02: My Distant Star
03: Anything You Want
04: I Was Made For The Blues
05: Please Stop Hurting Me
06: No Way Out
07: I Keep Thinking Of You
08: Once Upon A Time
09: Cultures
10: Haven't Seen You For A While
11: Don't Bother Calling
12: Wheel Of Life
13: Requeim
14: Nag-a-tivity Blues
15: Living In Poverty
Requiem
Isn't it strange how we'd invariably rather not discuss the one thing that's sure to happen to everyone? Death, (like taxes!), is a subject most will say is best avoided.
Yet we really have no control over when a death will visit us or family and friends, and when it does come to someone we're close to, we find ourselves unable to come to terms with the situation.
I wrote this piece some years ago, upon a friend's death. At the time, it was melancholy and sombre, but over the years I have had occassion to see more funerals, and I've come to the realization that it is not a person's Death that is the event, rather it is his/her Life that is what matters. And so, in Requiem I try to be respectful to a departed soul without indulging in grief. Rather, I try to convey a sense of a spirit departing with a sense of accomplishment.
Being an instrumental piece, it is open to interpretation and sounds and feels different on different days. Personally, I find in it a bit of solace when I play it as I remember many good people I have known who have passed on.
