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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

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

[Andy:] oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I expect you so soon.
Let me...give me a to get things set up here.

no problem.

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

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

[Andy:] well. Alright. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, get started.
Uh...sorry my notes are...you a little scattered here...
uh...you'll to forgive me.

mmhmm.

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

right.

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

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title thing.

yeah.

[Andy:] uhmm see...uh...and the atom on the cover that's pretty

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was all that great in science and.
And math 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 know...is that...it's like with the cover...
is that a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it for something or like, or is it...

well...

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

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

mmhmm.

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

ok.

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

[Andy:] right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not 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 we have you know?
It us carry the idea.

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

uhmm. I don't...

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

[David:] we'll have to and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it does

no. It swells.

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

uhmm. I gue...I mean I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't think you should read too much into any of you know
It's...I the lark ascending was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn who died in 1958,
and uh, the work with this calm set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so then the violin as the lark and it...
it starts with this series of ascending and repeated and this...
these then elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English George Meredith
who died in 1909 and the composer included a portion of 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 this it says uh...

"He rises and to round,

He drops the chain of sound,

Of links without a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

'Tis of earth that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the which overflows

To us with him as he goes.

Till lost on his aerial

In light, and then the sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

[David:] I know.

sorry. I think i've got the wrong page. Uhmm.
The you gave me says something different. It says, "you are."

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

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

yeah.

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

right.

[Andy:] ...making a point that art 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. Hold on. I mean...it...it says so here.

[David:] yeah. Uhmm. But the ground at my feet.

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

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

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

[David:] we're walking 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,
when their feet leave the ground, for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And when we rise, and we rise,
and when we notice the sky has been around us all along.
We have walking into it. It has been this constant collision.
and depravity.
And we rise and we rise and we and we rise and we rise
and we and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we rise and we and we rise and we rise...