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hello.

[David:] yeah, is there?

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is David Crowder calling for the interview that was scheduled

oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I didn't expect you so soon.
Let me...give me a second to get set up here.

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. Made a few changes here
and my typical setup is kinda, you know, technology's a right?

[David:] uh...well...we'll have to and see I guess.

well. Alright. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, let's get started.
Uh...sorry my notes are...you a little scattered here...
uh...you'll have to me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I really don't know about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but got some friends that are big fans and um...

right.

[Andy:] but...uh...anyway...um...alright. Well. Ok. So we go.
Um...so your new CD is a collision, or...um...3 + 4 = 7 that's..
interesting. You know the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole double thing.

yeah.

[Andy:] uhmm lets see...uh...and the atom on the cover pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all great in science and.
And wasn't really my...my specialty...which is...which is I guess,
you know, why I'm a now. But uh...

mmhmm.

...anyway um...

ok.

[Andy:] ok. So uh...it...I don't know...is that...it's like the cover...
is that a or...uh...I mean is it metaphorical for something or like, or is it...

well...

[Andy:] ...just or...

...nah. Well I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, it's not really...I mean a symbol.
You see that and you atom.
It electrons moving in elliptical paths around a nucleus and all...we know...

mmhmm.

[David:] ...that's...that's not how an atom works. Or...or looks even, for matter...

ok.

[David:] ...and so....and so that's why it was for the cover, you know...

right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not really sure I see the connection. But...

[David:] ...well...and what we mean to say is that the elements of are inadequate,
much like the atom depiction. But this is what we you know?
It helps us the idea.

mmhmm. Mmhmm. Uhmm. Ok. Uh.
Tell...ok...what's the deal with little songs between the real...you know, the real songs?
Like are they significant? Uhmm...is there like a theme of the
Or are they creating space? what's...going on there?

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you know I hear this really spectacular ending to...
to the record is true?

[David:] have to wait and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it well?

no. It swells.

oh. Right. It swells. Uhmm. Ok. Well.
And so the end starts with this...this piece called "the ascending."
Uhmm now is...what is the lark?
Is that...is that also a metaphor for

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I think...
I don't think you should read too into any of this you know
It's...I mean the ascending was written...
it was a piece by Vaughn Williams who died in 1958,
and uh, the work opens with this calm set of chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so then the enters as the lark and it...
it starts with this series of ascending and intervals and this...
these nimble then arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English poet Meredith
who in 1909 and the composer included a portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...

wait uh...

[David:] ...of the published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

[Andy:] ...why do you mentioning...

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year they

[David:] ...well it went...and it went like it says uh...

"He rises and to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

'Tis of earth that he instills,

And ever up and up,

Our valley is his cup

And he the wine overflows

To us with him as he goes.

Till on his aerial rings

In light, and then the sings."

huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

[David:] I know.

[Andy:] sorry. I think i've got the page. Uhmm.
The script you gave me says different. It says, "you are."

yeah but I don't...
I don't feel like the lark much of the time and there are other larks for me you know?

[Andy:] a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...

yeah.

[Andy:] ...in the script I you're...

right.

[Andy:] ...making a point art does this...

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it rises on wing from earth to the heavens...

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the rest of us with it. That as the rises so do we."

right. I'm unsure.

[Andy:] but. Uh. on. I mean...it...it says so right here.

yeah. Uhmm. But the ground pulls at my feet.

[Andy:] hold...hold on just a second. Uh but I mean what about the 7?

[David:] did you ever that the sky is all the way to the ground?

wait. Hold on. What?

[David:] walking around in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and there is ground and we're in between.
is where we live.
And sometimes some of us wing and when they do,
their feet leave the ground, even for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And we rise, and when we rise,
and we notice that the sky has been around us all along.
We have been into it. It has been this constant collision.
and depravity.
And we and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise and we
and we and we rise and we rise and we rise...