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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

[David:] this is David Crowder calling for the interview that was scheduled

oh. Yeah. Great. Um sorry...I didn't expect you so soon.
Let me...give me a second to get set up here.

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. Made a few around here
and my setup is kinda, you know, technology's a killer right?

uh...well...we'll have to wait and see I guess.

[Andy:] well. Alright. Well. Umm. Well. Hey, get started.
Uh...sorry my notes are...you a little scattered here...
uh...you'll have to me.

mmhmm.

[Andy:] uhmm...I gotta admit I...I don't know much about...
you know...you... You...or the band...
but I've got some friends are big fans and um...

right.

[Andy:] but...uh...anyway...um...alright. Well. Ok. So we go.
Um...so new CD is titled a collision, or...um...3 + 4 = 7 that's..
that's interesting. You the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title thing.

yeah.

[Andy:] uhmm lets see...uh...and the atom on the cover that's

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that great in and.
And math wasn't my...my specialty...which is...which is I guess,
you know, why I'm a now. But uh...

mmhmm.

...anyway um...

ok.

[Andy:] ok. So uh...it...I don't know...is that...it's with the cover...
is that a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it metaphorical for or like, or is it...

well...

[Andy:] ...just or...

...nah. Well I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, it's not really...I mean a symbol.
You see that and you atom.
It shows electrons in elliptical paths around a nucleus and all...we know...

mmhmm.

[David:] ...that's...that's not how an atom works. Or...or even, for that matter...

ok.

[David:] ...and so....and so that's why it was for the cover, you know...

[Andy:] right. Uhmm. Ok. Yeah. I'm not really I see the connection. But...

[David:] ...well...and what we mean to say is that the elements of are inadequate,
much like the depiction. But this is what we have you know?
It us carry the idea.

mmhmm. Mmhmm. Uhmm. Ok. Uh.
Tell...ok...what's the with these little songs between the real...you know, the real songs?
Like are they significant? Uhmm...is there a theme of the album?
Or are they creating space? Like what's...going on

uhmm. I don't...

[Andy:] ok. Uhmm. So you know I hear this really spectacular ending to...
to the is that true?

[David:] have to wait and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it does well?

no. It swells.

oh. Right. It swells. Uhmm. Ok. Well.
And so the end starts with this...this piece "the lark ascending."
Uhmm now what is...what is the
Is that...is also a metaphor for something?

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't you should read too much into any of this you know
It's...I the lark ascending was written...
it was a piece by Vaughn Williams who died in 1958,
and uh, the work opens with this calm set of chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so the violin enters as the lark and it...
it starts this series of ascending and repeated intervals and this...
these nimble elongated arpeggios. Uhmm.
And he actually found inspiration in a work by the English George Meredith
who died in 1909 and the composer included a of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...

wait uh...

[David:] ...of the published

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

[Andy:] ...why do you mentioning...

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the they died?

[David:] ...well it went...and it went like this it uh...

"He rises and to round,

He drops the chain of sound,

Of many links a break,

In chirrup, whistle, and shake.

For till his heaven fills,

love of earth that he instills,

And winging up and up,

Our is his golden cup

And he the which overflows

To us with him as he goes.

Till lost on his rings

In light, and the fancy sings."

huh. Wow. That's nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

[David:] I know.

[Andy:] sorry. I think i've got the page. Uhmm.
The script you gave me says different. It says, "you are."

yeah but I don't...
I don't feel like the lark much of the time and there are other larks for me you know?

wait a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...

yeah.

[Andy:] ...in the script I you're...

right.

[Andy:] ...making a point art does this...

right.

[Andy:] ...you know the whole, it rises on from earth to fill the heavens...

yes.

[Andy:] ...pulling the rest of us it. That as the lark rises so do we."

right. I'm unsure.

[Andy:] but. Uh. on. I mean...it...it says so right here.

yeah. Uhmm. But the ground pulls at my feet.

[Andy:] hold...hold on just a second. Uh but I mean what about the 7?

[David:] did you ever notice that the sky is all the way to the

[Andy:] wait. on. What?

[David:] we're around in it. We're in the sky.
There is sky and is ground and we're somewhere in between.
That is we live.
And sometimes some of us take wing and when do,
their feet leave the ground, even for a second,
they the rest of us with them.
And we rise, and when we rise,
and when we notice the sky has been around us all along.
We have been walking into it. It has been constant collision.
and depravity.
And we rise and we rise and we rise and we and we rise
and we and we rise and we rise and we rise and we rise
and we and we rise and we rise and we rise...