"The Varieties of Musical Experience: A Conversation with Candace English”

“The manifold connections by which one individual touches another can be a quite mysterious and beautiful thing. In the case of our guest Candace English everything starts with this film by a man named Jon Jost called Rembrandt Laughing. I happened to see it on television in the 1980s in the middle of the night, I am going to guess 2:30 AM, that kind of thing, and this little picture touched me very deeply. A composer and instrumentalist Jon English happened to be one of the actors in that film and eventually, as I became a "fan" of Jost's oeuvre, I noticed that this one Jon English composed music for many of Jost's films. When one thing leads to another like this you are definitely on a journey, and you wouldn't be crazy to suspect it is a "guided" one. Jost, of course, was our very first guest on this podcast. Listen to his episode here: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton/episodes/Spirit-of-Independence-A-conversation-with-Jon-Jost-e4rg31 Later on I did a live music session with Bill Fouty the bassist. Bill was impressed that I even knew who Jon English was. He said to me, "well do you know Candace English? You gotta talk with Candace English; she's a good friend of mine." What united these three people was of course the San Francisco of the 80s, but it was also something else a little more ineffable, a love for art itself in all of its forms. I marvel at people like Candace English . I could never really carry a tune with my mouth; she sings some of the most difficult music ever written for a vocalist and pulls it off masterfully and beautifully. She also composes, of course, and probably lots of other things we didn't even get into on our episode. She is equally adept in the classical and jazz styles and was a major figure in the avant-guard music scene. I hope you enjoy listening to this one as its one where I was more than a little surprised by some things I did not know, as you will hear. Candace has been involved in practically every aspect of music and that diversity shows in the topics we discuss on this episode.” Links to Candace’s Beautiful work candacenatvigenglish.com candacenenglish.com musicintheblood.com tinytownpark.com https://soundcloud.com/moonglow-violin