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Bubbles in a River

from Pocket Guides by Ben Morris

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"Imagine time as a river, and that we are flying high above it in an airplane. Far below you can just make out the mountain caves of the mammoth-hunters, and the steppes where the first cereals grew. Those distant dots are the pyramids and the tower of Babel. But in front of us, there is nothing but mist, mist that is dense and impenetrable. Now let us quickly drop down in our plane towards the river. From close up, we can see it is a real river, with rippling waves like the sea. A strong wind is blowing, and there are little crests of foam on the waves. Look carefully at the millions of shimmering white bubbles rising and then vanishing with each wave. For a brief instant they are lifted on the wave’s crest, and then they sink down and are seen no more. We are like that. Each one of us no more than a tiny glimmering thing, a sparkling droplet on the waves of time which flow past beneath us into an unknown, misty future. We leap up, look around us, and before we know it, we vanish again. And what we call our fate is no more than our struggle in that great multitude of droplets in the rise and fall of one wave.”

—E.H. Gombrich, in A Little History of the World (1935, Yale University Press)

credits

from Pocket Guides, released June 17, 2022
David Bernot — alto and tenor saxophones, flute
Juan Gabriel Olivares — bass clarinet
Derek Ganong — trumpet
Magnus Murphy Joelson — trombone
Jack Bogard — violin
Zosha Warpeha — violin
Joy Adams — cello
Jonah Udall — guitar
Ben Morris — piano
Dan Montgomery — bass
Evan Hyde — drums
Sam Gautier — percussion
John Boggs — voice

Composed, arranged, and produced by Ben Morris (ASCAP)
Text by E.H. Gombrich (1909-2001)

Recorded and mastered by Colin Bricker at Mighty Fine Productions, Denver, CO
Mixed by Loren Dorland and Colin Bricker
Front cover art by Ryan Schröder

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Ben Morris is a composer and jazz pianist whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries.

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