For musicians recording at Artone, the process speaks to Shorter’s paradox. The levity of liberation vs. the weight of expectation;
Working with Artone Studio, and located above Record Industry pressing plant in Haarlem, Netherlands, Night Dreamer specialises in direct-to-disc recordings – the process by which music
“IT’S A PARADOX, IN A WAY, LIKE YOU’D HAVE IN A DREAM – SOMETHING THAT’S BOTH LIGHT AND HEAVY,” Wayne Shorter muses, speaking to Nat Hentoff for the liner notes of Night Dreamer, his 1964 album and first for Blue Note as a leader.
It is generally held that the evidence indicates that a living organism can only arise from another living being, experiments favouring the view that spontaneous generation does occur having failed to withstand the strictest tests of criticism.
But the conditions on the surface of this globe must have been widely different from those which obtain at the present day, and the question whether life can arise from the non-living to-day is still unanswered.
OUR knowledge of the past history of life upon earth, obtained from studies both of the earth's crust and of the organisms which are found inhabiting it at the present time, suggests that living beings developed from non-living material, the organic from the inorganic.
