Kit Walker's Phase Space Live @ Alva's Showroom

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1417 W. Eighth Street
San Pedro, CA 90732
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The Kit Walker Phase Space

invites you to a Moment of Movement, at Alva's Showroom, September 26th 2009

The Kit Walker Phase Space brings together a dynamic new trio, where world jazz keyboardist Kit Walker brings guitarist Matthew Heulitt and drummer Frank Briggs into his world of sonic exploration and cyclic expansion. World rhythm combines with electronic texture to provide the context for Kit's fiery Hammond B3, Frank's virtuosic multi-layered groove, and Matthew's inventive tonal excursions, envisioned to bring listeners and dancers to a new territory, free and alive.

Kit Walker’s groundbreaking albums for Windham Hill Jazz and performances with Brazilian jazz legends Airto Moreira and Flora Purim are two accomplishments that have helped define him as an artist. He brings his mastery of Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizers, and exotic electronic textures to his compositions for Phase Space.
http://www.kitwalker.com

Matthew Heulitt has pushed the envelope for genre-defying music and is soon to release his new CD,"Room To Run". Appearing on Grammy award winning producer Narada Michael Walden's CD "Delightful" and playing with acclaimed funk drummer Zigaboo Modeliste's band for eight years are two highlights of his career.
http://www.myspace.com/mattheulitt

Frank Briggs’ musical diversity as a drummer and composer is revealed in his 2008 release of“China Ranch”, a collection of 10 original compositions that feature master musicians Mitch Forman, Frank Gambale and Jimmy Earl. Frank’s instructional book/DVD, "The Complete Modern Drum Set” is used and acclaimed by universities worldwide.

http://www.frankbriggs.com/

I have a new song at the top of my player, which features the wonderful Hungarian singer Kata Horvati, from the group Katan (see my top friends). It is a traditional Hungarian folk song that I produced and arranged. I hope you enjoy it...! and please check out Katan...an original and intriguing band from Budapest.

Anything is subject for a poem:
A catalog of boxing equipment, a collage of other poems,
Serpentine trail of incense, raised deer fur, old shoes pointed pigeon-toed,
Glass and steel cityscape, almond eyes of a saint, weeping of tiny flowers,
Sunlight on whitewashed walls, blue shadows of stooped women,
A sprung mousetrap, a trickle of blood in the gutter,
The homing swoop of a gull, chill whitecapped bay, scent of eucalyptus.
Green lawn of broken blades, clods of fat earth.
Anything is subject for a poem.

Even in sleep, write a poem.
While waking, write a poem.
While loving, write a poem.
Even voting, write a poem.
When angry, write a poem.
While dreaming, write a poem.

The sages say quite seriously that those who wish to know Tao better should cultivate the poet in themselves.

~ Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao - Daily Meditations

i recently became aware of a particular blog, that "reviews" music, in particular, "jazz/rock", and they have a "review" of an album i made years ago with guitarist Neal Schon, which i helped to produce, and co-wrote most of the music on the CD. It is a double CD called "Electric World". The person who runs the blog is called "crimhead". It would be great, except that he offers links where he "shares" the music as free downloads, which as far as i know, is illegal.

http://jazzrockz.blogspot.com/

i encourage you to visit that site, and let him know what you think.

below is my letter to "crimhead", concerning what he is doing there:


hello crimhead,

one more thing: it was just pointed out to me that you are "sharing" this music for free with people. i didn't get it at first. So generous of you to "share" so freely what belongs to others! Because in fact half of most of the tunes on that Neal Schon album belong to me. So you are freely "sharing" my property with others. Would you mind telling me why you feel justified in doing that?

Somehow it feels wrong to me. I spent many many hours, weeks, and months of life energy and time working on that project, not to mention all the work i put in before then, to even be able to get to the point where i could do that kind of thing. That included hours and hours and years of practicing my instrument, for no pay, paying for lessons, and then years of playing in bands, writing and recording music, learning computer skills, etc etc etc.... not to mention the countless life-choices and sacrifices that come up when you choose to do music as your life work. It is not an easy row to hoe, if you are truly dedicated to it. Ask any true musician, they will tell you the same thing.

If we have no respect from listeners and fans for the sanctity of our life work, then how do you expect to continue to have quality music to appreciate? And in fact, it is already taking its toll. There is a proliferation, like a fungus, of prefab, cut-and-paste, push-button "music", assaulting our senses, hearts, and souls these days, with an ever lowering "ante". Real musicians are being forced into needle-in-a-haystack status by the sheer volume of soulless crap that's being released by "everyman" these days. No one is making any money, and musicians are going the way of the dinosaur. And folks like you are just helping it along.

Although i appreciate that you want to help turn people on to our music, i just don't understand how you can rationalize giving it away for free, with not even the slightest thought of the people who created it, and the sacrifices they have made in their life to bring it to you.

I encourage you to post this message, and i hope it will open up a dialogue with the "users" of this site. If we, the musicians, share our music with you, what are you willing to share in return? It's a give and take kind of world here. We all need to cooperate these days, in a way where we all win. Right now most of the musicians i know are just barely making it. Even people you might think are doing well. CD sales have plummeted, and yes we are glad to see unscrupulous record companies lose their power, but don't forget that all that music you love would not be there without the musicians. It's like going into someone's garden and walking out with their vegetables. I'm sure you wouldn't approve of that if it happened to you.

so, crimhead, please don't be "crimehead". it's a little too close. How can we work this out?

peace

Kit Walker

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that's wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that's love.
Between these two my life turns.

--Nisargadatta Maharaj

from futurist and trends forecaster Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, NY:

"This could be the end of something really ignorant and stupid and dark. The end of a dark age! The end of the age of what I call Bottom-Line Fascism, the ruthless and dictatorial profit-only way of thinking that produces crap over quality in all the major institutions, dopiness and blob-thinking, the manipulations of an idiotic media and political establishment, the Cartoon News Networks, the Greta Van Susterens and the Hillary Clintons uttering the same pablum ad nauseum over and over. All the institutions are coming apart – government, corporations, media, education, health care. They present nothing less than a vacuum! Something has to fill it! The systems that are in place? Things can only get worse if they stay in place. But I'm an optimist. I'm gunning for something better to replace what we got." He pauses. "A renaissance! I'm gunning for a renaissance: an era where quality beats out the crap of quantity."

The doorway to Eternity is here and now. It is more here than here, and more now than now. It is in the heart. Let the heart be the main organ of perception. All the other senses have their root in the heart.

Beyond the external, nearer than the internal, is the eternal. Eternity is not an infinite length of time. It is beyond time altogether, and absolutely herenow nowhere. Here and now is not a little sliver of time between past and future, but rather an opening into the vast and spacious palace of the timeless eternal continuum.

Eternity is Infinity. Just as you will never reach infinity by counting numbers, you will never reach Eternity by any linear progression in time. It is already here, we are already there.

Walk as if you are balancing a vase on your head. Open the crown to the Infinite sky. Let Divine Lovelight pour down over and through you. Dissolution in This is the only solution.


Forget yourself in God.

Consider this...... Oil is the symbol for the sickness, the addiction of humanity, which is ego. Oil is energy derived solely from the past, from the condensed remains of life from millions of years ago, extracted from the depths of the Earth at great effort and expense. And when it is burned as fuel it pollutes the environment.

Ego, the false belief in separate self, is nothing but a set of knee-jerk reactions ingrained from the past, embedded in the human psyche over millions of years, bound in contraction, like a cramp. It is exhausting to maintain. And it pollutes the psychic environment.

All the wars are fought over energy, and now with the war in the "holy land", oil is the number one objective.
War is the number one activity of ego, and competition, and separation are its fuel.

And meanwhile all that fighting over oil is going on there in the desert, with the Sun blasting down on everyone, enough energy for everyone, for virtually ever. How absurd! And no one even notices the joke of it.

So we have ego (oil), dark, black, from deep underground, and then we have the Sun, which is the manifest reflection in this realm of the Invisible Sun, the Radiance of Conscious Light Itself, which is eternal, and omnipresent, available to all. But how many actually even notice It? We are too embroiled in the separate self battles for survival and control to ever look beyond the limitation of our precious little points of view.

Conscious Light is the real Solar Power. It is free, non polluting, Eternal. When humanity WAKES UP and realizes the Sun of the Eternal Self, then we will solve the so-called "energy crisis".

I have made the journey into Nothing.
I have lit the lamp that
Needs no oil.

I have cried great streams
Of emerald crystals
On my scarred knees, begging love

To never again let me hear from
Any world

The sound of my own name,
Even from the voice of divine thought

Or see that pen you gave me, God,
In the sun's or sky's skillful hand
Writing
Anything other than the word-
One.

I have made the journey into Nothing.
I have become the flame that needs
No fuel.

Beloved,
Now what need is there to ever
Call for Hafiz?

For if you did,
I would just step out
of YOU.

-Hafiz-

This is the most elegant solution to the "oil crisis"......(oil=ego)

one of my favorites
from one of the greatest sages ever, Lao Tzu...
a poignant reflection on the enlightened condition:

"All men are so shining-bright
as if they were going to the great sacrificial feast
Only I am reluctant, I have not yet been given a sign:
like an infant, yet unable to laugh;
unquiet, roving as if I had no home.
All men have abundance,
Only I am as if forgotten.
I have the heart of a fool: so confused, so dark...
as if locked into myself...
All men have their purpose,
only I am futile like a beggar...
But I consider it worthy to seek nourishment from the Mother."

Lao Tzu,
Tao Te Ching