Artist	Song
Toru Takemitsu	Rain-Tree Sketch 3
Colin Vallon	Rouge
Dylan Howe	Subterraneans
Eberhard Weber	Santiago
Dylan Howe	Art Decade
Marcin Wasilewski	Mosaic
Steve Tibbetts	Lochana
Dylan Howe	Moss Garden
Bill Frisell	Fields of Alfalfa
Dylan Howe	Neuköln – Night
Henry Butler	Reflections
Ginger Baker Trio	I Lu Kron
Dylan Howe	Weeping Wall
Christian McBride	EGAD
Metheny, Holland & Haynes	Law Years
Dylan Howe	All Saints
Steve Kuhn	A Likely Story
Pat Metheny & John Scofield	Everybody’s Party
David Bowie	Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)

Comment:

A new ‘elements‘ (ether-jazz) edition that breaks all the rules*. Revolving around Dylan Howe‘s interpretation of David Bowie‘s ‘Low‘ & ‘Heroes‘ ambient tracks, Subterranean: New Designs On Bowie’s Berlin, the challenge was to make a stand-alone Jazz mix, while reflecting Howe’s interpretation & bringing it out within the scope of the other selected tracks.

I created a Workbook in Evernote, and, listening via my car’s aduio system, or via earbuds or Bluetooth earpiece while out & about, would reference & jot down (digitally) artist’s and/or specific tracks that would complete the project.Progressing this way for about a week or so…the project slowly took shape with the cover art being nothing more than an Illustrator radial blur of the original Howe album cover.

Hats off to Dylan Howe for this extremely well done, gorgeous interpretation of tracks & for the resultant inspiration for this 112+ minute series magnum opus & the l@bs’ kick-off for 2015 (with a closer by the maestro* himself!)

D/L: Mix on 5 tracks, artwork & playlist:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jr6bwak60bwkwyi/elements_sub.zip?dl=0

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