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hello.

[David:] yeah, is Andy

uh...this is he.

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

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

no problem.

[Andy:] yeah. Made a few changes around
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 to forgive 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 that are big 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..
interesting. You know the...the...

mmhmm.

[Andy:] ...whole title thing.

yeah.

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

uh huh.

[Andy:] cool. I was...I mean...I was never all that great in and.
And math really 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 like the cover...
is that a metaphor or...uh...I mean is it metaphorical for or like, or is it...

well...

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

[David:] ...nah. I mean. Yeah.
The...uh...atom, not really...I mean it's a symbol.
You see and you think atom.
It shows electrons moving in elliptical paths around a and all...we know...

mmhmm.

[David:] ...that's...that's not how an atom works. Or...or looks even, for 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 sure I see the connection. But...

...well...and what we mean to say is that the elements of worship are inadequate,
much like the atom depiction. But this is we have you know?
It helps us the idea.

mmhmm. Mmhmm. Uhmm. Ok. Uh.
Tell...ok...what's the deal with these little songs between the real...you know, the real
are they significant? Uhmm...is there like 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 there's this really spectacular to...
to the is that true?

[David:] we'll have to and see on that.

swell.

[David:] it swell.

[Andy:] wait...uh it...wait...hold on...it well?

no. It swells.

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

[David:] uhmm. I gue...I I guess. I just...I don't think...
I don't think you should read too into any of this you know
It's...I mean the lark was written...
it was a piece written by Vaughn Williams who in 1958,
and uh, the work with this calm set of sustained chords and then (coughs) sorry.
me. And uhmm.
Anyway and so then the violin enters as the and it...
it starts with 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 in 1909 and the composer included a portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf...

[Andy:] uh...

[David:] ...of the work

....hold on wait...

...uhmm...

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

...and it...

[Andy:] ...the year they

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

"He rises and to round,

He drops the silver of sound,

Of links without 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 wine which

To lift us him as he goes.

Till lost on his aerial

In light, and the fancy sings."

[Andy:] huh. Wow. nice. But I mean...but who is the lark?

I don't know.

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

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

[Andy:] a second. Ok. So correct me if I'm wrong but uhmm...

yeah.

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

right.

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

right.

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

yes.

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

right. I'm unsure.

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

[David:] yeah. Uhmm. But the ground at my feet.

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

did you ever notice that the sky is all the way to the ground?

[Andy:] wait. Hold on.

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