A jazz trio for piano, bass and drums is my new realisation for my 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' project. "Alone on a wide wide sea" is concluded xenochronically by a fragment of "The Albatross" -- another piece that I wrote for the 'Rime'. You can find that and all the other tracks of this project on my albums 'Unknow' and 'Eidon' (https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/unknow, https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/eidon).
"He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small"
(S. T. Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", Part VII)
Every once in a while I write music for existing films; Films that moved me and left something behind. This is the case for this music, "The Gate". When I close my eyes and stop thinking about the world-outside, this music opens the doors of the Inugami Palace for me. It is evening but there is still light; the surface of the lake reveals the presence of a gentle wind, caressing its waters. But the mild scenery is only an illusion. In fact, a different and stronger agitation can be felt in the air, anticipating unexpected and dramatic events. It's "The Inugami Family," by Ichikawa Kon.
Wonderful reddit post pointing out something Mingus wrote in 1955... "It seems so hard for some of us to grow up mentally just enough to realize that there are other persons of flesh and bone, just like us, on this great, big earth..."