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Steve Lacy Octet Vespers
This jazz cd contains 7 tracks and runs 51min 7sec.
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1. Steve Lacy Octet - Multidimensional (06:59)
   -- to Miles Davis\nMultidimensional\n\nThe world is multidimensional\nand that gives us headaches.\nWe want it to be monochrome\nso it can be clear.\nWe want it to be uniform\nso it can be true.\nWe want it to be limited\nso we can grasp it, make it stay.
2. Steve Lacy Octet - If We Come Close (08:25)
   -- to Corrado Costa\nUnconsummated\n\nIf we come close\nenough to meet\nother beings\nfrom other worlds --\nas cloase as people\ncome to people\non our planet -- then\nwe'll only come to pass ourselves.
3. Steve Lacy Octet - Grass (09:24)
   -- to John Carter\n\nI have no fear of eing\ntrodden down, like grass.\nThe trampled ground is likeliest\nto make a path.
4. Steve Lacy Octet - Wait For Tomorrow (04:35)
   -- to Keith Haring\nUrgency\n\nYou wait for tomorrow,\nfor still, for otherwise, for may,\nYou wait for yourself.\n\nThe blade of grass doesn't wait\nfor the stone to be gone.\nIt pushes in the crack.\n\nAnd then to what has grown\nso urgently alive\nthe
5. Steve Lacy Octet - Across (05:58)
   -- to Charles Mingus\nAcross\n\nFrom wing to wing\nspread out\na bird can mark\nthe whole horizon's span.\n\nFrom arm to arm\nnailed down\nthe universe is measured\nby a man.
6. Steve Lacy Octet - I Do Not Believe (09:26)
   -- to Stan Getz\nI do not believe\nin my disbelief\n\nthat my life was time awake\nbetween two dreams\n\nthat I'll return to the air\nthe breath I took from air\n\nthat I'll grasp the moment of death\nwhen my whole life was a moment
7. Steve Lacy Octet - Vespers (06:15)
   -- to Arshile Gorky\nVespers\n\nThank you, day, for being gone.\nAnd thank you, gift, for being for me.\nAnd for the shade of thorn above,\nits work of wood and innocence of leaf,\nfor blue in all its shapes and shadows,\ncloud of thunder, routed into rai