关于我的朋友  Micheal Adkins   他的专栏:Micheal Adkins

Micheal Adkins: She is a great flower shining in my window like the sun ......bird song singing...oh what Love ! She is the ART.
You are a great talent in all you do and I'm so glad we have met.(她是一朵华丽的花在我的窗口，象阳光一样夺目……歌唱…… 怎么不爱？ 她就是艺术。你有很多才能做你所做的，我很高兴我们能认识)

lilyma:Oh, you are best, everyday talk with me about ARTS! WOW~Me too. Nice too met you too. Nice too know you! Monster!(每天跟我谈论艺术，画，音乐，电影……我也是，很高兴认识你。很高兴知道你，听你的音乐。怪物！)

写给他自己的Saxophone：

Instrument: Saxophone 

Make sign, makeshift, making, mending.      

Suspending into never ending derail, detail.    

Obsolete.     

Sorting to rehearsal. Note. flying purple.    

Beside sorting.      

Sifting.       

Flipping.   to you, over, you.      

Flipping for you. Into into.    

Suspending ....

Into never ending...  

Into you     

Mainstream means to compose the thorough fare landing obtusely not on my back door seething bacon planter parrot hotel dementing crossfire lead.........Seems a mystery to me.............Gone eavesdrop repercussive tangent integral boost.................Seems cold and distant.........Languid damp pedal smear..........Octagonal tensing tone.........Effervescent pretext detonating overflight lipstick matchbox cigarette filter paper stand.............That's my hangout.........Left not building pencil time elastic onion parlour shoe............Exhales...........Horning into herring side step yellow comedian people tensemortar pistol overflow..............Don't hurt me............Going gone penchant mouse muscle flex...............I feel much better now..............Sonic dressing turkey mouse party  peanut  tank pooling blanket..................Let's just hail a cab instead........Noxious ouch teething curb eaten lunar landing...............It's always faster..........Medical tire engine bell femar split potato couch coin drop................ Fifty-first and Madison.............Seatbelt plug biscuit piano jelly mix............Move over I need more room...................Melting shout identification embassy passport jump.............I'll never do that again..................Waving banana blender mom museum pass..............Yellow grinding transplant cheese day cracker walk.............Oh it's all the same to me..........It's all the same to me.........to me ......to ........me.

Remembering the line of frames in mind with tiles glued on getting between my fingers stuck and struck in seven years of sand storm blowing sticks into bones laying me bare and twisting my soul in two.         Parting the way blowing trumpet blares blasting salt on my mind droning thunder from inside out. Ceasing, dark sighing to bedrocks below me. Crevices , sort, delay. Movement perish no more. Breathe inside. Hollow below hold moments memory and mother's delight from cracking. Killing the stones with yellow eyes and pounding the desires death from windows flashing. Staying way away from portals that pierce. Flex and fold. Migrating  unkown barriers and bolting transit. System loom, loss deliverance allowed. Pattern pattern more pattern. The porch light bends to stretch the cry in the valley where dead poets live. Fields of green grass blow in the wind smoking pipes smooth the signs of living alive in the sky. Exaltation lies awake.Test, taking and standing on frog's legs and flying feet. Bloom to see sideline tense withered broom below. Press to make the mandarin slow. Flex and fold. Pattern pattern more pattern.     2003.May 8th Michael

It was building on a foundation...... a sure rock was leading nowhere.......smooth sailing into the wind.......turning aside all tertiary.......and setting the record straight.....applause please.......oh yes .....you must move aside.......grumble  you woe begone.....annihilate the blister.....replicate the splendor......and don't forget to feed the dog......and move I said........that was mrs. Higgins famous line .......next door to the rhubarb patch.........she used to go there but wouldn't tell a soul........late september........we could see the dew........applause please............. it was building on a sure  foundation.    　 　 他寄给了我一张他新出的CD，很不错，大家也都很喜欢！ 我们商量了下，也许在片子里可以用他的音乐。 希望将来可以合作 lilyma 马莉

Don’t tell too much about yourself on your website to keep things interesting may spring to your mind when you follow the links in my review of Michael Adkins’ Infotation album to his website and his label’s site. Well, here’s your chance to know more about the man who’ve impressed me with his debut album full of original compositions.

Q: Please tell me something about your musical influences and your musical journey so far.

Michael Adkins: Well, in terms of influences I would have to mention my early musical inspiration. We always had a piano and in my neighborhood it seemed like every kid on the block played a musical instrument. Our neighbors across the street were professional musicians and my grandfather could play many different instruments, could sing, entertain, and do this stuff that I thought was unbelievable. My older sister played saxophone and my brother took guitar lessons as a youngster and I would go to their school band rehearsals, just sitting in the back listening. They had an incredible school band and I was in love with the drums at this time. My older sister’s boyfriend was also a tenor player and a huge John Coltrane fan. That’s how I was exposed to improvising music. I idolized all these older kids that were totally into jazz and my teachers would tell me stories about these wildly creative musicians who would shave their heads and stay indoors just practicing like jazz monks or something, and I would get all inspired. I started buying the recordings, really listening and getting engrossed in it. It became an escape for me. As I played more and more I met other musicians who were extremely gifted and creative people. I learned so much from them. I was very fortunate to be around many musicians with incredible skills and integrity. Those were the experiences that were so inspirational for me, spending hours and hours listening to music, practicing together, going to hear live music every night, then being in cities like Boston and New York that offer so much musically. That’s the basis of my experience. I learned that it was possible for an individual to find a completely unique voice in the music and that no solo or no two people could ever sound exactly alike. That was a big attraction for me.

Q: Like I’ve mentioned in my review, I love the cover of your album. Please tell me where you took the cover shot and why you’ve chosen this particular photo as the cover.

Michael Adkins: Thank you so much, I appreciate it and a lot of people comment on it. I’m really happy with the way the album cover work came out. I felt like I had some design ideas that I definitely wanted to steer the artwork towards and was fortunate to be able to do it. The cover photo comes from a building on the upper west side of Manhattan near Riverside Drive. I don’t remember exactly where but there were three or four other totally different photos that I gave to the graphic designers and we bounced these ideas off of each other and decided that the building one was the most appropriate. I gave them these photos and said, ” What do you think? What can we do with this?” It just fit into to the whole experience of the process and felt right, that’s all.

2005.5.11 From:

http://blog.jazz-not-jazz.com/archives/2005/05/11/an-interview-with-michael-adkins/

他的首张专辑的音乐用在了我的《莫莉的内心世界》里。