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8. Upcoming Projects
RK: What are some other projects you have on the back burner?
DL: The next release is on a label called Arkadia. It's with Pat Metheny and it's called Water, Giver of Life. I'm portraying the element of water in various manifestations and writing programmatically, which I like to do. So I want to complete the cycle of the four elements over the years on some label or another somehow and the next one I'm looking into is Earth. I have some themes that I have used for a ballet a couple of years ago called The Stones. I don't know what's really going on in general, maybe it's living out in the country (...I've been here in the Poconos for about 10 years...). I see my perspective changing towards outside of me as I mature. But I'm also a very subject-literal minded person. I mean I like a subject. Give me a subject; say "blue" and I paint blue. I see my interests moving away from the personal view, the personal theme which was so much of the first ten, twenty years. It's more of what's around you.
And I've done a record lately called The Tree, a record called Time Immemorial, this water thing, and then Earth and Fire and so forth. I'm trying just to paint the things that are around me in musical. If I have a subject, it makes it much easier for me to get to the heart of the matter rather than just perform a musical exercise (which other guys do very well and I respect that). I like a subject. It could be very literal or figurative, but it really helps me out. So right now I'm going to try and produce a cycle over the next three years.
RK: Great. I have no more questions, but you know it's a funny thing you mentioned Dave Taylor. You remind me of Dave Taylor. You know Dave's from Brooklyn, by the way...
DL: You're Jewish too, right?
RK: I am.
DL: Happy New Year!
RK: Yes, Happy New Year.
DL: Happy year 5,000-something.
RK: Happy 5,734-something. Anything else you want to talk about?
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