I've spent a lot of time in the mountains the last couple of years. I have a rotating cast of spots that I like to revisit, but lately I've felt compelled to go off trail. To bush whack and follow game trails and attractive slopes.

Pushing through the manzanita I've so far found one entire structure stocked with booze, a shovel, aspen groves with carvings as old as 1926, a fountain of youth, and a dozen flat sunny spots that will be very nice to lay on when the snow disappears next year. It's funny, all of these places were within a short walk from the spots I knew, and yet they were hidden from me the whole time.

I wonder what else I'm missing.

We're working on our first single from the new album. It's been a long time but I think it's good, so hopefully worth the wait.

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After several graph compositions and early pattern pieces with jazz ensembles in the late '50s and early '60s (see "Concert for Two Pianists and Tape Recorders" and "Ear Piece" in La Monte Young's book An Anthology), Riley invented a whole new music which has since gone under many names (minimal music -- a category often applied to sustained pieces as well -- pattern music, phase music, etc.)

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