11 January 2012

I am possibly one or two days away from finishing the new draft of Unwrapped Sky. This makes me quite happy. I'm pleased with this draft. There are a few flaws, some more work to do, but it has taken a great frog-leap forward, I think. Much of this draft was written to the sound of Keith Jarrett improvising, especially the La Scala concert. The first part of this extraordinary improvisation is above, in its full glory. It has a fairly traditional construction: an introverted and classical-flavoured beginning, an experimental avant-garde middle section, a triumphant ending. It's a blend I like in all art: classical and avant-garde mixing. It's also a construction (and mood) which suits Unwrapped Sky and the Caeli-Amur stories more generally, I think.