there wondering how you could have passed so much time to read, and you are already looking for a last Andalusian tune where you have put your K7 on with this dog on the cover? yes it was me who had put this music in the nursery where you were little, yes it was me who made you want to listen to it, yes you know it now.

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