Bill Bruford’s Earthworks - Revel Without A Pause (Live In Santiago 2002)

This is from another concert on Earthworks’ lightning-fast 2002 tour of South America. Most of the music on the trip was taken from the album ‘The Sound of Surprise’, with saxophonist Patrick Clahar replaced here by Tim Garland, with Steve Hamilton piano and Mark Hodgson on bass. The song steams along with a steady rhythmic flow, such that you don’t really think of it as in an odd meter. By now, 5/4 has becomes the band’s 4/4. I’m really beginning to enjoy writing these descriptions. I’ve spilt a lot of ink describing some 140 videos. It’s interesting trying to explain myself to you, the unseen reader, whom, if you have read this far, I take to be interested. And trying to explain myself to myself. Why did I do what I did when I did it, with those people, at that time? Creativity is all about doing things; agency and action. The point is to try to convey something from my perspective about the drums, the drumming and the drummer, and the broader context in which the music was performed that acc