Sadly, Townsend have taken nine days so far to successfully NOT deliver my copy of this...
Tonight my journey takes me instead through Drift Music as a kind of 'warm up', and the splendour that is A Delicate Romance
It's only taken me five years to learn how to listen to this remarkable album...
There are stone steps leading into the pool, down which a woman glides. Without breaking the surface she descends beneath the water. Dart and flicker. Shimmer and flash.
Rain is gently falling, but the fish have yet to notice. Notes unbroken hang like heavy curtains. They hold the key to it all in their austere presence. Like pillars and colonnades, holding up some kind of massive drama.
An insect moves, across the surface. Underwater, the blurred outline of golden fish drift like giant cars.
There is some light on the surface of the water, as if it were spilled there.
After All this Time is another amazing piece of music.
I know what I mean now about John having enough releases in progress to keep us going five years. I feel I could listen to this for the next six months and get more out of it every time.
Expect a review of My Lost City sometime in 2014... :rolleyes:
[/b]
