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jangle-poets-digest     Tuesday, September 2 2003     Volume 05 : Number 061



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  [JP] Cadence's "Evolve"                             [Nieldsforever@aol.com]

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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:18:16 EDT
From: Nieldsforever@aol.com
Subject: [JP] Cadence's "Evolve"

Cadence's main theme song seems to be "Evolve," so that's where I'll begin 
this occasional series.  "Come down to the beginning from whence it all 
began..."

"Evolve" conjures up its shaman's sorcery on a number of different levels at 
the same time.  First of all, there is the beating of Cadence's drum, and the 
invitations to drum for birth, for heart, for earth and for each other.  The 
rhythm of the drum is very likely the primal, the most primitive, and the 
most 
basic form of human music-making ever devised by our ancestors who lived, 
hobbitlike, so much closer to the earth than we do.

And even as The Kennedys in concert intros to "Sirens" have sung the praises 
of the mother's voice as one of the most primal, most primitive, and most 
basic sensory experiences of the unborn when still in its mother's womb --- 
Cadence evokes the rhythms of life itself as the underlying pattern of rhythm 
that 
gave birth to human music-making in the first place --- the rhythms of day 
and 
night, the "pounding" of the ocean, the "beating" of the mother's heart.  
Cadence calls the earth our "truest mother."  The earth is the "mother of 
invention," the mother of human-made rhythm, the mother of all life, and the 
source of 
the music that fills our lives with so much amazement and mystery.  So 
"Evolve" is a paeon of praise to Mother Earth.

But our earth is not a static, lifeless, unloving world.  Our earth is a 
world of rhythmic change, of growth, and of great wonder and love.  Our world 
*evolves* and is evolving.  And Cadence is sure that we are evolving to a 
place of 
love.  Love is our destination, our destiny.  We can accept this destiny if 
we so choose, by accepting love in all of our living.

Each verse of "Evolve" reflects this sense of being destined for something 
good, as the verses lead to the words "embrace," "grow," and "unite."  
"Evolve" 
was written for a wedding, so the destinations "embrace," "grow," and "unite" 
are doubly appropriate, as a wedding song *and* as a song about all of us, 
married or not, evolving to a place of love.

The final destination of the song is the word "love," arrived at after the 
2-, 3-, or 4-part round which brings the song round full circle, just like 
the 
revolutions of the earth spinning through space and time.  Cadence and 
"Evolve" 
are a living celebration of life, love, joy, earth, and evolution.  Cadence's 
not-so-Silent Evolution: a joyful noise of hand and heart and voices, in 
harmony and uniting, and beating as our hearts beat in the rhythm of life 
itself.

Bruce

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