Join renowned artist, Dave McKean, and Italian pianist, Stefano Bollani for an enlightening conversation on Podsongs covering their shared interests in art, jazz, and literature. The two creatives explore the intricacies of music creation and appreciation. Insights include their artistic journeys, perspectives on music education, experiences with film scores, the impact of regional dialects on music, and their love for various music styles such as jazz and Brazil's Bossa Nova. Personal stories of inspirations, challenges, and the magic of matching music to films make it a must-watch for arts and music enthusiasts. A perfect blend of shared passion, engaging creativity, and intellectual conversation on the convergence of art and music, which results in the creation of a new song by Dave McKean called 'Coincidentals'.

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LYRICS to 'Coincidentals' by Dave McKean:

His assistants busy themselvesFetching scissors and coloured papersMixing hues of different flavoursPainting blues and greens and purplesCutting stars and squares and circlesBeginning the journeyThrough a thicket of collage and texture and bread andcircusesFrom his bed he considers the surfacesHe remembers his voyagesAnd he watchesHenri watchesHenri’s body is bed boundBut his mind isn’t even earthboundHe cuts into the form of a figureHe places it next to anotherImprovisation,No turning back, no hesitationLetting go to muscle sense and iterationCreativity in the present tenseNo more sitting on the fenceCommit to the compositionAnd he watches…Enrico watches…The kids coming up through the quavers and crotchetsLittle birds with their scales and rhythms and pitchesFinding their voices and hoping to singHe’ll pass on the history, of princes and kingsOf Bix and Miles and the truth and the sophistryOf Chet and Louis and the proof and the mysteryAnd he takes an occasional player under his wingAnd flies through fundamentalsImprovisations and incidentalsAnd he watches…Stefano watches…The silence of the film and the stillness of the manDeadpanBusterKeatonThe girl leavesHis heart heavesHis blank expressionFalls to his knees and then the horizonHe sits.He thinks.Pushing his hatBack on his head.Lost in this moment of loss, the signs he misread,He fails to noticeThe coupling rod on the train that is rising and fallingand that is where his seat isHe bobs up and down as his dignity decreasesHis stone face flashes a moment of indignation beneathhis…Hat.To acquire learning you need to readBut to gain wisdom you must watchStefano watchesThrough the bars of his cageA cage of bar lines and stavesSomething to break out ofTo fight withTo play withTo push and pull and tear and tickle and sway withAll those accidentalsCo-accidentalsIncidental music for lifeIncidental music for life

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