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Dylan Howe -Subterraneans

Subterraneans How does art hit you in the solar plexus and immediately become part of your musical life a friend forever.   When it offers some thing you have always wanted to hear that you had a latent ambition for and it offers it with a mixture of intelligence, knowing musical authority and most important of all it communicates to you emotionally The first piece opens with a great atmospheric chord (the opening chord of CTTE me thinks) and then panther like a sexy lugubrious double bass figure stalks the music urging all the other music to flirt with the motif.   If you think of all those jazz chanteuse offering deep smoky voices this is the instrumental equivalent. Dylan is fantastically sympathetic through out. It is the anthesis of prog rock doodling. Weeping Wall starts off sounding like a rehearsal and then gets all formal with vibes playing the melody and great “random piano playing”.   The tune emerges with another late night sophisticated feel and develops a