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  Date / Time: 5/15/2009 8:17 PM UTC

  Will Calhoun (Charnette Moffet Trio)
  

  OMG!!! I have to pinch myself, hard, sometimes even I cannot believe these musical interludes in my life and that they are so AMAZING! The show last night at Yoshi's that Will called "interesting" was mesmorizing, like NOTHING and I mean NOTHING I have ever experienced before.

  Even though I started my day at 6:30am to take my sister to her Muffins for Mom's Day at my nephew & my niece's school, I stayed and hung out with Will for BOTH shows and got home at 1am unable to sleep only able to replay over & over in my head what I had just witnessed. 

  I would venture to say that the music I experienced was all improvisational based on Charnette's new cd. So each song, i would imagine, although remains titled the same, I doubt sounds the same as the cd. I'll tell you all about it but in my own words and remember I do not know or use the "music writer's" lingo because I am not that. I am simply a writer who uses the words she feels to express what she means.

  What this trio does together is unreal! Charnette plays 3 different basses. On the upright he plays it like a cello at times and uses this "picking" technique with his bow and creates sounds from ordinary notes that I personally never knew were possible on a bass and then he brings in Steven Scott on keys/piano as well as Will Calhoun and good god almighty I mean WOW!!! I wanted to crawl out of my skin with desire and longing to just be closer, to breathe more of it in, to taste it and be wrapped in it....

  Let me put it to you this way, I arrived not having eaten all day but a banana, so naturally I was starving, but the fries were too crispy, the wrapper on my kobe burger made too much noise, I just couldn't eat, because it would break the spell of sound. For those of you that know me, me not eat???

  During "We Praise" it feels like you are simultaneously dropped into a soundtrack, then a video game and a symphonic avant garde concert all while dancing in the rain in Cuba and THEN in certain key quiet moments it was like walking down the cobblestone paths in Avignon, peaceful serene and gorgeously filled with a single solitary note that lingers and lingers....I kid you not! 

  In the first show Will played this "wave" drum(?) (all I know it has loops and a bit of this electronic but subtle force, which works for me, the subtle part of it) It was cool, deep and resonated in my heart, in my body.Will Cahoun also played a wooden flute and all of a sudden we were transported to a time before clocks & watches before any modern measurement of time... it was a tribal and primal sound and at the same time regal and elegant. He used this technique where he was not breathing IN to the flute but actually taking the sound out of it by INHALING, or rather sucking the air out it. He was physically redirecting the flow of sound and manipulating it to do his will (pun intended)...it was such a private intimate moment and it was incredibly sensual, yet sacred, alluring almost too intimate at least for me. It was sheer genius & it was magic and it was unreal, almost not humanly possible...

  During another song called "The Story" I was literally wide awake but in a trance, and I had what most would call an "out of body" experience. There have been two other times I have felt this type of magic. Once while I was in Cuba at a Santeria house & ritual and once when I was at the Alladin Theatre in Portland at my 4th or 5th Al Dimeola show when he played Race with the Devil with his then new, bassist Victor Morales (from Cuba) who had never heard that song before.

  I am an ordinary girl living an extraordinary and I do mean EXTRAordinary life...i am so grateful to have friends like Will Calhoun who are able to open my heart and my imagination beyond my wildest expectations!!!http://www.milagromusic.com

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