Don’t Ever Settle
Don’t ever settle for the ordinary, the mundane, the “normal”.
Get out there and pedal- feel the wind, get ‘whirled away’, find ‘something to dance about’, go ‘lie beside the river’- and sleep ‘by African lakes’- LIVE.
After all, ‘if we are not beautiful, who are we?’
The Riddle
Yes of course- this extraordinary album from The Gardening Club, a project from the fertile mind and spirit of Martin Springett and musical friends…
…But also the riddle of ‘how is it so often we DO settle- when life ‘all at once outran us/ one day altered itself beyond belief’, when ‘all we know is the world/ and that the world goes round and round/ and that the world is why we weep’…
…and why we fall head over heels in love, answer each other with ‘yes and always yes/ all the time singing’- when all around us wheels the infinite sky, the ever-expanding Mystery?
So Let’s Just Pause
We get clues from the art-work (Martin’s) which if you deign to carefully SEE it, involves all the magic, fantasy, horror, beauty, extravagant danger, mystery, and color you might care to imbibe with whatever senses you possess.
There are clues to be gathered from the poetry of Cyril McColgan, which Martin & Co. have wrought into lyrics for this amazing musical and visual extravaganza.
Cyril writes with the spiritual soul of a seeker, a doer, a sensitive person on a quest to encounter and experience.
And of course, the Musicians
Take a moment to consider the chance encounters- the kismet, the serendipity- that brought kindred spirits together, the kinds of musicians and capabilities and interests- however divergent they may have once seemed- and welded these into The Gardening Club in the 21st century.
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Martin Springett was born in Crayford, Kent, England, in 1947. He studied art (that is he learned to play the Guitar) for two semesters at the Brassey School of Art in Hastings, Sussex. He emigrated t..
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