Call It Anything

Miles Davis: Call It Anything* (1)

Miles Davis: Call It Anything* (2)

Miles Davis: Call It Anything* (3)
Miles Davis: Call It Anything* (4)


Sometimes fate is like
a small sandstorm
that keeps changing directions.
You change direction but
the sandstorm chases you.
You turn again,
but the storm adjusts.
Over and over
you play this out,
like some ominous dance
with death just before dawn.
Why? Because this storm
isn't something that blew in
from far away,
something that has nothing
to do with you.
This storm is you.
Something inside of you.
So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.
That's what this storm's all about.
--Haruki Murakami

Cheops Pyramid
above Hermit Rapid
Sagittarius Ridge
above Travertine Canyon
Cheops Pyramid and Zoroaster Temple

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

*When asked the name of the music in his 38 minute set
at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 29, 1970,
Miles Davis said, "Call It Anything."



Miles Davis (trumpet)
Gary Bartz (sax)
Chick Corea (piano)
Keith Jarrett (organ)
Dave Holland (bass)
Jack DeJohnette (drums)
Airto Moreira (percussion)