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A Study (In The Key Of Now)

by Robert Mitchell

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A STUDY (IN THE KEY OF NOW)

I decided to craft a liner note,
On which a poem could gently float,
A tribute to where imagination can go,
If we work on nurturing that natural state of flow.

You know - the daydream that just won’t obey,
That gaze out the window (whose timing isn’t ok),
The place you would rather be instead of where you are,
The inner state that strongly withstood all those institutional scars.

A world undefined by status, looks, and fashion,
A realm of infinite expansion dependant on the depth of one’s passion,
A trance in which the body is the exposed part of a cosmic dance,
All in the service of revealing one moment, one chance.

So through the resonance of a historic hall,
Containing the memory of a prophet's speech,
Whose message we still need to obey and urgently heed its call,
The air retaining a fraction of those particles once preached.

There came a study in the key of now,
Through a piano as balanced as ancient stone gravity art,
Allowing conflicting energies to seek council, reach consensus,
Enabling a space for every ear, mind, heart and soul present - to take part.

(C) R.Mitchell 2024

Recorded live at Kings Hall, Newcastle University (UK) on 2nd Nov 2023. The historic hall in which Martin Luther King Jr received an honorary doctorate (the only given to him by the UK) - and then gave one of his very last speeches. Thanks to Prof.Miriam Rezaei, Olivia Cameron, Oskar Cox Jensen, Fred Hollingsworth, Polly Barnes, Jeremy Loucas, Federico Ughi and all at 577!

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released March 20, 2024

Robert Mitchell - Grand Piano (Steinway D)

Recorded November 2, 2023 by Fred Hollingsworth at Kings Hall - Newcastle University (UK)


Cover photograph by Nick Lyons
Graphic design by Mark Smith

All music by Robert Mitchell, Bucks Music Group Ltd (UK)


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577 Records is proud to be celebrating its 23 year anniversary. The label has been producing music since 2001 and has released albums featuring the work of artists from New York and around the world.

The name comes from the address of the house where these concerts first took place (577 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York).

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