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Steve Coleman And Five Elements
Weaving Symbolics

The music on this CD is part of the Ritual of Motion that we have been participating in for some time now.  This music atttempts to answer the question ‘Why’.  Maybe ‘answer’ is not the correct word, ‘investigate’ may be a better term.

The entrance into various Rites of Passage and Initiation are also a part of this investigation of ‘Why’.  The symbolism of Weaving and Circles refers both to style of the music, with its interlaced rhythmic, and sonance cyclic structures, and to the continuous creation of the Cycle of Life is represented by the constant interplay of the warp (yarn arranged lengthways on a loom) and weft (yarn woven across the warp yarn) repectively symbolic of the yang and yin, binding and unbinding, male and female forces.  Much of the music is symbolic of this type of thinking.

There is no such thing as ‘understanding’ this kind of musical symbolism, there is nothing here deeper than yourself.  Our hope is that this music helps to carry you inside yourself.

Much of the music was recorded in Brazil in collaboration with the percussion group ‘Kontra’ who have toured serveral times with Steve Coleman and Five Elements.  This group is by no means typical of what is found in Brazil, their rhythms trancend sterotype.

The addition of the DVD portion is to give the listener a visual perspective of the people who have helped in performing this music, along with some small insight of our approach.  It is our hope that this music speaks to you in some form.

Peace,

Steve Coleman

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