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The Silence Between the Notes
25 Tracks • One Evening • Pure Clarity
Not a Demo. A Journey.
Tonight is not a sales pitch.
Not a demo.
Not a performance.
It’s a pause.
A reset.
A moment to feel the music the way the artist wanted you to.
This playlist was curated to do one thing:
help you rediscover what good sound can unlock — clarity, emotion, memory, imagination. Whether you came alone or with someone, this experience is yours.
How to Listen Tonight
1. Let the room quiet you.
Don’t chase the music. Let it come to you.
2. Stay curious.
Each track has a question — not a quiz, but a doorway.
3. Notice the small things.
Texture. Breath. Space.
The details that disappear on lesser systems.
4. Take the silence seriously.
After each song, we pause.
This is where meaning shows up.
5. Listen the way you used to.
Before multitasking.
Before noise.
Before speed replaced attention.
THE PLAYLIST
1. Paul Simon — Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Requested: Don chose this because he knows how great it should sound on a real system — the lift, the layering, the joy. He picked it to hear the room come alive.
Question: What simple thing lifted you recently?
Why: Opens the room with warmth and joy.
Moment: 3:05 vocal bloom.
Tidbit: Recorded with Ladysmith Black Mambazo in one marathon session.
2. Kenny Rogers — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
Requested: Tony brought this track because the sonics are shockingly good — the kind nobody talks about. He wants people to hear how overlooked recordings can shine.
Question: What do you carry quietly?
Why: Human vulnerability, gently delivered.
Moment: 1:43 his voice cracks.
Tidbit: Based on the story of a wounded veteran.
3. Jeff Beck — A Day in the Life (Live)
Requested: Rich selected this because Jeff Beck’s take on the Beatles classic is a masterclass — expressive, fearless, unmistakably his. For him, it’s the gold standard of guitar interpretation.
Question: What emotion do you hear first?
Why: The guitar becomes the voice.
Moment: 2:04 note bend confession.
Tidbit: Recorded at Ronnie Scott’s legendary performance.
Instrumental — no lyrics.
4. Traffic — The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Requested: Jon chose this for one reason: the sax. The way it weaves through the mix, grounding and lifting the entire track. It’s a song his friends always ask him to play.
Question: What quietly drains you?
Why: Hypnotic slow-burn reflection.
Moment: 6:50 rebuild.
Tidbit: Title came from a backstage poem.
5. Joe Satriani — Flying in a Blue Dream
Requested: James submitted this because it’s been his reference track since 1998 — the one he’s used to test every system he’s ever built. It’s home base for his ears.
Question: What bold idea are you postponing?
Why: Expansive, dreamlike lift.
Moment: 1:28 ascent.
Tidbit: Inspired by a recurring childhood dream.
Instrumental — no lyrics.
6. Boz Scaggs — Thanks to You
Question: Who quietly steadies you?
Why: Elegant gratitude.
Moment: 3:44 bass + vocal lock.
Tidbit: From his most personal album Dig.
7. Jérôme Sabbagh — Prelude to a Kiss
Question: What do you appreciate in silence?
Why: Intimate detail, breath, texture.
Moment: 0:52 reed catch.
Tidbit: Recorded analog to preserve air.
8. Archie Shepp — Careless Love
Question: What lesson did you learn the hard way?
Why: Raw, weathered truth.
Moment: 1:17 vocal grain.
Tidbit: Tribute to early New Orleans blues.
9. Wyatt / Atzmon / Stephen — Laura
Question: What memory returns like a scent?
Why: Nostalgia in a whisper.
Moment: 2:36 strings rise.
Tidbit: Wyatt intentionally recorded with fragility.
10. Wu Wei — Si dolce è il tormento
Question: What longing feels heavy and beautiful?
Why: Ancient emotion meets modern instrumentation.
Moment: 1:10 overtone bloom.
Tidbit: Text by Monteverdi, 400 years old.
11. Horace Silver — Song for My Father
Question: What shaped you growing up?
Why: Heritage in groove form.
Moment: 0:38 lock-in.
Tidbit: Inspired Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.
Instrumental — no lyrics.
12. Ornette Coleman — Lonely Woman
Question: What emotion do you avoid?
Why: Beautiful discomfort.
Moment: 1:50 harmonic ache.
Tidbit: Inspired by a woman he saw crying in a department store.
Instrumental — no lyrics
13. Santana — Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation
Question: What are you ready to outgrow?
Why: Spiritual reset.
Moment: 2:11 first guitar.
Tidbit: Opens Caravanserai, his transitional album.
Instrumental — atmospheric/spoken intro only
14. Herb Alpert — Happy Hanna
Question: What uncomplicated joy do you forget to feel?
Why: Pure uplift.
Moment: 1:29 groove thickens.
Tidbit: Collaboration with Hugh Masekela.
Instrumental — no lyrics
15. Quincy Jones — What’s Going On?
Question: What needs a new perspective?
Why: Spacious reinterpretation.
Moment: 3:38 string lift.
Tidbit: One of Quincy’s boldest arrangements.
16. Herbie Hancock — Watermelon Man
Question: When did you last surprise yourself?
Why: Funk as intelligence.
Moment: 0:00–0:14 iconic intro.
Tidbit: Intro inspired by Pygmy “beer bottle whistle.”
Instrumental — no lyrics
17. Stevie Wonder — Higher Ground
Question: What did life teach you this year?
Why: Forward motion, redemption.
Moment: 1:46 clavinet fire.
Tidbit: Written and recorded in three days.
18. Donny Hathaway — I Believe to My Soul
Question: What truth did you stop ignoring?
Why: Soul with teeth.
Moment: 2:30 organ swell.
Tidbit: Produced by King Curtis.
19. Gregory Porter — Lonesome Lover
Question: Where do you feel on the outside?
Why: Gentle ache, human warmth.
Moment: 1:12 horn reply.
Tidbit: Porter’s tone echoes Nat King Cole.
20. Esperanza Spalding — ’Til the Next Full (eyes)
Question: What part of you is changing?
Why: Sonic metamorphosis.
Moment: 2:31 rhythmic break.
Tidbit: Each track on the album is a “spell.”
21. Lizz Wright — Freedom
Question: Where have you been stronger than you realized?
Why: Grounded spiritual calm.
Moment: 0:59 vocal lift.
Tidbit: Recorded intentionally dry for intimacy.
22. Meshell Ndegeocello — On the Mountain
Question: What becomes clearer with distance?
Why: Meditative ascent.
Moment: 3:11 bass deepens.
Tidbit: Inspired by James Baldwin’s writing.
23. D’Angelo — Sugah Daddy
Question: What needs more play, less structure?
Why: Loose, swaggering groove.
Moment: 0:45 horn tease.
Tidbit: Almost entirely live takes.
24. Natalie Merchant — Carnival
Requested: Jay loves this one for its ambience — the natural acoustic space inside the recording. He chose it because a great system reveals all the air most people never notice.
Question: What did you only recently see clearly?
Why: Reflective storytelling.
Moment: 3:20 string reveal.
Tidbit: Written during her early solo transition.
25. Peter Gabriel — Mercy Street
Requested: Jon chose this for one reason: the sax. The way it weaves through the mix, grounding and lifting the entire track. It’s a song his friends always ask him to
Question: What part of you still needs gentleness?
Why: Shadows, depth, truth.
Moment: 2:32 vocal cocoon.
Tidbit: Inspired by Anne Sexton’s dream journals.
Thank you for listening — fully, intentionally, together.
If something in these 25 tracks slowed you down, softened you,
or reminded you what good sound can unlock…
Hold onto that.
Moments like this are rare.
What they reveal lasts much longer.
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