Bruford - Borstlap: Two Left Shoes (Bruford - Borstlap: In Concert In Holland, 2004)

Musicians are frequently in the forefront of change: politically (Rock against Racism, Live Aid, political campaigns) and socially, with diversity and inclusivity as unspoken elements of any international performer’s career (Charles Hazelwood’s Paraorchestra, Sly and the Family Stone, Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra). We rub shoulders with diversity and are well aware how difference engenders the creative spark. You don’t have to know someone well to pick up an instrument and play with him or her. If s/he can play, and you can join in, you are already on a collaboration to who-knows-where; one of the great joys of music making. Music can be performed without ‘preparation’, other than in the sense that you have been preparing all your working life for this and similar moments. For Michiel Borstlap and I, it’s the water we swim in. But how do I know we’re seeing the same movie in our heads as the music develops? I don’t know, but I know I need to trust. I was fooling around a bit